Things are heating up in the podcast cave, so much so that Simon has shaved his beard. Luckily for Nic and everyone else in Nürnberg, Simon did keep it long enough to display it at the recent Punk in Drublic music festival. We talk about a wonderful sunny Saturday of punk music, beer and diffusing arguments at the bar. The €9 train ticket has finally gone on sale, allowing Germans to travel the rails around the country for next to nothing. We finish on a similar theme by looking at where you should go to get the most out of all this public transport with some of the best rail journeys in Germany.