Sleeper trains...
I promised a post about the sleep trains we have got since leaving Ireland, so here is it..
We arrived at and left Budapest by sleeper train. The first journey was a nine hour one from Prague to Budapest. We got the train at 23.23 from a desolate Prague train station. We were full of excitment at getting our first sleeper train.
So the train arrives and we all hop on and get to our compartment. I should let you know at this point that Andy is normally slightly uptight about travel arrangements anyway.
Our compartment turned out to be a six-sleeper, approx. the size of a small family car. We were sharing with Fonnie* & Cish*. Fonnie had transparent knickers (Sammy was quick to point this out to the group the next morning), and Cish only had one eye but made up for it with a scary beard thing, ear thing, hair thing - hell the guy had the asymmetry thing down pat.
So lets just say there was a bit of tension in the air from the start. Sinead & I got a bit giggley, as we were still excited. Sammy put on some Ace of Base on the old iPod and got settled in, while Andy.....took his trousers off!
Now the rest of us had planned to sleep in our day gear, but not our Andy. Not five minutes were we on that train before he had de-pantsed himself. Later questioning revealed his motives
-I...uh...didn't know what else to do...
I mean, sure, the rest of us were in awe of his masculine and god like figure (this post may have been slightly edited by Andy) but still. As a group, despite andy's actions, we remain resolutely pro-pants, in most, if not all situations.
I've just sent Andy off to the kitchen to cook us up a few pizzas so I'll finish off this post now.
I don't think Andy will chance the de=pantsing thing again, so much slagging did he get about it. It didn't help that we met another traveller soon after (Hi Valia!) and without any background explanation we kept mentioning Andy taking his trousers off at every occasion.
The final paragraph is for our second sleeper train journey - Budapest to Krakow. It was like the Hilton of trains. We had a sink, some snacks, only 3 beds to a carriage...
Being only a 3-bed compartment Andy had offered to take the single bed in another carriage. I offered multiple times to sleep in the stranger's compartment, but he was fine with it..
Turns out he was sharing with a woman on the way back from a conference. He got a bit antsy about the situation..
Yep, the pants came off again..
Fingers crossed the lesson will be learned by Russia....
*names have been changed to protect identities
We arrived at and left Budapest by sleeper train. The first journey was a nine hour one from Prague to Budapest. We got the train at 23.23 from a desolate Prague train station. We were full of excitment at getting our first sleeper train.
So the train arrives and we all hop on and get to our compartment. I should let you know at this point that Andy is normally slightly uptight about travel arrangements anyway.
Our compartment turned out to be a six-sleeper, approx. the size of a small family car. We were sharing with Fonnie* & Cish*. Fonnie had transparent knickers (Sammy was quick to point this out to the group the next morning), and Cish only had one eye but made up for it with a scary beard thing, ear thing, hair thing - hell the guy had the asymmetry thing down pat.
So lets just say there was a bit of tension in the air from the start. Sinead & I got a bit giggley, as we were still excited. Sammy put on some Ace of Base on the old iPod and got settled in, while Andy.....took his trousers off!
Now the rest of us had planned to sleep in our day gear, but not our Andy. Not five minutes were we on that train before he had de-pantsed himself. Later questioning revealed his motives
-I...uh...didn't know what else to do...
I mean, sure, the rest of us were in awe of his masculine and god like figure (this post may have been slightly edited by Andy) but still. As a group, despite andy's actions, we remain resolutely pro-pants, in most, if not all situations.
I've just sent Andy off to the kitchen to cook us up a few pizzas so I'll finish off this post now.
I don't think Andy will chance the de=pantsing thing again, so much slagging did he get about it. It didn't help that we met another traveller soon after (Hi Valia!) and without any background explanation we kept mentioning Andy taking his trousers off at every occasion.
The final paragraph is for our second sleeper train journey - Budapest to Krakow. It was like the Hilton of trains. We had a sink, some snacks, only 3 beds to a carriage...
Being only a 3-bed compartment Andy had offered to take the single bed in another carriage. I offered multiple times to sleep in the stranger's compartment, but he was fine with it..
Turns out he was sharing with a woman on the way back from a conference. He got a bit antsy about the situation..
Yep, the pants came off again..
Fingers crossed the lesson will be learned by Russia....
*names have been changed to protect identities
posted by Lollipop at 6:48 PM
1 Comments:
i'd like to ask andy to explain the pants situation in his own words so we can have some balance on the subject.
andy?
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