On our Interrail trip 1985 and some years later again with a friend from the USA we crossed the Channel. The tunnel did not exist at that time. The hovercraft was too expensive, we took the slow boat which was fun too. We enjoyed the Hide Park in London and many sites like Madame Tussauds which at that time only existed in London. Now they are all over the planet and there is even one in Singapore I think. And in Berlin.

We watched the friendly „Bobby“ policemen bugging the cyclists. We had a nice dinner too but thought that the spinach was extremly expensive. A Long time ago, almost as long as England had won an international soccer title. I at the second time baught a nice cap in Harrods, London which was inaugurated by a pigeon in Hide Park, I still don’t know how. But I lost the cap when I left it on a tour to the carnival in Venice in the bus and never got it back. What a pitty.

On the way back, the train was late, and we missed a connection. Because of that we were granted to use the iconic German “Rheingold” train. Germany’s most famous First Class only luxury train which was still operating on the old trace directly next at the shore of the Rhine River. That service stopped soon later.

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