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Sweden has as yet remained surprisingly allusive, in fact along with Portugal it remains one of only two countries with a size large enough to avoid having a number rather than a name on most maps that I have not visited on mainland Western Europe. This was something that I felt I needed to remedy. So I told Dan, he admitted he wanted to go, and thus I put pen to paper.
The obvious route would be to retrace the last trip I made by train to Scandinavia, via Brussels, Amsterdam and Hamburg to Copenhagen. That was in 2011 and back then, travelling alone I ran out of time and money in the Danish Capital and took the night train back West. This time though we would be carrying on over the amazing Øresund bridge to Sweden. It sounded fine in theory, but there was a problem, on the week I had off from work and for no apparently obvious reason DB were charging a vast excess on the Amsterdam - Copenhagen sleeper train. So we had to divert south, in the complete opposite direction to reason via Paris, Strasbourg and Basel where a much more affordable night train heads north to Denmark.
As time has passed though I have begun to view this rather abrupt diversion as quite a blessing in disguise. I have as of yet never visited the French capital, travelled on one of the worlds fastest railways from Paris to Strasbourg or on one of DB's double deck sleeper trains which ply the Dano-Swiss sleeper route. So please come and follow us as we embark on ticking off yet another European country.
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