We were up very early this morning. We were going to have to catch the 09:10 to Jenbach if we were to make the steam train to Mayrhofen, today's official excursion. However, given how packed out the bus had been on Monday, we decided we would get the bus an hour earlier, then change to the Pertisau-bound bus and stay on it to Jenbach. This would have worked better had the driver not been a complete jobsworth who insisted we disembark and wait in the rain for him to come round again. Which we did, although there was some shelter under the edge of the Boathouse. Why we couldn't have waited at the terminus of Karwendelbahn, I will never know. However, the bus wasn't too crowded when Herr Jobsworth finally brought it back round, yelling at people who weren't showing their tickets, and goodness knows what all else....
Of course, it was raining in Jenbach - I am quite convinced that if it ever stopped raining there, the town would vanish! I've never seen it in anything other than rain! We had almost an hour to wait for the train, which was profitably spent drinking coffee in the little café and reminding ourselves of the trip to Mayrhofen that the girls took in "Princess of the Chalet School". Meanwhile, our tickets were obtained for us and in due course we clambered into our reserved coach at the very back of the steam train. The wooden carriage was very beautiful, but I had a severe case of chapelbottom by the time we arrived!
We enjoyed a walk round Mayrhofen, stopping to have a not very nice lunch (at least, mine wasn't - the SW swears his was delicious!) in a random café, and then an utterly delicious ice-cream (actually a sorbet in my case) further along the road. We then walked back to the station in good time for the 14:49. The journey, in greater comfort than that of the outward leg, cost 1/3 as much, but then, it wasn't steam-hauled! Back at Jenbach, the heavens promptly opened and there was a massive thunderstorm. The kind driver - not Herr Jobsworth this time - let us all get on the bus as soon as it arrived, even though it would not be setting off for another few minutes. The bus was soon fuller than it could comfortably hold, but we got to Maurach all right, at which time it turned into the Achenkirch bus, so we had no need to change, and got back to the campsite. The SW is having a nap and snoring very loudly - if it wasn't for the fact that I must get supper in half an hour, I'd follow his example.
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