SLightly jealous of your trip. I love the train myself. I spent a couple of years living in Germany and the trains are always on time so it was trains everywhere and i loved it. One night after a twelve pubs of Christmas I put my ticket out on the table and fell asleep in my drunken state at 7pm to arrive at my destination at 8pm. I woke up coming into Dusseldorf at 7am the next morning having gone up and down the 400 mile route 3 times 🤣
12 pubs of Christmas has me cracking up haha
oh god its an institution over here. So much so that pubs now have signs saying "No 12 pubs" because the young lads get messy so if you are pub 9,10 or 11 then its basically carnage. A pint and a chaser in each pub. Each pub has also a rule . some examples :
Left handed pub
Swap shoes pub
Different accent pub
Different language pub
Can't say your mates first name pub
No talking/Down your drink pub
The Medusa pub (No eye contact with any of the lads)
Drink your pint in the toilet pub
No swearing pub
Selfie with a stranger pub
Can't use your phone pub
(you must sit down but you can't sit on any furniture rule is quite funny as well) But the beer is stronger in the Deutschland so I was lucky to be still walking at pub 7. It went down hill from there hence the early train home at 7pm.
That is way more intricate than I would have imagined! Thanks for sharing that with me. Legit, had no idea!