Rail Europe

  1. Europe’s best hidden secrets by train

    Europe’s best hidden secrets by train

    I’ve seen the light! I’m a convert to rail travel in Europe and here’s why: No checking in at airports 2 hours before your flight, take as many water bottles as your heart desires, train stations are in city centres not miles away on the outskirts, you can move around the carriage at will, some [...]

  2. Blogging on the tracks: Bellinzona & Locarno

    Blogging on the tracks: Bellinzona & Locarno

    Day 5: Bellinzona & Locarno The sun smiled down on Lake Lucerne as our party of 12 walked in single file like ducklings with heavy wheelie bags to the boat ramp. Today we’re using our Swiss Pass to take the Wilhelm Tell Express – it’ll start with a voyage on a paddle steamer to Flüelin [...]

  3. Lucerne TN

    Blogging on the tracks: Lucerne

    Day 4: Lucerne This morning we tore ourselves away from the cuteness of Strasbourg and headed to Lucerne. Fortunately our train departed at the decent hour of 10.47am (they are very precise!) so I was able to nip out for one more photo sesh before our little party carrying the ever-strategically packed luggage assembled in [...]

  4. Blogging on the tracks: Strasbourg

    Blogging on the tracks: Strasbourg

    Day 3: Strasbourg I declare Strasbourg to be quite possibly the most picturesque city in all of Europe. It’s right over here on the French/German border and seems to have been architecturally designed with the best of both. Around every corner is yet another photo op, geraniums are out in force, but the wobbly cobblestoned [...]

  5. Blogging on the tracks: Paris

    Blogging on the tracks: Paris

    Day 2: Paris We leave Brussels nice and early (well the lady-like hour of 9.13am) bound for Paris on the speedy Thalys train. It takes 1 and a quarter hours and we arrive smack in the heart of the romantic city. The Thalys train serves food (free to us travelling in 1st class including a [...]

  6. Blogging on the tracks: Brussels

    Blogging on the tracks: Brussels

    I am about to embark on an 8-day whirl with Rail Europe from London: Belgium, France and Switzerland. 8 days in 6 different cities with 12 strangers is probably not the way most tourists would do it, but I’m here to work (ahem). Photographing millennia-old cities and experiencing the vast Rail Europe system is a [...]