#CrossBorderRail so far
428
Border lines
investigated
1220
Trains taken
189368km
259
Bike stages
6146km
News
Planning nightmares in Sweden and Spain
My #CrossBorderRail trip is due to start just over 5 weeks from now. But two parts of the trip – in Sweden on 18-19 June, and Spain on 3 July – are giving me no end of problems. At the time of writing I do not know if two trains […]
So what are those “rail postcards” you mention? And who’s going to get them?
In years past I used to have a series on my blog called “Rail Postcards“. When one of my rail trips went wrong I would take a picture of the town where I was, mock up a kind of postcard, and then write a blog post as if it were […]
Days 13 and 14 replanned to enter Switzerland at Delle
I’ve made a small change to the route on Days 13 and 14. Instead of taking the train from Lyon to Genève in Switzerland on Day 13, I will instead stay in France – in Lons-le-Saunier. Then on Day 14 I will take regional trains via Besançon-Viotte and Belfort and […]
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 […]
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