Two weekend
train experiences down…. Many more to come
The
train rides are actually not bad at all.
I really enjoy looking at the scenery out the window and talking with
the occasional English speaking European that ends up in our vicinity. They are all certainly intrigued by us…. Many
times we are talking for about 30 minutes before they speak up and we realize
they understand everything we’re saying…. On the way to Interlaken this
happened with a guy named Christian who was on his way home to study for his
finals. We all started talking to him
and it turns out he had won a country music contest in Europe last summer for a
few trip to Nashville (haven’t heard any country music here yet so I was quite
surprised). We asked him about
everywhere he went and he wasn’t quite sure of the names of all of the places
but we think he went from Nashville to West VA some and parts of Virginia. The funniest part was when someone mentioned
Richmond quickly and his immediate response was “Oh I’ve been to Richmond, that
place is how you say F***** up!!!” ….. “We live there” … “oh, I’m sorry… I
don’t know there was just a bunch of windmills and broken down buildings…
wasn’t really a place I was looking to stay.”
It was quite funny, but we think he must have been in the far outskirts
of Richmond or a different Richmond because it didn’t sound like anything we
recognized. He also told us he had been
to Busch Gardens and boy did he have words about that place. Apparently the new ride “Verbolten” is not
even a real German word…. He assumes they wanted to say “Verboten” which means
forbidden or prohibited, but the extra L really seemed to make him angry—“I
don’t understand why they wouldn’t have just asked a German man, it’s stupid,
the music the name, IT’S NOT EVEN GERMAN.”
Christian definitely made our ride a lot more enjoyable, I hope we get
to sit by some more entertaining Europeans in the future.
There
are also some not so happy Europeans to be stuck in the middle of us…. On the
way home from Munich a couple made the mistake of sitting in the train car that
was filled with everyone from our group and no one else… I don’t think they’ll
ever make that mistake again, they did not seem to be enjoying themselves. On
our connecting train (which was extremely crowded with very few empty seats) Maureen, Kimber, and I sat with a man who was busy on his
computer and didn’t seem to happy to be sitting with three girls either. I’m
not sure he enjoyed our game of Egyptian Ratscrew …. We tried to keep it quiet
but we had to entertain ourselves… hopefully we weren’t too much of a bother, we truly weren't trying to be.
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| He looks happy, right? |
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