What time is it? And where am I?

I left for my journey right on time, or so I thought. I misread the 24-hour clock that everyone uses here and actually left an hour earlier than I need to -- no wonder I was so rushed! While waiting for my next train at the Aachen main station, I set my clock a little ahead so as to be on time. As it turns out, I was turned around -- I set my clock a little late and I was late for my second and third trains and could not figure out why... Once the clock situation was rectified, I was on my way to Cologne.

I had a two hour layover in Cologne and checked out the Cathedral. It is rumored to be the largest in Europe, and I had my doubts before I went in. It is massive -- but that is about it, as far as I am concerned.

Well, all was going according to plan -- I made all of the rest of my train connections and was relaxing into my trip. I arrived in Munich and checked with the conductor, asking which car I should get on to head to Budapest. He said "one of the next cars." So, I got on the next car which had lights on (the others were dark because people were sleeping -- it was midnight). I got all settled, had my ticket checked, and got ready to take a really long nap. At 2:30 (roughly an hour after finally falling asleep), I was awoken by a conductor asking where I was going. "Budapest" I responded. He said that the train was going to CROATIA -- Zagreb, to be more precise. Given that I did not have a ticket to go to CROATIA, I was kindly asked to get off the train at the next stop, in some town I did not (and still do not) know. As it turns out, the train split in two at Salzburg, and I was on the wrong half!

Well, as luck would have it, a train heading to Vienna stopped by this small station (which is still a mysterious place to me -- maybe it was a dream?) and I hopped on board there. The problem was that I was to meet my professor's daughter in Budapest at 9am -- 5 hours from the point I got on the train. There was no way that I was going to make it there on time and my cell phone did not work. So, I was a bit panicked and did not sleep much the rest of the night/morning... But at least I was on a train heading in the right direction!