‘Eat Bratwurst and get a bus,’ Race Across the World winner says to England fans

“I’ve just looked up buses to Berlin and sometimes you can get them for £30, obviously at the moment they’re £170,” he says.

“They know what they’re doing – your best bet is getting to France and then coaching it through central Europe.”

FlixBus is offering a journey from London Victoria to Berlin via a Dover to Calais ferry crossing, and a change of coach in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, for £131, leaving at 08:00 BST on Saturday, arriving 21 hours and 55 minutes later at 06:55 on Sunday.

You could opt for a speedier route via Eurostar to Brussels, Belgium, take an ICE train to Cologne, Germany and another ICE service to Berlin, but it will set you back £350, according to Trainline, and get you to Berlin in just under 10 hours.

Watts recommends looking at bus routes from London to either Brussels or Amsterdam and then onwards to Berlin.

“But if you want to fly, head to somewhere like Gdansk, and then get a bus… it’s definitely going to take a while, but all roads lead to Berlin.”

A quick look on Friday afternoon for flights from London to Berlin show direct routes almost totally sold out – but with options available for about £200 for those willing to endure a lengthy layover in somewhere like Turkey.