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the setup: i had a eurail pass which was good for nearly any train in switzerland, italy, germany, and france. i was in venice during carnivale, which meant that hotels/hostels were filled. i couldn't get a room on saturday night, but had hostels booked for friday, sunday, and monday nights.
my solution to this problem was to take a train saturday night and sleep on that, taking another train back to venice in the morning. i picked a train that went into switzerland which i thought would be a long enough ride for me to get a decent night's sleep. that all was fine, but unfortunately for me the train split up in the middle of the night. i woke up at 5:30 in the morning in austria and had to pay for the ride into austria and the ride back out of austria.
on the bright side, my stop in austria was innsbruck which happens to be in the middle of the alps -- ridiculously cool.
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