Travel Stuff
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Benelux Adventure – Luxembourg City
When choosing a location for a journey, I’ll often look for a place I’ve not been before. It’s amazing just how many locations are relatively close by, yet almost always overlooked. Luxembourg was one of those places. It always seemed like a small place – it covers just over 2,500 square kilometres and has a…
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Benelux Adventure – Mechelen
Discovering three cities in a single day isn’t usually achievable, but in designing this trip I’ve opted for destinations that aren’t too far apart. So, after the briefest of looks around Utrecht and Gouda, it’s s lunchtime departure for the two and a half hour journey to Mechelen in Belgium. It’s just half an hour…
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Benelux Adventure – Utrecht and Gouda
Regular readers will know that in recent years my travels have turned towards Europe and sustanability, namely using rail as my main form of transport. So perhaps it’s not that surprising to find myself in the Dutch city of Utrecht. Because this is the home of Eurail, the company that sells rail passes to people…
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Polish Adventure Part 3 – Warsaw
Wednesday is bin day in the Polish city of Lodz. I know this because I am woken at 5am by a noisy dumpster being wheeled down the alley outside the Stare Kino hotel. But breakfast is tasty enough and today’s travel time to Warsaw is just 90 minutes. Lodz Fabryczna station is eerily quiet during…
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Polish Adventure Part 2 – Lodz
One thing you quickly learn in Poland is the importance of accents on words. You can happily shout very slowly like a Brit at a confused local and get absolutely nowhere unless you write the word down. Thankfully, this potentially embarrassing situation had been sorted out before I travelled, when I told a friend I…
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Polish Adventure Part 1 – Wroclaw
Ask a typical UK traveller where they’d choose to go to in Europe and they’re likely to name one of the classically great locations : Paris, Venice or Barcelona. Yet in the height of the summer season such destinations can be enormously expensive. I’m fortunate enough to not have to travel on a budget, but…
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Part 7 – Ljubljana to Lake Bled and Villach
Distance : Ljubljana to Lake Bled – 55km Travel time : 1 Hour Just about everybody I’d mentioned my trip to insisted that I must visit Lake Bled in Slovenia. And my AI assistant provided a perfect solution. In theory I could take the trains s far as Lesce Bled and then connect to a…
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Part 6 – Trieste to Ljubljana
Distance : 94 km Travel time : 3 hours For visitors from the IUK, Ljubljana is potentially one of Europe’s most underrated destinations. And yet it’s extremely accessible, not least ifyou’re travelling by train. There are multiple connections from neighbouring Croatia (Zagreb), Austria (via Salzburg and Villach) and from my current destination of Trieste in…
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Part 5 – Lucca to Trieste
Distance : 383km Travel time : 6 hours Lucca is so well connected with railway lines, you can travel in and out one of three ways. The most popular is from Pisa, but to the west the line stretches out to the pretty coastal town of Viareggio, and to the east it follows the sceni…
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Part 4 – Bastia to Lucca
Distance : 205 Kilometres Travel time : 7 hours 6am is no joke of a time to start a day while you’re on holiday, not least when it’s 1st April. Numerous emails from Corsica Ferries had urged me to check in in good time at the ferry terminal in Bastia – and given the process…
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