Before You Die: Travel with Your Lover, First Class by Catherine Fairweather

Travel with your lover, first class, by train from Moscow to St Petersburg. Close out the cold and the rest of the world in your compartment-cocoon. It’s not high luxury but there are still details like linen sheets, wood panelling, tea served from a samovar at daylight and a view of endless birch forests, ghostly beneath the snow, to soothe the soul. An experience that probably hasn’t changed very much in a 100 years. Romantic and affordable with it. Catherine Fairweather