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I really love the UK so I would love to take any sleeper train there. Since I'm from Mainland Europe I would probably arrive first in London and from there I could take the Caledonian Sleeper Train up to Scotland. I've been in Scotland before but I haven't explored much so that could be a really great opportunity to get to Scotland and explore :)

I’m sorry to say and unoriginally it would have to be the Orient Express just for one or two nights to see how the other half live and to experience the ultimate in the exotic, cultural, sophisticated side of the European spirit. But I would take it from Venice to Paris I think, because it is better to travel well on the way home. That is unless it was in Carnival season where I would do it the opposite way (Paris-Venice) and walk straight into one of the many masked balls.

An alternative which also entices is taking it all the way from Istanbul through Central Europe for the Grand Budapest experience, maybe ending at Venice.

I have taken the sleeper from Milano to Lecce and it was very good, even if the service and carriages could be modernised. Hopefully as the popularity of these services improves that will fund the upgrades that I think are appropriate for the efficiency and sophistication of this form of travel which we somehow forgot about until recently. I always sleep better on a train, and love waking up to the unfamiliar aroma of the air in a new country or region.

By the way a couple of times as a student in the 1980’s I took the train all the way from Venice down through Yugoslavia as it was then to Athens. At which point I took a ferry to see my parents in Cyprus, sleeping on the deck. That experience was far more basic in terms of comfort, of course, but it had its own sophisticated angle. And I met the most amazing people.

I do miss those years when even the most distant parts of Europe (from the UK, anyway) could be relatively easily reached by rail-only services. I hope they reopen the route direct to Greece soon.

Caledonian Sleeper to visit the beauty of Scotland and explore some of the distilleries.

I’d take the Caledonian sleeper or the Dacia Express! Would love to explore Scotland or Hungary for the first time :)

The Nightjet Paris to Vienna would be my choice. It would be amazing to wake up in Vienna and revisit the city I first went to over 30 years ago.

I’d love to take the NightJet from Paris to Vienna, and wake up in one of my favourite cities in the world!

In a combination of unique new experiences, I'd love to take the Trenitalia Intercity Notte, perhaps starting at Firenze Santa Maria Novella, and definitely getting off at Syracuse! Overnight travel, a train aboard a ferry, and gorgeous ruins- the thought delights me!

I'd love to try the Caledonian sleeper in Scotland. It's always been on our bucket list with my girlfriend it must be spectacular!

I love France’s trains de nuit, you can board the train after day in Paris and wake up on Mediterranean shore. Equally cool is the ride from Berlin to Switzerland. I love to wake up somewhere elase, different surroundings, different climate, the same bed :D

Trondheim to Bodø on the Nordlandsbanen during summer. Seeing the stunning nature while experiencing midnight sun, and passing into the Arctic Circle. Breathtaking and I have not even done it yet.

I've been lucky enough to travel on the night train from Stockholm to Narvik, Belgrade to Bar (several times now, because of my Serbian wife!), Budapest to Brasov, Sofia to Istanbul and even Paris to Andorra, but I'd love to travel the London to Scotland night train - I come from the UK originally, and to travel that route would be a dream - one, because of it's luxury, but also, night trains are such a rarity in the UK, I'd love to experience it