"Don't forget to take a bottle of brandy with you. It doesn't take up
much room, and, if you're not used to German cooking, you'll find it
handy in the night."
He added that the brandy you get at foreign hotels was mere poison, and
that it was really unsafe to travel abroad without a bottle of brandy.
He said that a simple thing like a bottle of brandy in your bag might
often save your life.
Coming home, I ran against a literary friend of mine. He said:
"You'll have a goodish time in the train old fellow. Are you used to
long railway journeys?"