Wednesday night came and went with no lottery win. They really were screwed. They had to get up the next day, check out and catch a train to Berlin at 12.45pm. If they were lucky they might get a brief chance to look up the internet at the hotel before they left. Only trouble was they only had enough money for maybe 1 or 2 nights at a cheap hotel in Berlin.
They checked out Thursday morning and left their luggage at the hotel, and with a bit of time to spare, took a walk to the area near the train station, and tried buying a scratch card. They kept winning 2 Euros and buying another with it. This went on and on until they had to go back to the hotel for their backpacks resigned to showing up in Berlin and looking for a place to stay there.
With about 15 mins to spare they hopped onto the PC there. Kate discovered her debit card had been refunded the money that morning from the Paris hotel they'd cancelled a month ago and then within minutes of looking, their old friend Citadines came to the rescue with a 50% reduced rate. There was no decision to be made.
So with 30 mins till their train departed they now suddenly had a place to stay and Berlin was back on.
As they boarded further help came when a German lady abandoned her knitting, jumped out of her seat to get off the train before it departed and help find the correct carriage for their seat numbers.
