Buying tickets...my style

Alright, got the tickets...back!  As promised, I picked up train tickets in Germany last week.  I did get a discount for the 6 person group, and the guy did not care at all how many people actually travelled on it.  In fact, he was the nicest German bureaucrat I have probably ever met. He even ran out after me to give me back the bag of chocolate for Laura I had forgotten.  So the tickets I got just go from Cologne to Bamberg and Bamberg to Karlsruhe.  I figured Karlsruhe is close enough to any of the little towns around there that we should be able to get pretty cheap regional tickets when we're there (about 40km from Baden-Baden, if we go straight there).  The total cost for five tickets was about 377 euros, or about 76 euros each including both legs if my math is more or less right.  I didn't get tickets from Amsterdam to Cologne in case we want to go to Antwerp or something.  Unfortunately I had to hold off posting because there was a little kerfluffle with the train tickets.  I left them in the hotel.  But now I have them back, no problem!