2010-02-28 48 8
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In the black forest, south of Gaistal, a part of Bad Herrenalb
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The bus stop Bernbacher Weg is loacted conveniently close to the hashpoint, about 1 kilometer. The problem is, buses there only go every two hours, on 9:28, 11:28, 13:28, 15:28 and 17:28. As I didn't want to tisk missing the last one and having to walk back, I decided to take the second to last back at 15:28, meaning to arrive with the one at 13:28, meaning I had to leave my home at about 12:00.
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The way there went without any problems. I arrived at 13:30 at the bus stop in the middle of nowhere, walked to the hashpoint, struggled through the forest and through about halb a meter deep snow for a few hundred meters, arrived at 14:00, built a snowman, was back at the bus stop by 14:45 and waited.
At 15:28, the bus didn't arrive. Neither did it until 16:00, when I decided to walk to the next stop. In the end, I walked all the way back to Bad Herrenalb, always hoping the bus would still come, which it didn't.
Not far from Bad Herrenalb, I realized there was a train set to go back to Karlsruhe in a few minutes, so I started running. A car stopped and they offered to drive me the last 1.5 kilometers to the station. I gladly accepted, got off at the station, only to find a crowd of confused and upset people there. The heavy wind had knocked down a power line, leaving parts of Bad Herrenalb and also the railway without power. As it turned out, the bus supposed to go to Gaistal was now used as a rail replacement and as there were no spare buses available, the 15:28 bus didn't go at all.
Eventually, a replacement bus to Karlsruhe arrived (in fact it was the same one I used to go up to Gaistal before), which was horribly overcrowded, took me to Busenbach, where I changed into an S11 back to Karlsruhe, arriving at home at 18:30, 1.5 hours later as planned.
