Ankara – Malatya, overnight bus, June 24

VIP Malatyalilar, seats 15 and 16

Regular buses leave for Malatya from Ankara's otogar, with prices ranging between 17.50 and 20 YTL per person. The trip takes 10 hours, so we chose the 21:30 service, which arrived in Malatya at 7:15am. The bus was clean, comfy, and with a little help from earplugs and eye masks, we managed to get a surprisingly decent amount of sleep.
Bathroom: No loo on bus; regular loo stops though.
View: Variable (great scenery on the way in to Malatya in the morning).
Cost: 40 YTL
Recommended? Yes; as overnight bus trips go, this wasn't too bad.

Porto to San Sebastian, May 6

Sud-Express train seat (8 berth compartment), Coach 21, seats 24 and 2


This was a reasonably expensive train journey (via Coimbra) that we needed to make to get to San Sebastian. (Some websites will tell you that there is a bus that makes this journey direct from Porto, however the Porto tourist office telephoned the local bus companies and were told that no such route existed as at May 6 2008 - as this route is mentioned on other websites, we suspect that it has been discontinued, or operates only part of the year.)
We went for seats instead of a sleeper because of the price, and a rash assumption that the seats would recline. They did not. We shared an 8 berth compartment with 2 others, who we dubbed Literary Spaniard and Swarthy Spaniard.
View: Variable
Cost per night: 59 euros each
Notable smells: feet
Recommended? No, only if you're desperate to get to San Sebastian overnight on a budget