Caledonian Sleeper

Our first night off the Queen Mary 2, we took the Caledonian Sleeper overnight from London Euston to Inverness. Over tea earlier that afternoon, we had looked at remedies for making the transition from sea to land. One suggestion was that you keep moving, such as taking a car ride. We hoped that the train ride would do the same thing.

We started our trip in the dining car, which felt a bit undersized for the number of people on the train. We were lucky to get there early and grab seats, which we kept until we went to our beds. In addition to the food and drink available for purchase, a scotch company was offering a free tasting of four different single-malt scotches.

The train left fairly late, so we soon made our way to our adjoining rooms. In the video above, you can see both rooms (and Craig, making faces at me). I was standing in the door between the rooms. This is a first class room. Well, two first class rooms, actually. The upper bunk isn't used in first class. If we'd had a normal room, there wouldn't have been enough space for both of us to stand because our bags would have taken all the floorspace.

I slept about as well as you might expect. The motion of the train was different from the ship, somehow unpredictable in a different way. But it did seem to help the "landsickness," at least while we were on the train. In the morning, we were served breakfast. And I made use of the sink in the room to clean up before we got off in Inverness.