The latest capital-to-capital sleeper is one of Europe’s most eagerly awaited new routes – and connects London to Berlin in 16 hours
bakery, a few doors down. This may be the coolest city in the world: bakery staff look catwalk-ready as they bag €8 loafs.of the Pillar of Shame by Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt and this highlights Berlin’s artistic clout, as well as its status as a human rights centrepoint. I watch Uyghur and Tibetan activists paint faces red on the statue, but the mood among the paintbrush-wielding crowd is of hope rather than horror. The monument will stand by the Axel Springer building until 22 June.
, which promotes night trains to address global heating, wave flags that read TRAINS NOT PLANES! as carriages clunk to a halt.Also boarding are Chris Engelsman and Elmer van Buuren, European Sleeper’s founders. Engelsman’s love of night trains was stoked when travelling across Russia in his youth. “It’s cosy, it’s an adventure,” he says. “We expect to attract people who love train travel, love the adventure, who wouldn’t want to be stressing at airports. Just enjoying the ride.
I ask Stefanie, a teacher, if she would consider taking a night train even without plane cancelations. She laughs: “I’d still take the plane. Faster is better.” At 08.30 I happily wash my hair in my cabin’s sink before a great cold breakfast, included with my ticket, is delivered . Despite scrubbing my armpits with wet-wipes minutes earlier, eating Ardennes pâté on crackers before arriving in Brussels at 10.10, about 40 minutes late, feels rather sophisticated.masturbation murals
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