What Are You Travelling For?

Tour Diary (Days 1 & 2)

The view from the window at Hamburg–Altona this morning.

‘Are you travelling for work?’ asks the young man in the bunk above me. We’re sharing a sleeping compartment on the new night train from Stockholm to Hamburg. He is headed on to Munich, while I travel to Frankfurt for the first event of the tour this afternoon.

How to answer his question? I’m tempte…