
Sunday, and the start of the second week of my trip across Europe. It’s over 600 kilometres from Bremen in Germany to Basel in Switzerland – a journey that takes almost seven and a half hours. And because this was the weekend before Easter, things were busy. Using a rail pass has many advantages, but…

It’s the morning after the night before, and reports of last night’s protests across France are all over the news. I heard sirens throughout the night, but there’s no sign that anything terrible happened, at least around the station and the hotel. The usually reliable OBB (Austrian Railways) website shows my first train to Geneva…