On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:53:17 +0200, Dave Frightens Me
wrote:
>On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:14 +0200, Martin wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:13:47 GMT, Dan Stephenson wrote:
>>
>>>On 2008-04-16 03:07:53 -0500, Giovanni Drogo
>>> said:
>>>
>>>> Night train (with sleepers), in the countries which still support them,
>>>> are a great way of saving time and hotel expenses. However it depends
>>>> on your route whether they are really useful.
>>>
>>>A word of caution: because it's 'overnight', it takes long. The
>>>Vienna to Venice sleep I went on simply stopped along the way and
>>>waited. And the intense odor of oil filled the cabin and I could
>>>hardly breathe. I will never ever take a sleeper again.
>>
>> I travelled sleeper from Toulouse to Paris once. I hardly slept a wink, the
>> train arrived in Paris at around 5am. Never again.
>
>You do get used to sleeping on trains though. I barely slept a wink at the
>beginning, but fall asleep almost as soon as I sit/lye down now. I find it
>quite the.utic.
To each his own, of course. The Boy Scout camping effect does
apply, and, like youthful campers who don't sleep much in their
tents the first night, sleeping is easier the second night,
perhaps because of the lack of sleep the prvious night. But I
rarely use night trains on successive nights.
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