What a disaster, after landing at Frankfurt Airport, the plan was to catch an S-Bahn train to the Hauptbahnhop, that is the central station. The plan was sound, the execution was flawed as we headed off in the wrong direction.

Around the fourth stop we had realised the mistake and stepped off at a desolate platform at that time of night. Opelwerk is an unusual name but once we were standing alone on the platform and could see the tall Opel building not far from the station, the name of the station made perfect sense.

I thought the best option was to step across the platform and pick up a train going in the opposite direction. This is not necessarily the best option, we really needed to first check the train timetables and stops, after a sixteen hour flight and working right up to the flight, I wasn’t feeling the greatest so I wasn’t moving around too much.

That was a mistake, we needed either the S7 or the S9 trains, the first one didn’t stop at that platform, what next? Move platforms and the train stops at the platform you were just standing at? As it turns out, a lone woman arrived at the platform and she was willing to assist with directions. We didn’t have much time, but we were able to get over and get on the correct platform when our train arrived. Thankfully, the night turned out all right after all.