Speyer Warnings and Dangers

Be aware that Speyer has only a small railway station which means two ticket counters and at holidays, these tend to be closed, leaving you to battle it out with the ticket vending machines, dreaded even amongst the Germans themselves. They DO work, but bear in mind that here you have a DB machine and a local transport machine and if all you want is to go to Mannheim with the S-train to get to the mainline railways, then you can often not buy tickets from the DB machine so head for the local one at once. Also be aware that these machines do accept cards but that you need to have very "un-damaged" cards. The slightest "cash machine made it wobbly" cards and it won't accept them.

Strolling across the Domplatz, be aware that cars can come at you at quite some speed. What you think is a cobbled square to walk across in fact includes a street and there is no elevated pavement or anything to show you this, just stone bollards to direct traffic into the narrow lane.