Traveling on a night train is always an adventure. Does the vacation begin the day you depart, or the day you arrive? The time spent traveling is time spent dreaming. Night trains are an antidote to speed, dawdling along the rails to rock passengers to sleep, lulling them gently with long breaks near stations. But we never sleep soundly in night trains, so as not to deprive ourselves of the sensation of travel. Whenever we wake, we wake to a surprise.