DB Reise!

Living a month in Heidelberg, traffic is of course an essential element should be mentioned!
Even it’s absolutely a great pleasure walking on Heidelberg streets.
But if you have classes starting from nine in the morning, you still need to take busses

Usually, it takes 1 Euro per bus trip
School will offer you Semesterkarte- 40 Euro for you to take busses as many times as you want in one month
Besides, it’s not only be used for busses but also for S-Bahn and Strassen- Bahn (like LRV), so it’s quite cost effective

This bus card is like your amulet; bus drivers won’t examine whether you have the card or not
But sometimes, irregular police officers get on and check if you have the card or not
Once you break the law, you need to pay 40 times of the original price. That is 1600 Euro!!!




Train
In Germany, the railway is called DB (Deutsche-Bahn)
ICE is the fast but the most expensive one

There’re various train types in Germany
If you want to take train traveling around Germany
You can go to Tourist-Information in the train station and get more ideas about it

If you are going to plan a German trip, http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en
This can help you to arrange about the time

Moreover, my suggestion is it’s better for you to buy the ticket in Germany, not book the tickets here in Taiwan. ^^