Day 31 Monday 1 May 2017

Happy May Day to you true believers out there (if there are any left, although I can think of a couple).

Welcome aboard Leanne, better late than never.

On my last train trip of the journey, a two hour train trip from Nuremberg to Frankfurt.  I was talking to a couple from Qld (not FNQ) on the platform before the train arrived and we were discussing why Australia can't have a train system like Germany or most of Western Europe for that matter, eh.  Think of all the money wasted on Rudd's pink batts debacle or the Julia Gillard memorial school halls debacle or the flat screen in every household bonus debacle.  Not to mention the $1.4 billion we Victorians spent on a road that doesn't exist.  If this money had been invested in something nation building we might have had the start of a east coast high speed rail link.  

I have become a bit of an expert on snooker on this trip.  You may not be aware of it but the world snooker championships have been playing for the last two weeks somewhere in England.  Now this has been televised on German television with German commentary, but as snooker is a very visual sport the commentary is completely unecessary for the enjoyment of the game.  It has been about the only thing on television that I have been able to watch (apart from some appalling Italian cabaret shows like something from Australian 1960's television).  The snooker is up to the grand final, Higgins (underdog) is leading Shelby (current world champ) 10 frames to 6 in a best of 35 competition, I'm rooting for Higgsie!

Will post this from the train, more to come, if I see or do anything interesting in Frankfurt.