Of all the cities I visited whilst on my Snoozing to Split trip, Zagreb was the one that I had the least time to explore. With my sleeper train from Zurich arriving into the Croatian capital 40 minutes late, I had just four hours to explore, eat and make it back to the station in time for the final train of the day to Split at 1518.
Since taking my first trip onboard the Caledonian Sleeper in November 2020, I've become a firm fan of travelling by sleeper train. Not only is there the efficiency of travelling great distances whilst you sleep, there's the romance of falling asleep in one place and waking up in somewhere new and exciting! Having recently travelled from Brussels to Zagreb by sleeper trains, I thought I'd share with you some general thoughts and tips that may come in use if you're planning on travelling across Europe by sleeper train.
After spending the day eating well, climbing a mountain by train and generally exploring the Swiss city of Zurich, I was back at Zurich Hauptbahnhof ready to catch the third and final sleeper train of my trip. So far on Snoozing to Split, I had slept as I travelled from Brussels to Berlin and from Berlin to Zurich and it was now time for me to snooze from Zurich to the Croatian capital, Zagreb.
The second sleeper train of Snoozing to Split had brought me to Zurich, the largest city in Switzerland, situated on the Limmat river and the northern end of the Zürichsee (Lake Zuirch). With a previous visit to Zurich under my belt, although a good few years ago, I was looking forward to both seeing the city’s highlights and also perhaps doing a couple of things that were a bit different.
Following a day exploring the German capital, I was back at Berlin Hauptbahnhof in plenty of time to catch the second sleeper train of my trip. This would be with Nightjet, a division of Austrian national rail operator OBB, a would take me from Berlin, down through Germany, to Zurich in Switzerland.
Day two of Snoozing to Split started early as I arrived into Berlin onboard the European Sleeper at just after six in the morning. After an amble around Berlin’s Hauptbahnhof whilst dropping of my bag and having a lazy breakfast at McDonalds (its foreign food if you can’t buy it in the UK right?), it was finally a reasonable hour and time to head into the centre of Germany’s capital.
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