Drinking the Night Train out of Booze

A sleeper cabin in a night train is a very affordable way of travelling; you save a night on a hostel and the tickets are generally a few euro more expensive then getting a seated cabin. We decided that this would be an opportunity to have a much needed night off in preperation for Oktoberfest, within minutes on the train, that went out the window. We met a few ‘like-minded’ commuters who were in search of a bar on the train, we managed to find a small area which we could buy beers. One beer, two beers, three beers, more, we were well on our way to having a cracker night on this train. The train pulled up at the station in Champagne and we were told that there would be a ‘slight’ delay of three hours, we were told that there would be enough beer to keep us going through the stoppage. They were wrong. Between the group of ten of us that we rounded up, we drank through all the beers that they had in all three bars on the train, so we moved on to the mini-bar liquers and spirits until they were gone. Finally the train took off again, and the only thing left of us to have were the mini bottles of champagne…. As terrible as they were, just on principle, we drank all of those too and managed to dry out the entire train of alcohol. Safe to say, I slept like an angel.