Dave Rowland, I must explain I was in Munich to watch The Arsenal and not on a railway jolly, in fact the continent has never crossed my mind even though I've travelled by train in France, Germany Spain and Holland. In Holland I caught a train from Amsterdam to Eindhoven and it caught fire on the way home due to a mechanical fault. Again this was watching The Arsenal so my memory is a bit foggy. I was half interested but I was half pŁ$%^d so never took a lot in. All my football mates know I am a rail enthusiast so I wouldn't have been embarrassed.
I did quite a few trips between France and England on staff trains for Eurotunnel possibly about Spring '94. I "lived" in France at the time and it was nice to pop back and get some fish and chips. Over there, if you asked a waiter to have your steak well done and could I have some tomato sauce, they looked at you as if you'd ask permission to sleep with their wife. 20 odd miles away but completely different. I actually got to like the French people I met and worked with.
