Trans-europe express
September 16th 2007 Refreshed by Paris, and vowing to return again to a city that guards its secrets closely, we headed to Gare du Nord and boarded the 8:40 pm Nachtzug to that other Grande Dame of Europe, Berlin. Our cabin was shared by Claire, a friendly French architecture student on her way to Berlin and an anonymous French man who spent most of his time in the corridor alone, listening to his ipod.
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