Couchsurfing.com provides a network of people willing to offer up their couch for the night to travellers. It seems quite simple in operation. Sign up, plan your journey and post it on the website and see if anyone's got couch going spare...



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The Night Riviera Sleeper is Great Western's over night train service to Penzance from Central London. I've never been on a "sleeper", but I really like the idea of getting the train from Paddington at midnight after a night out and and waking up in Penzance for breakfast ...



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