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Win a copy of Moonlight Express & a Global Pass (7 travel days in 1 month)!

  • July 28, 2026
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  • July 29, 2026

We’re celebrating the release of Moonlight Express, the latest book by acclaimed travel writer and journalist Monisha Rajesh.

 

Monisha is the author of the former Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month Around the World in 80 Trains and has inspired countless travellers to discover the world by rail. In Moonlight Express, she takes readers on an unforgettable journey aboard some of the world's most iconic sleeper trains.

 

From Austria's Nightjet to Finland's Santa Claus Express, Monisha explores the magic of travelling while the world sleeps. Along the way she enjoys reindeer stew on the night train to Norway, sips pisco sours aboard the Belmond Andean Explorer to the shores of Lake Titicaca and even considers a game of cricket down a carriage on Pakistan's Shalimar Express.

 

As night trains experience a remarkable renaissance, Moonlight Express is a celebration of slow, sustainable travel, filled with humour, adventure and unforgettable stories from the rails.

 

Win a copy of Moonlight Express and an Interrail/Eurail Global Pass (7 travel days in 1 month)!

 

Participation is open to all persons aged 16+. The giveaway ends on 7 August. Five winners will be randomly selected and contacted via the community DM after the giveaway closes. Each winner will receive 1× Interrail/Eurail Global Pass for 7 travel days within 1 month (2nd class) and 1× Moonlight Express book. The book will be shipped free of charge.

 

📄 Read the full Terms & Conditions, here.

 

💬 To enter, tell us in the comments: If you could spend one night aboard any sleeper train in Europe, which one would you choose, and why?

 

I would somehow arrive in Norway from the NL. There is not a direct way to do this right now, but it would be incredible to arrive in the mountains from the very flat landscape!  But it would take several connections. Maybe from Sweden…


  • Rail rookie
  • July 29, 2026

I would love to go from Ankara to Sivas, because I want to go as far as I can with Interrail !


  • Rail rookie
  • July 29, 2026

Crossing Swiss, with a full afternoon glued to the window passing by all the mountains & lakes, changing in Milano, falling asleep on the internotte & waking up with endles blue blue sea just before crossing the mainland of Italy to Sicily, Mmmm! 

 

 


  • Right on track
  • July 29, 2026

I have done several nighttrain rides but the one I remember the most is the one from Bucarest to Istanbul. It felt like a real adventure, 24 hours passing through 3 different countries, for a large part in day light, with most memorable the passage through Veliko Tarnovo, which looked like a fairy tale town through my couchette window - and then waking up in Istanbul, it felt magical.


Bucharest to Chișinău for me.  

Beautiful scenery and a bonus middle of the night gauge change


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Difficult question, because there are so many great sleeper trains that I would still like to try, but if I had to select one I would really like to try the Dacia Sleeper between Vienna and Bucharest because of the retro atmosphere and the beautiful route through Romania. Slow travel at its best.


  • Rail rookie
  • July 29, 2026

Palermo to Milan for the train ferry and the lovely scenery, when it's not dark! 


  • Rail rookie
  • July 29, 2026

Krakow to Vilnius, magical cities and I find something really beautiful about the track change in Mockava


Belgrade to Bar route return - for the stunning scenery one way on the daylight leg and interesting conversations on the overnight leg with the characters I hope to meet while sharing a couchette.

 


  • Rail rookie
  • July 29, 2026

I would love to take the Montenegro Express from Belgrade to Bar, because both of these countries are still on my bucket list, and I've heard the scenery is incredible!


  • Rail rookie
  • July 29, 2026

That’s a tough one, either a Caledonian Sleeper trip to the Scottish Highlands, for the beauty of the landscapes along the way and on site, or the Bosphorus Express, for the sake of doing a bit of the Orient Express route.


Stockholm to Berlin. Walking down to the station after work and and catching “the train to Europe” is a good start of an adventure. 
 

Sadly the (right wing) government have cut the funding and the SJ train will disappear in a month 😒. 


  • Right on track
  • July 29, 2026

I’d choose the Stuttgart to Lesce-Bled night train, travelling from urban Germany to the countryside of Slovenia 


  • Rail rookie
  • July 29, 2026

I would choose the one from Stockholm to Berlin because that’s the best way from Finland. After that the whole world is open!


  • Rail rookie
  • July 29, 2026

I’d love to take a sleeper from Vienna to Berlin...from one German-speaking capital to another!


  • Rail rookie
  • July 29, 2026

I would choose the one from Stockholm to Berlin. It's the best way to get via land to Central Europe from Finland, and Berlin has so much to see and do. 


  • Rail rookie
  • July 29, 2026

Has to be a night on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express - not a journey I’m likely to be able to afford otherwise!


  • Rail rookie
  • July 29, 2026

I want to travel by night train from Milano to Palermo, scenery along the coast during day and railferry!


I would like to take the Corona nighttrain to Brasov, as my planned trip to Brasov was cancelled due to Corona ;)


  • Rail rookie
  • July 29, 2026

I would love to take the night train from Berlin to Stockholm! And to continue to travel from there - the landscapes in Sweden are mesmerizing...