as soon as Covid allows it, I guess I make a weekend trip with the kids
And there is a Vienna-Bucharest route, and then a Bucharest-Istanbul route.
Meaning we are down to three connections to go from one side of the continent to the other. Here’s hoping one day there is just one.
Paris and Vienna are about 1040 km apart. The straight line as the crow flies pretty much goes over Strasbourg, to which an high speed line already heads straight from the French capital. This means that with some limited extra building effort on the other – and mostly German – half of the course we could have trains reaching Vienna in around 4 hours by day and thus no need for these night trains. Stuttgart to Munich is already upgrading.
sounds promising
Nice, it stops in Munich. 🙂
Nice, another way to leave Paris
Now if only the Balkans would start investing more in railways.
Looking at you Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro (for fucks sake that Chinese debt trap for a road), Romania and Bulgaria.
Yay
I’d love to do this one day. Trying to get from Dublin to Paris though is quite the chore.
Neat, the more night trains, the better.
I spent half an hour the other day to try and book the train but couldn’t do it over OBB or SNCF. Anybody had better luck?
Is there some secret we could learn from Ukraine? Because there sleeper trains are actually affordable for locals unlike in the EU.
I know about sleeping buses being popular and affordable in China and nonexistent in EU. That’s another part we could improve at. Buses are very economical in comparison to cars.
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as soon as Covid allows it, I guess I make a weekend trip with the kids
And there is a Vienna-Bucharest route, and then a Bucharest-Istanbul route.
Meaning we are down to three connections to go from one side of the continent to the other. Here’s hoping one day there is just one.
Paris and Vienna are about 1040 km apart. The straight line as the crow flies pretty much goes over Strasbourg, to which an high speed line already heads straight from the French capital. This means that with some limited extra building effort on the other – and mostly German – half of the course we could have trains reaching Vienna in around 4 hours by day and thus no need for these night trains. Stuttgart to Munich is already upgrading.
sounds promising
Nice, it stops in Munich. 🙂
Nice, another way to leave Paris
Now if only the Balkans would start investing more in railways.
Looking at you Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro (for fucks sake that Chinese debt trap for a road), Romania and Bulgaria.
Yay
I’d love to do this one day. Trying to get from Dublin to Paris though is quite the chore.
Neat, the more night trains, the better.
I spent half an hour the other day to try and book the train but couldn’t do it over OBB or SNCF. Anybody had better luck?
Is there some secret we could learn from Ukraine? Because there sleeper trains are actually affordable for locals unlike in the EU.
I know about sleeping buses being popular and affordable in China and nonexistent in EU. That’s another part we could improve at. Buses are very economical in comparison to cars.