Today’s live text updates
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Today’s introduction and summary videos
Morning introduction
Evening conclusion
All the #CrossBorderRail daily videos are on my Peertube channel
Today’s photos
Today’s background
Borders:
Lille 🇫🇷 – Bruxelles 🇧🇪 HSL
Aachen 🇩🇪 – Welkenraedt 🇧🇪
Distance:
1302.2
Legs:
🚆 4
⛴️ 1
🚲 3
Starting the trip north, and the very first leg is by bike – because there are few regional trains in France on Sundays. Then from Paris the speed picks up, then across Belgium and into Germany. And then finally onto a ferry to Sweden.
Today’s route
The full zoomable and scrollable map, including today’s route, is on uMap here.


