Just completed my trip from Basel to Duisburg yesterday, for the total cost of €14.25. My itinerary included an obligatory change in Cologne onto another ICE train for the last stretch to Duisburg, but I wished I had just stayed on the original train, would probably have got away with it for this last bit. Cologne station was, yet again, like an East European chaos or, even better, Bangkok bus station, where everything happens according to some unwritten lottery. Why is it such a mess in Cologne? My connecting train just disappeared into thin air, nobody knew anything about it, even the controllers were bamboozled by it. So I just got on the first thing that left for Duisburg, reaching there only 1 hour late amazingly. It's a shame, because Basel to Cologne had been a really good trip, totally punctual (except for some problem in Freiburg Bahnhof with a Fliegerbombe, whatever that was, meaning we didn't stop there).