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 Tuesday 12 September For the last time we got the tram from Jean Jaunes stop to Gare Central and caught the 9.50 2 coach train to Appenweier. There is precisely bugger-all at Appenweier, and we had to wait 50 minutes for the Karlsruhe train, which was 10 minutes late. We sat next to 2 German ladies on there way to see a Tina Turner show in Stuttgart. They assured us that German trains are often late or cancelled, which made me feel better, I think they called it Schadenfreude.  At Karlsruhe we raced to platform 7 and got on the Munich high speed train with 5 minutes to spare. Phew. Twas a very pleasant journey on the fast train, at one time we were going at 250kph. high-speed Tintin hair Munich station had the biggest model railway shop I have ever seen. The prices are eyewatering, the tiny trains are hundreds of euros each. I liked this tiny model of a wedding couple on a Scooter.  At the station in Munich we found the S Bahn platform for Oberschliesenheim where the Air...