Metzingen, Germany - Outlet City

Part 2

The journey to Metzingen was supposed to be a day trip as we are planning to go Mt. Pizol for skiing and sledging on Sunday. We timed our shopping so we can catch the last train out and reach Zurich latest by 9pm but then again at Horb we discovered the connection train got delayed for 20minutes because of an accident. From 20mins it becomes 45minutes and then nearly 3hours! Apparently someone decided to commit suicide by jumping to a moving train…what?! Of all the options, that person could have pick a less dramatic and painful way…So the railways have to be close, to collect the remaining (if any) and to ensure tracks are safe for usage.

By then it is dark and freezing cold so we have to seek refuge at the nearest bar. We are also penniless since we only carry Swiss Franc and forgot to exchange to Euro, we only have loose change to buy us hot chocolate. The whole situation is a chaos as the police keep on saying “don’t know” and the railway operators keep saying trains got delayed and with no tentative time when they will resumes operation. They did provide 3 shuttle buses to go to the next town Doverhohf , with a working station but it is not enough to commute everyone and it seems everyone is being selfish and try to get on despite giving us who are traveling with young kids. 

The taxi wants to charge us EU200 (potong kepala punya style!) but then except neither Francs nor cards. We even plan if the train to Stuttgart resumes operation earlier than our connections, we will spend the nights there since it is big city with more options but everything seems to stand still. So basically, we are stuck in a small town in Germany late at night and penniless! To make it worse, the kids are hungry sleepy and freezing, it is -12 degrees that night and Isya, my sister youngest daughter started having panic attack, feverish and non-stop vomiting. 

Finally the trains resume operation around 11pm but we need to change trains 3 times but in the end we safely reached home around 3pm, alhamdullilah. The next day, we just went to Zurich town instead to the mountain as everyone end up waking up late. Lesson learned; always have EURO currency ready when in EU regions.