#CrossBorderRail so far
399
Border lines
investigated
1086
Trains taken
166310km
229
Bike stages
5451km
News
First funding goal reached: #CrossBorderRail is ON
The tremendous news: the crowdfunding of #CrossBorderRail has already been successful enough, just 24 hours after starting the project, to cover the costs of 40 days of the trip (€4096 is necessary to finance the project). That means I know that – barring something unexpected – I am going to be […]
Should I even be attempting this journey?
To be honest, I have wondered. Should I be attempting a 40-day, 28 country trip while the COVID pandemic is not done, and with a war in Ukraine raging on the border of the European Union? But for now, I think the answer is yes, I should go ahead. I […]
Open source mapping tools
One of the headaches when planning the #CrossBorderRail trip was to be able to map railway routes adequately accurately. The number of railway routing tools available in public is considerably fewer than for road transport! But on this – as on so many other railway topics – it was a […]
The Kaunas-Suwałki headache
Kaunas – the second city of Lithuania – is European Capital of Culture in 2022. But trying to get from Lithuania to either Latvia or Poland is – at the time of writing – impossible by train. And that despite the future Rail Baltica route connecting Poland with the Baltics […]
A previous trip to Gorizia – Nova Gorica
One of the joys of preparing the website for this project has been to look back over the pictures taken at previous trips to some of these borders within the EU. Gorizia (IT) – Nova Gorica (SI) is one of the most fascinating, not least because the border between the […]
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