Stuck in Bordeaux

After a frustrating morning at the train station, we were trying to leave on a 2:30 train to Nice, but it was all full. Well, not really, I found out that our rail pass doesn't really matter. The only save so many seats for rail pass holders, which is crap, so the kind lady at the ticket counter offered us 2 seats @ 120 euros a pop. Thanks, but no thanks. Anyways, my French train experience only got worse later in the day, I'll get back to that later.

Train Lady Take 2

After we got back from our vineyard excursion, I went to try and book a train for tomorrow. This was quite the ordeal...

#1 These people speak almost no English.
#2 They don't care about helping you.
#3 They lack ANY problem solving skills.
#4 Monkeys could do a better job than them.

So, the first thing I asked for was just a timetable of all the trains leaving from Bordeaux, unfortunately this kinda of thing doesn't exist in France. I've seen these kinda of tables all throughout Europe from the tiniest to the biggest stations, but not here. Ok, so scratch that idea. I try and book the same train the next day and its "Completo" as well, so I try to explain to the lady that I just need to go east on ANY train, she tells me the next train is Thursday, 5 days from now. GUH.

Thinking that she was new or something, I decide to try a different ticket person. Uh...not much luck here either. So I problem solve on my own, I just picked the next closest city and asked for a train there... Viola, it's available, plus we can even connect to Nice from there and get there at the same time. You would think these people would think of these kinda of things, since all they do ALL day long is sell tickets. But no.

Rant Over.

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