Author: flightsandtimes

Bonus Blog – Top Tips for European Sleepers

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.

ZRH-ZAG HZ/Nightjet – Single Sleeper

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.

Zurich – The Little Big City

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.

Berlin – A Reunited Capital

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.