Tag: Hungary
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First train in Latvia. There are only 2 trains a week from Liepaja, to the capital Riga, between these two different worlds
I’m excited to be on the mythical Saturday morning train to Riga from Liepaja with Railway Dog. The only other train out of here is the Sunday evening one, except for a a daily service during a couple of high season months. It might be one of the largest towns, but only freight and seasonal…
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Sleeping on a seat overnight from Budapest to Krakow
This was one of the times when travelling with a dog too big to put in a case was a problem. There are lovely sleeping cars from Budapest to Prague, Berlin, Krakow and Warsaw. However a pet without a box can’t be booked into them. So I had to book an ordinary seat and a…
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Budapest underwhelms dog and human
For a dog, the Pest side of the river Danube has few parks, dirty pavements, and many oblivious legs. (When we returned a week later we discovered Buda is much nicer for dogs, full of greenery, paths and parks). The human found many things to look at, but the experience on the street is mostly…
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Bratislava to Budapest with a happy doggy hike stop-off on the way
We took an early train to Budapest so we could get out in the incised meanders of the River Danube on the way there, for a hilly hike. The international train between the Slovakian and Hungarian capitals fortunately stopped at the little station of Nagymaros-Visigrad. The viewing tower at the top is said to have…
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