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Europe - travel by train.

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Fleurpepper Sat 01-Oct-22 12:56:04

Recently we have re-discovered the joys of travelling by train.

From London to Paris and all over France, Bruges, Alsace, Eastern Germany, Switzerland, Northern Italy, Austria, Slovenia and more. Lots of new routes being opened now in Europe, and many with night trains. I don't live night trains, as I just love watching the countryside go by.

So much easier than travelling by plane, as basically town centre to town centre, rather than have to get to airports dotted all over the place with long access to and from.

And did you know that special tickets exists, from Inter-Rail and all sorts of other options. We recenty did Inter-Rail- and actually chose to pay extra for first class. Brilliant. Travel light - but access to modern trains is so much easier now, and we found people everywhere, staff or other passengers, always prepared to help. And taxis to and fro station and accomodation, or Hôtel pick up- brilliant.

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Fleurpepper Thu 26-Jan-23 15:51:05

We take a small wheeled case each- and a medium back-pack- and that is it- and choose clothing carefully for light-eight and ease of washing/no ironing.

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Fleurpepper Thu 26-Jan-23 15:59:13

lightweight!

Most modern trains do not have those huge up steps either.

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Fleurpepper Thu 26-Jan-23 16:48:01

Also if you have to change stations- just take taxis if it is too much by public transport.

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Norah Thu 26-Jan-23 17:01:33

We've used trains a couple of times, but prefer to drive/ chunnel to France or fly somewhere and rent a car.

We love driving, especially in Germany and Italy. Lead feet grin

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Fleurpepper Thu 26-Jan-23 17:05:42

We do too- and do both. Try to avoid flights whenever possible for ecological reasons. We are lucky we take it in turn to drive- but by train, we can both enjoy the views, read, snooze, walk about .. and no worry about parking, driving in town centres, etc.

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Norah Thu 26-Jan-23 17:48:12

Fleurpepper

We do too- and do both. Try to avoid flights whenever possible for ecological reasons. We are lucky we take it in turn to drive- but by train, we can both enjoy the views, read, snooze, walk about .. and no worry about parking, driving in town centres, etc.

We also go to USA fairly often, need to fly!

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Fleurpepper Thu 26-Jan-23 17:56:18

Fair enough- but this thread does say 'Europe - travel by train'

We have made the choice now to remain in Europe, partly because we can cover most of it by train. A very deliberate choice.

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