Fast train across Europe

Three trains, two great conversations and a sleep later - I'm in Poland. Sat next to a voice over professional on the Eurostar from London to Brussells. Very interesting guy who speaks beautiful English and I imagine, with his profession, beautiful German. He also speaks French and Italian but not on voice overs. Slept my way to Koln. And then the next train was late. It felt quite strange in just a few hours to be in England, France and Germany, with all the different language announcements. Had to hang in Koln train station for a couple of hours waiting. No seating... not sure what the deal is there but noticed all train stations seem to be very short on seating. They are obviously discouraging people from hanging around. Very tiring though to have to stand so much. Must be tough for oldies. The station was quite a steel engineering feat. Beautiful in an industrial way. A steam train pulling WWII carriages pulled in with a themed group tour while I waited. Seemed very strange. At first I thought they were immitating the cattle cars of the WWII Jewish genocide but it seemed after further watching they were just old suburban carriages. Made me uncomfortable to hear those German voices and the vision combined. Strange what your mind connects vs reality...

Steam Train at Koln Station Germany

Finally got in the sleeper to Warsaw. Not a very comfortable night but better than sitting up :) My roomies were a lovely lady and her 4 yo son going from Germany to Poland to visit her parents. She spoke some English and we had fun with her little boy Yan. Kids are the same all over the world!  She grew up under Communism and left as an exchange student in the early 90s as the wall came down. Although she came back to finish her degree she left to live in Germany soon after and has never returned to live. She does visit her parents a couple of times a year. Particularly now she has a son.

We woke to a cold and wet, foggy day; which I believe is the typical October weather. Hope not :/