{"id":34899,"date":"2026-03-19T08:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/34899\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:41:12","slug":"night-train-to-denmark-journey-from-zurich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/34899\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Train to Denmark: Journey from Zurich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        After Swiss lawmakers pulled the plug on a proposed Basel-Malm\u00f6 night train service, Swissinfo journalist Kristian Brandt and his daughter set off to test another way north. Their 24-hour rail adventure to Scandinavia reveals both the hurdles and the promise of long-distance rail travel as an alternative to flying.\n<\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        March 19, 2026 &#8211; 09:00\n<\/p>\n<p>Join Kristian and his daughter on the the night train from Zurich to Hamburg, Germany, from where they continue their rail journey to Fredericia and Struer in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Night-train-thumbnailnew2.jpg\" width=\"2941\" height=\"2210\" alt=\"A father and daughter on the night train from Switzerland to Denmark.\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Climate adaptation\n        <\/p>\n<p>        We travelled from Switzerland to Denmark by train \u2013 the journey took 24 hours    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Mar 19, 2026                    <\/p>\n<p>                There is no direct night train from Switzerland to Denmark. We tried to reach Scandinavia by rail anyway.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/climate-adaptation\/we-travelled-from-switzerland-to-denmark-by-train-the-journey-took-24-hours\/91028012\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: We travelled from Switzerland to Denmark by train \u2013 the journey took 24 hours<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        Articles in this story    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Swiss lawmakers pulled the plug on a proposed Basel-Malm\u00f6 night train service, Swissinfo journalist Kristian Brandt and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[454,453,456,328,458,334,335,332,330,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-34899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zurich","8":"tag-beat-climate-adaptation","9":"tag-beat-climate-solutions","10":"tag-energy-saving","11":"tag-environmental-politics","12":"tag-global-warming","13":"tag-production-type-adaptation","14":"tag-type-video","15":"tag-vertical-video-9x16","16":"tag-video","17":"tag-zurich"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116254951668702180","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}