The Deutsches Hygiene-Museum is well worth a visit if you pass through Dresden.
1. Great temporary exhibition on mental health, worth entry fee alone.
2. Interesting permanent exhibitions, acknowledging also its own history and role in National Socialist ideology.
3. Spotlessly clean toilets.
It's this kind of chance find that #NotFlying / travelling by #EuropeanRail makes possible.
Actually, I take back the no frills description. Sure, there's no wifi and limited catering (improvements are coming, just ask @maartje).
But European Sleeper has the biggest frill that some other train companies have lost: staff on board who give a shit.
A passenger missed disembarking, even though we stopped at Berlin Hbf for 20 minutes and Ostbahnhof for 4. Next official stop is 2 hours away. Train manager stopped the train at Schönefeld instead of passing through.
Hello Danish rail replacement, er, ferry.
The Scandlines links between DK and DE are a great way to break up a long journey, and I prefer this route to the train right through Denmark. Even when it is running.
Completer-finishers among you may like to know that my 8-minute connection train was on time into Malmö but left 10 minutes late, and was running 6 behind when it left the Swedish rail network.
So no chance I could have made the Danish train from CPH, even though it had looked tantalisingly feasible all day.
That sleeper train ticket was €50 well spent.
Oh, and the only seating is evil slippery sloping metal benches that are impossible to sit on, and must be freezing in winter.
I wish I did have only 8 minutes here (toots passim) but on the other hand, the 300 metre transfer from temporary platforms 11/12 to main station platforms 1/2 is so badly signed that I am glad I allowed 30 minutes.
Moan moan moan.
Ian