Day 38: Train Rides Home and a Movie

As promised, a second post for the day!

We had a lovely breakfast at our hotel in Cölbe this morning before making our way to the train station. We caught a regional train to Willingen, which was a delightful multi-hour ride. From Willingen, we caught a different regional train to Dortmund Hauptbahnhof. By this point, I wasn’t super hungry, but it was lunchtime. Brandon hadn’t eaten as much at breakfast as I had, so he had a little more of an appetite. We grabbed a small snack and drink at Dortmund, then hopped our final regional train to Bochum.

In Bochum, we got lunch at KFC since it was at the station (I didn’t feel like dragging our luggage somewhere else…plus it’s Sunday so the options for open places was limited). IT was okay. The ordering process was frustrating because we tried using the screens and it wouldn’t let us pay at the end, but it also wouldn’t print a ticket so we could pay at the counter. At the counter, the meal options were not the same as on the screen, either. It was confusing and a little aggravating, but it was food.

In Bochum, we got the Straßenbahn back to Hattingen. Thankfully, the Rolladen weren’t down in the back, so we cam in through the downstairs area we are sleeping in rather than bringing all our things down the stairs by coming in the front door. We threw our dirty laundry in the washing machine and sat on the couch to play some cards. Brandon beat me at rummy, which made me sad :/

Around dinner time, we headed to Essen. We weren’t eating dinner, but we were going to go see Thor: Love and Thunder. There was an English screening, and I enjoy the Marvel movies, so Brandon got us tickets! The movie was good, a bit goofy, but good. Afterwards, we hopped another series of familiar trains back to Hattingen and then got ready for bed. It was a long, but lovely day :)

I have next to no pictures for today, but enjoy these two, which show a tactile model I found in Bochum Hauptbahnhof of the station layout, as well as the sky outside the theater. It was still pretty light, even at 9:30 pm!