Interrail

DRAFT Phew! What a trip, What a holiday! We saw amazing things, we had great experiences, and we aren't ever doing anything like it ever again! (See the second part of this entry linked here for all the reasons) This was the final part of a

Here’s an account of our very successful train & ferry trip to the South of France in May 2025. This was originally published in a lot more detail at https://mikefromlfe.mataroa.blog/ – this is a condensed summary. Our plan was to head for

I’m asked occasionally how I go about planning my train trip holidays – and so here is an attempt to describe my process. Be warned – it’s ‘fuzzy’! Of course you don’t have to do all the planning for a non-fly holiday (or trip)

There is currently a lot of enthusiasm for the revitalisation of the Night Train network across Europe. Night Trains fell into decline as High Speed Rail networks expanded and low cost airlines sucked us in - but as the realisation of the costs of

It was 2023 and life seemed to be back to some sort of normal at last. We were able to think about filling in the gaps of our aborted 6 week long Interrail trip planned for just the moment the pandemic hit in 2020. The gap this holiday was designed

As I mentioned in my post of August 12th last year we are going to the south of France this May. I was intending to delay booking this until the last possible moment - which for me was the 17th March to allow for the various booking windows to be

I've realised that our main trip of 2024 to Germany by way of the Netherlands is split over a number of posts and there's no straightforward description of the whole journey. It was a great trip with no major disasters - a couple of lessons learned,

I was awake before the ferry docked at Harwich, but that wasn't a problem as it gave me time to reflect and get my bearings. As usual we were turfed out of our cabin smartish upon the car decks being opened - no time for a leisurely start really. I

That was an entertaining half hour! We don't follow football but we're aware of the Euro tournament that's on at the moment. We decided to eat this evening in a local bar in Hook of Holland (The Harwich) and the footie was on the big screen. Georgia

After last night's Italian I had indigestion in the night again and subsequently am really tired today - it's a good job that today was going to be straightforward It was rather odd that the station at Binz had so few seats - there were constantly