2010/6/6 Jon Harald Søby jhsoby@gmail.com:
Just go from Wien to Berlin and Berlin to Gdańsk. It's easy. I can recommend an Interrail ticket, that wight be cheaper for a two-way train journey than the ordinary price (you can find Interrail prices at oebb.at or bahn.de). (This Easter I went from Zürich to Wien to Bratislava to Banská Bystrica (by mistake, lol) to Budapest to Bucureşti. Quite a few stops, but there was never any real problem in getting where we wanted.)
The train planner I tried suggests traveling through Warsaw. For daytime travel, you can leave Gdansk Glowny at 07:55 on EIC 5302, then change at Warszawa Centralna to EC 105, arriving at Wien Westbahnhof at 20:44. For nighttime travel (move convenient but probably more expensive), you can leave Gdansk at 15:55 on EC 5300, then change at Warszawa Wschodina to D 407 (sleeper train), arriving at Wien Westbahnhof at 06:22 the next morning. A third option is to take the overnight TLK 83508 leaving Gdansk at 23:23 and arriving in Katowice at 08:43, then change to EC 103, arriving at Wien Simmering at 13:58.
But let's keep this thread on topic :)
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)