ok, advice first and foremost. if you are ever going to get a night train, make sure you reserve a seat. and, more importantly, make sure you reserve a bed. we didnt do either of these, and instead found ourselves walking up and down the train for an hour just trying to find somewhere to sit. eventually found somewhere, and sat. it's pretty damn hard to sleep in those chairs i tell you. so we spent 8hours in a carriage on a train, just sitting and trying to sleep. i managed to get a couple of hours, but this was only by lying on the floor of the train, half underneath the seating. it was bizarrely comfy, but this was probably only because the chairs where so terrifyingly uncomfortable. we survived though, somehow. OH!, before all
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