Author: david

A rather quieter day today, as I was developing a bit of a cold yesterday, and am not feeling much better today, so having an early night to try and shift it. I headed out on the U-Bahn to take a look  at the Olympic Park.  The station is also by the BMW museum.  They also READ MORE

I’ve arrived in Munich. Though this train seems to be lost

We took the train to Stuttgart this morning (taking advantage of the 36Euro for 2 day tickets).  F. was keen to see the Mercedes Benz museum, so we took the S-Bahn to there. Stuttgart’s station is undergoing some major rebuilding at the moment, with the Stuttgart 21 project (opening date, erm, 2031), essentially converting it READ MORE

We’ve spent most of the day at the Technical Museum in Speyer. I’d first heard of this in an article in The Register, and thought it sounded good.  It was a lot bigger than I was expecting; I’d thought it might take a morning, but we were there almost until it closed. We’d paid a READ MORE

We left Slaffhausen quite early this morning, and got a quick picnic breakfast from the supermarket at the station, before getting  a local train to Karlsruhe.  This was a little slower than the Intercity, but much cheaper – we got a Baden-Württemberg Ticket, which was only 36Eur for both of us and gave us unlimited READ MORE

We took the Bernina Railway today, ending up in Schaffhausen, close to the German border. The railway went though stunning scenery.  We stopped of en route at Pontrenesa, and had a look round the village. An advert on the train for the railway museum also led us astray for a couple of hours. Landquart was READ MORE

After I wrote my last post on the sleeper, I had to change compartment, as it transpired when the ticket checker came round, that there were only 5 couchettes in the compartment, but 6 people.  I was redirected to another compartment, but the couchette in there was faulty, so after much discussion between the train READ MORE

I started my trip this morning from Bristol.  I’d got an earlier train than the suggested connection, so had a bit of time in London before my Eurostar to Brussels. An easy (and free) cross London transfer on Interrail by getting the Elizabeth Line and Thameslink (changing at Farringdon) to avoid the underground. I’d had READ MORE

Europe here we come

I headed back to the UK on Tuesday. I’d set Monday aside to get a box to pack my bike in, and to actually get the bike in the box. It was too hot to do much else. From reading online and asking friends who’d done similar, it’s supposed to be quite easy to get READ MORE