20.07.2015: Journey

Journey

When Merlin and Ulrich arrived at Munich airport in the morning, some of the other participants had already flown in or arrived within minutes. Ayanda from South Africa could be located and guided to the meeting point by means of repeated cell-phone calls. Then Kaius from Estonia, Leda from Cyprus and Olivia from Bangladesh showed up at the S-Bahn box office, our first meeting point.
Soon afterwards Kamil from Poland and Esra from Turkey arrived and we were ready to travel by S-Bahn, the airport commuter train, to the next meeting point which was the railway station Munich-East. There we would meet Annelie and Justus who were already in the train from Berlin to Innsbruck, the train that would take the entire group to Austria. While we were waiting on the platform of Munich-East, Lucia arrived and then we received a panic-call from Astrid who was sitting in a train heading to Munich and her train was late. She would probably miss our train to Innsbruck. There were some moments of tension indeed, but with the Innsbruck train visibly approaching our station we saw Astrid jumping up staircases and the group was finally complete.

Gepatschhaus

Travelling through the beautiful landscape of Bavaria and then Austria Annelie and Justus met us in our compartment and at Innsbruck-station we were met by Kristin. The next train took us all to Landeck where a bus was already waiting for us. It took us up the winding mountain road towards Gepatschhaus (Photo). While passing the huge dam that closes the northern end of the Gepatsch-Lake we could already see the glacier blinking in the distance. Just before 8.00 pm we arrived at our destination, the beautiful Gepatschhaus and were met by Arne the I.C.E. camp leader who had already arrived by car. Soon we settled into our rooms and then enjoyed a tasty evening meal. Then everybody went to bed after an exhausting but also very exciting day.
Ulrich (Germany)