There’s always been something that has drawn me to the sleeper train journey.
Perhaps the idea of boarding in one city and waking up to the next, gently lulled to sleep by the rocking motion of the carriages on the rails. The reality of course is often a little different than in our poetic (and often nostalgic) minds. This time, i’d decided to give long distance train travel (and a touch of ‘slow travel’) a try. Given that flying is by far the worst culprit in travel in terms of carbon emissions, with short haul being flights worse relatively speaking, I’d decided to put my money where my mouth was and take the more sustainable route. From Amsterdam to Tuscany. A two hour flight or twenty hours, via Germany and Switzerland, by train. Leg number one was the sleeper train from Amsterdam to Zurich. Swiss countryside flashing past the windows. My route took me from Amsterdam to Zurich by sleeper train, and then Zurich to Milan, and on to Florence. An alternative way of travelling is via Munich in Germany – a better opt...