couchette

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• At Belgrade I was left looking after the luggage while my husband went off to organize a couchette or wagon-lit for the rest of the journey.
• To avoid the hard-seat alternative, you have to do a quick deal with a guard before getting on the train - a little like booking a last-minute couchette in Europe.
• We had couchettes (lie down chairs) on this train, but I slept poorly because of all the stops we were making.
• The company takes off on the sleeper - cue for much squabbling among the bunk-hopping young lovers as to who sleeps with whom in which couchette - which makes a timely departure in a convincing billow of smoke.
• Sharing a couchette with five strangers was hardly deluxe travel, but especially in the age before mobile phones, it often fostered moments of true camaraderie. Life in Italy Takes On a Faster Tempo
• I splurged on a first-class couchette – so I had a compartment to myself. The Woman in the Fifth
• To avoid hotel bills, we took overnight trains and booked couchettes.
• Graham tossed the paperback on to the opposite couchette and made his way to the dining car.
• You can purchase a return train ticket from London to Madrid through Rail Europe (0844 848 4070), travelling on the Elipsos Train Hotel from £202 return per person with accommodation in a four-berth couchette. Cycling Spain's ancient Via de la Plata
• At Belgrade I was left looking after the luggage while my husband went off to organize a couchette or wagon-lit for the rest of the journey.