Tag: train
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Romanian time warp
Traveling to Romania is time travel. From many young people smoking cigarettes, to hay stooks, to human train signals, to 3 ticket inspectors per 5/6ths empty train, to cash only small shops, to dilapidated brutalist architecture juxtaposed to 19th century ruins. My initial exposure to all this was in Baile Herculane, a spa town on…
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The intrepid Railway Dog goes to Romania, with some learning along the way
Budapest Kelati train station has a small number of long distance trains to Romania daily, to several main cities, particularly Timisoara, Arad and Cluj Napoca. Some go on as far as Bucharest. Several are sleepers (some described by the man at seat 61, as well as one from Cluj Napoca to Budapest not mentioned there).…
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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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Austria to Slovakia
Baspie the railway dog was again tucked under a table in his Nestbedz. I had a ticket for him from a platform machine, and my Interrail ticket sorted on the app for Graz to Bratislava. The change in Vienna was easy, with boards showing platforms and all on time. Austria seems a land made of…
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Slovenia to Austria for a hike
Getting a taxi for an early train from Maribor sure was pleasant, with Baspie dog getting a few extra zzz in on my ankle. The second time on a train to Vienna but again getting off sooner, this time in Graz. Use the on platform machines to buy dog tickets (with or without human tickets)…
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Croatia to Slovenia
From Zagreb we wanted a bit of countryside. Maribor was in the vague direction of Romania, which we have a deadline to get to. Also it is supposed to be nice and has a cute open campsite. A direct train, what could possibly go wrong? Then the back of the train detached and we were…
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The long short train journey from Split to Šibenik
By train it is a 1.5 hour journey from Split to Šibenik. However, after the first train, there was a daily scheduled 3.5 hours to wait in the one horse town of Perković. Rather than causing this place to perk up and provide a place to be, the vibe maybe is what stops anyone but…
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The Ancona to Split ferry across the Adriatic
From Ancona on the East coast of Italy, ferries regularly sail to Croatia, Albania, Corfu and Greece. It’s population reflects that, and I was served lunch by a delightful Albanian woman. She told me you can take your dog on ferries to Albania too. Ancona is a beautiful little city, worth some extra time for…
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Cookies save the day
Hours of tough bus replacement service today (Šibenik to Zagreb) were relieved by strawberry and ginger oat cookies. Baspie dog and human loved them. He was so good and patient, 6 hours on a coach floor with only one comfort break! These cookies are so simple to make and unsquashable, plus you can mess around…
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Railway Dog off to Parma
This surprisingly was the InterCity train from La Spezia to Parma. It slowly squealed its way northeast away from the scrubland of the hilly Mediterranean coast to the huge flat and fertile Po valley. So much track squealing that an English woman on the train, with a brain injury causing sound sensitivity, nearly had to…
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