As a young traveller I took a handful of night trains...one time a family member had shared a bottle of homemade grappa - I was super excited about this! We wer

As a young traveller I took a handful of night trains...one time a family member had shared a bottle of homemade grappa - I was super excited about this! We were on a night train sharing a sleeper with an Austrian single mom with a couple of tweens. I think we were headed to somewhere deep in the Italian boot and it was summer - so very hot, with eight people in the sleeper car. Somewhere in the middle of the night, the heat in the room caused the stopper in the bottle of grappa to come loose. It didn't just spill - it evaporated into everything in the car. Every inch of our clothes, hair, etc reeked of booze. Conductor's face when he opened the door to check our tickets was absolutely hilarious. So be careful on those night trains. ;-)