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Budapest, Hungary

The arrival I get off the train at 11pm after a really nice and smooth ride and only 20 minutes late, which is much better than what everyone has led me to expect from Eastern European trains. From the train station, I make my first terrible mistake: I hail a taxi instead of using an…

2024-04-15 | 2,329 Mots | 1 Commentaire

Zagreb, Croatia

Going to Zagreb The train from Bled to Zagreb, by way of Ljubljana, is extremely slow. It’s also incredibly beautiful (you might be sick of me calling everything beautiful, but it’s not my fault, everything really is!!). The railway follows a perfectly turquoise river for a solid hour. At one point, the last stop before…

2024-04-13 | 2,693 Mots | Commenter

Slovenian lakes

Arrival The Lesce-Bled train station has two quays and you go to the second quay by walking over the first one, which is something I hadn’t seen in a decade and a half. I love it. The walk to the hostel is short, if you don’t get lost. My walk to the hostel includes a…

2024-04-11 | 1,508 Mots | 1 Commentaire

Ljubljana, Slovenia

As I arrive, exhausted and dehydrated, in Ljubljana, I expect to have the worst possible time going to the train station. Instead, I stroll to the hotel in a 5-minute walk and the first thing that really hits me is the smell – at this hour, without any cars and in empty streets, Ljubljana smells…

2024-04-09 | 1,436 Mots | Commenter

when I come back

when I come back from the trip I will: definitely take the time to add alt text to all photos from the trip (very hard with my current setup) definitely take the time to create a nice page with the itinerary and link to the post for each place I visited probably create a download…

2024-04-08 | 166 Mots | 2 Commentaires

Trieste, Italy

Day 1 It’s Trieste time!! When I arrive, my first feeling is one of anxiety. There’s something about the (gorgeous) neoclassical architecture that just isn’t working for me, and I dont know what it is. Until, after a few hours, I understand my issue: Trieste is tiny Vienna. Nothing against Vienna – in fact, I…

2024-04-08 | 1,165 Mots | 1 Commentaire

Venice, Italy

From Bologna to Venezia The landscape on the train is lovely, with many bright colored houses. I would definitely stop and spend part of the day in Padova if my leg allowed for it, since my train stops there for a few minutes. Unfortunately I know it will ruin the rest of the day, so…

2024-04-06 | 1,517 Mots | Commenter

Bologna, Italy

In my last post, I left you a few minutes before being given a snack and then being fined 10 euros for having taken the wrong train? That is: I got the train that left from quay 2 at 1.50pm for Bologna instead of the train that left from quay 2 at 2pm for Bologna.…

2024-04-04 | 1,261 Mots | Commenter

Turin, Italy

Day 1: strolling around I am delighted to announce that the first thing that happened when I got out of the hostel this morning was running into a woman on a bike, telling her friend: « ma la pasta era buona! » (« but the pasta was good! »). I’m in Italy alright! I like Torino, I really do…

2024-04-02 | 1,419 Mots | 1 Webmention | Commenter

Grenoble to Torino

Because all trips have to start somewhere. I left home at 3.30pm, ready to take the first few trains: one to Chambéry, then a whole adventure ending in Torino a bit before 10pm. (Good thing summer time started today, or I’d be exhausted.) This first journey is the biggest hassle I’ll have of the entire…

2024-04-01 | 477 Mots | Commenter

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