First class travel
Seriously unimpressed.
No bloody WiFi for starters!
Who tf serves a bare three quarter cup of tea with the spoon IN the cup and coffee (evaporated) milk in first class - filthy bastards!
Added to which the pleasant, excellent English speaking woman who came to the carriage told me she had green tea then came back with some nasty muck with fucking artificial mango (kill me now!) and citrus flavour and (unlike first class in the UK) they made me pay for the insults to my taste buds. Insult to injury the croissant was made with some nasty, probably hydrogenated fat.
Plus, when I complained the answer was a very polite, tuff shit n fuck u!
First class? My fat, black arse!
These guys need to seriously get back to the drawing board for first class service!
Having said that. I have to admit, I love the egalitarianism of German trains.
There is (unlike the NL) always a buffet car. (Like the UK) it is always situated between first and second class. (Unlike the UK) it has tables, chairs and stools, is reasonably priced and a great place to hang out, drink beer and eat reasonable, when not good food.
But back to my smooth, quiet, if 40 minutes late train journey to Berlin. Seven hours with no WiFi was pretty shit, especially as there is free wifi all across the Dutch (& paid in UK) train services. Admittedly train travel in the UK is stupid expensive and the Dutch just really aren't that pleasant to travel with.
When I was younger, I nearly always had great conversations with people I met on (German, Italian, French, UK) trains. Now, (mostly in NL) whenever possible, I travel first class; read and write in splendid (if sometimes lonely) isolation and think back to my past, financially poorer but richer in experience.
