Official lessons ended on 12th Jun so we had Fri, 13th Jun free. Monica, Beetsma, Emily, Calvin and I decided to go to Bodensee (Lake Constance). Heard it's beautiful. Decided to buy the Badenwuerttemburg Laender ticket which allowed us to travel up to a maximum of 5 in a group to anywhere in Badenwuerttemburg. So we happily happily bought breakfast and the ticket and boarded the 8.04am or 8.14 train(cannot rmb) towards Konstanz. And as we were talking about conductors checking ticket, a conductor came. We happily showed our ticket to him (cos the 1st day in Germany, my frens and I oso bought a group ticket and it went MISSING! and we had to buy another 1. but this time we HAVE the ticket!).

Den he said in german that this ticket only allow us to take trains from 9am onwards and asked us to alight at the nxt stop. Den we were super sian. We hoped and prayed that when the train reach the nxt stop, it'll be 9am already. At 8.38am, the train reached Boeblingen station. We had to alight. And guess wad. We're still in STUTTGART. The same city where we were living in. We're not even out of the city. my god! and thanks to this wonderful machine (tada..the one below)

we just nidda type our starting station and destination station and it'll show u all the different train connections. which station to alight to change to another train and which track the connecting train is leaving from. and wad's more, if u don hav a pen or paper or hp or wadever to take it down, u can PRINT THE INFO OUT!! haha. it's absolutely WONDERFUL when u're lost and like us, suddenly havta alight and not knowing when is the nxt train. so we checked and the nxt train to Konstanz was 10.38am. WAD?! 2hrs wait!! We didn't wan to wait so we decided to take a train to Ulm (quite a nice town too) walked around for an hour and catch another train from Ulm to Radolfzell den another train to Konstanz. Bo bian. though nidda change many times but better den waiting for 2 hrs in STUTTGART. At least we're going to cover another town. haha

calvin and his weird looking cookie. haha. look like him~~hehe :p

that day was a cold day. windy. my strawberry cardigan (red cardigan) was not enuff. so borrowed calvin's thick blue jacket so i'm officially blue berry!! haha

taken on the train. cos nth to do. so take photos of the 2 heart shaped cherries!! haha look gd and tasted gd too!

After about an hr of train, we finally reached Ulm. town with the world's tallest cathedral and birth place of Einstein.

walking towards the tallest cathedral on Earth.

in front of the tallest cathedral. but, my cam don hav wide lens so couldn't capture everything.

see drawing ba. mayb u'll figure out how tall it really is (:

below are pics taken inside the cathedral.

after about an hour of exploration of Ulm. we nidda catch the connecting train to Radolfzell.

this was taken on the train. not Bodensee yet i guess.

and we reached Radolfzell. i was shocked by the lok kok signboards at the stations. nv seen such old signboards in my 1 month stay in Germany. Below are pics taken during my few minutes at Radolfzell. cos there's another train to catch b4 I reach Konstanz.

and here I am. KONSTANZ. like after such a long journey i'm finally here. we walked around a bit and decided to take a ferry ride around Bodensee. the ride costed 6 Euros. not cheap. but the view not bad. below are the photos.

the ferry we took.

Me and wassermelon Monica. she's watermelon cos her jacket black background and green strips look like watermelon.

more fruits to intro. the one in orange is peach Beetsma. and blackberries Emily and Calvin. Fruity outing. haha

there's almost no difference between the sea and the sky!

after the 45min ferry ride, we only hav like an hour or less for the town Konstanz. so did fast shopping. bot some cheap goods. haha and dinner to be eaten on the train and had to wave goodbye to Konstanz. below are the pics taken of the town.

In conclusion, most of my time that day was spent on trains. took like 7 trains in all. and spent so little time at Ulm and Konstanz. Maybe can choose uni in either of these 2 towns and spent my exchange programme time there. Beautiful yea?