Rowan Tree and Red Thread

We deviated from our semi-regular Wednesday boardgame session last night and played a three-hander of Ticket to Ride: Europe. A tight game with a lot of swearing and frustration in and around Germany & Switzerland. I was short of Locomotive cards throughout, and really should have swallowed my pride and taken one instead of fishing for them from the deck, but I always feel I'm paying over the odds for them that way. As it worked out I only needed (and used) one loco in the whole game, but was I squeezed out of a couple of routes just before I got to them and was forced to spend a station to get into Rome from Marseilles. Sammywol ran out the game on trains but we were all pretty near that point, and it didn't feel like I had lots left to do at the end. One more turn would have been nice, but isn't that always the case?

Final scores were Sammywol 120 (holding 3 stations) Irishkate 110 (holding 3 stations) and my on 103 (holding 2 stations).