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Europe 2022 {Day 5 ~ Aachen & Köln}

 On Friday, December 16th I switched countries again.  I walked to the train station and all of my good train mojo from the days prior went out the window and there was a bit of a snafu that resulted in me sitting in a Brussels train station (not the one a block from my hotel) for 2 hours waiting on my train.  Luckily there was an Au Bon Pain where I could get something to eat and sit while I waited.  I had two stops planned for this day.  First stop was in Aachen, Germany.   Since Aachen isn't a town that everyone is familiar with, here is a map.  You can see Aachen is right where the borders of Germany, Belgium, and The Netherlands meet. I was so happy to finally be on a train, I took a pic!  It was about an hour and 20 minutes from Brussels to Aachen. Since I wasn't staying overnight in Aachen, I got a luggage locker for the day at the train station in Aachen.  This is one reason I was worried about getting delayed in Brussels and when I a...