YouTube has started to work out that I’m a closet trainspotter.

Woe is me!

My brother sent me this cool video of a dude taking the “newer” Amtrak sleeping car wagon from New York to Miami (and from snow to flip-flops!).

Looks pretty rad. Just have to avoid those Spring Breakers sharing their slobbery Covid-19 saliva all over the show.

And that video fed me on like a raging train-maniac to a video about a little-known night train that goes right across Poland from the top north-west border with Germany to the bottom south-east border with the Ukraine. Here’s an idea of that trip:

The actual connection Google finds is not the night train, which is direct and leaves Świnoujście at 4:28 pm, getting to Przemyśl at 9:18 am. I’m particularly interested in this direction because I immediately wondered: Can you get from Paris in the morning to catch this train onwards to the border to Ukraine in one day-night extravaganza?

Well, you can’t at the moment: you miss the connection by a few hours. You can get from Paris to Szczecin (just below Świnoujście) at 6:54 pm but the night trains leaves there at… 6:40 pm! Gahhhhh! So you miss the connection by less than half an hour! Ah well…

Here’s the video of that night train by the way:

I checked. You can get your own personal bed compartment (a single!) for you alone for around 85 €, right across Poland.

That’s a good deal!

Once night trains start again out of Paris heading east towards Central Europe, more efficient options for connecting up with the eastern edges of Europe will start to pop up like my new game: whack-a-train.

Can’t wait!