J and I said goodbye to the Ukrainian gang and caught our 17-hour train to Krakow. We were over the moon when we discovered that we had our own 3-birth cabin that even had a table that turned into a sink. It was like the true lap of luxury to us after some of our previous over night trips. We got settled in for the mammoth trip, we had brought our own little picnic of traditional Ukrainian fare. Cucumbers, tomatoes, sausage, bread and smokey stringy cheese, what else could you possibly need. It was a rather rocky sleep and we weren’t sure what time we would arrive at the border control so as soon as I heard voices up and about the next morning we got up. I was rather slovenly and stayed in my pyjamas
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