Archived:NightOnTheGalacticRailroad: Difference between revisions

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* Day 1, Saturday: Train to Paris/Brussels/Cologne and a day there. Overnight train to, let's say Warsaw. We could get to Moscow by Monday morning on a direct train, but the trans-siberian doesn't leave until Tuesday evening.

** There is a Cologne-Moscow sleeper train

*** Yes there is; my point is that doesn't get us to Beijing any quicker, though we could take it if we want more time in Moscow

* Day 2, Sunday: Warsaw, explore it, overnight train to Kiev

* Day 3, Monday: Kiev, explore it, overnight train to Moscow

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==== A modest proposal for training out and flying back by Smith ====

* Day 1 (Sun) - Assemble in London

* Day 2 (Mon) - to Cologne via Brussels

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* Days 12-14 (Thurs - Sat) - Japan

* Day 15 (Sun) - fly home

The Cologne-Moscow sleeper takes two days, so we'd need to leave on Sunday. (Well, that's not entirely true; if we really wanted maximum train density we could get an early morning Eurostar to Cologne, spend the day going to Warsaw by conventional train, then get the Warsaw-Moscow sleeper which only takes one night) I feel if we're leaving Monday/Sunday we might as well leave Saturday and spent a few days in interesting places, at least for those of us who're conventionally employed (options would either be getting a second day in Moscow, or taking a slower combination of sleepers that would give us days in Warsaw and Kiev - see my plan near the top of the page). Also note that the ferry doesn't arrive in Osaka until Thursday.

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 * Day 1, Saturday: Train to Paris/Brussels/Cologne and a day there. Overnight train to, let's say Warsaw. We could get to Moscow by Monday morning on a direct train, but the trans-siberian doesn't leave until Tuesday evening.
 ** There is a Cologne-Moscow sleeper train
+*** Yes there is; my point is that doesn't get us to Beijing any quicker, though we could take it if we want more time in Moscow
 * Day 2, Sunday: Warsaw, explore it, overnight train to Kiev
 * Day 3, Monday: Kiev, explore it, overnight train to Moscow
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 ==== A modest proposal for training out and flying back by Smith ====
 * Day 1 (Sun) - Assemble in London
 * Day 2 (Mon) - to Cologne via Brussels
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 * Days 12-14 (Thurs - Sat) - Japan
 * Day 15 (Sun) - fly home
+The Cologne-Moscow sleeper takes two days, so we'd need to leave on Sunday. (Well, that's not entirely true; if we really wanted maximum train density we could get an early morning Eurostar to Cologne, spend the day going to Warsaw by conventional train, then get the Warsaw-Moscow sleeper which only takes one night) I feel if we're leaving Monday/Sunday we might as well leave Saturday and spent a few days in interesting places, at least for those of us who're conventionally employed (options would either be getting a second day in Moscow, or taking a slower combination of sleepers that would give us days in Warsaw and Kiev - see my plan near the top of the page). Also note that the ferry doesn't arrive in Osaka until Thursday.