The #Eurostar was pleasingly uneventful. Just, as usual, my reintroduction to a lot of British people being very British. (I include myself, sadly.)
Plenty of earwigging opportunities. A high maintenance mum (50s?) and her daughter coming home from their first #EuropeanRail adventure. A family on the comedown from Disneyland Paris, complete with a 'bit of a madam' 3yo daughter. A lady from Idaho with all kinds of plans for her week-long holiday in London and then Scotland.
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Warning, deep smugness approaching.
It wasn't the best service that #EuropeanSleeper have ever run. Disruptive passengers, apparently, led to long delay on departure from Berlin that couldn't be clawed back. But a 2-hour delay on a sleeper train is just a bonus lie-in, yeah?
And the smugness? Well my ability to second guess delay points and durations was on top form. I already had a ticket (bought in May at a bargain price) on what ended up as the next #Eurostar to London.
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#Interrail happiness is a 24-minute delay, if you've allowed 2 hours to your next train departure time, have luggage with, have no particular plans or needs, and the weather is occasional utterly torrential downpours.
So colour me entirely happy to have less standing around to do at Praha hl.n.
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Food on the #Regiojet is decent – very fair price and plenty of choice. Bizarrely and unexpectedly, I may therefore use this train to stock up for the #EuropeanSleeper where food is likely to be limited. (Already have some supplies in.)
The soup descriptions at least in English, sound very, er, traditional in outlook though. You can have that vegan rubbish if you insist, but proper soup has meat in.
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When I run a train company, falling asleep in a window seat will be covered by some new Railway Bye Law.
An automated mechanism gently moves the slumberer to a place with no view, allowing a loyal #WindowStaring passenger to take their place.
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Getting my money's worth out of my 1st class #Interrail, with luck, on today's first #Trains2Tatras journey: 7 hours direct from Poprad Tatry, #Slovakia to Prague.
'Business class' on #Regiojet seems mainly to be huge seats but less view out of the windows at the stunning scenery.
Oh, and free prosecco.
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