Tag: Europe
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KOSICE – SLOVAKIA
1/12/24 – 3/12/24 Chop Railway Station, on Ukraine’s western border, sits a few hundred metres from both Slovakia and Hungary, the current eastern frontier of the European Union. Despite the small size of the town, Chop’s station was full of people, all heading west into the rest of Europe. As a border post, the station…
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LVIV – UKRAINE
28/11/24 – 1/12/24 The sky was still pitch-black in Krakow as our Regiojet train to Przemysl trundled into the station. We had a long-ish journey ahead of us – a few hours to Przemysl, immigration formalities at the Polish border, followed up finally with a few hours on the train to Lviv! Given we were…
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WARSAW – POLAND
26/11/24 – 27/11/24 A quick cross-platform train change as Mockava, and a cursory glance at passports by the Polish border guards, and we were on our way to the capital, Warsaw! Despite being to Poland before, I’d never had the chance to check it out – the train route we were taking offered us the…
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KAUNAS – LITHUANIA
25/11/24 – 26/11/24 After a fantastic two days in Vilnius, it was time to head to Lithuania’s second city – Kaunas! Selected as a European Capital of Culture in 2022, this city of around 400,000 people is the fourth-largest in the Baltic region, and is located just over an hour by train from Vilnius. We…
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VILNIUS – LITHUANIA
23/11/24 – 25/11/24 The LTG-Link train connecting Riga and Vilnius has only been running for 11 months – but it plugs an important a gap in the rail network, especially before the Rail Baltica project is complete in 2028. The comfortable train took 4.5 hours, and pulled into Vilnius Railway Station at 8pm on the…
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RIGA – LATVIA
20/11/24 – 23/11/24 We’d gotten back to Valga Station with some time to spare, which we spent walking over the pedestrian bridge across the railway, checking out some of the old locomotives that had been left there (some of them certainly looked abandoned!). Finally, our train arrived, and we were able to get on board…
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TARTU – ESTONIA
19/11/24 – 20/11/24 We woke up to find Tallinn had been blanketed with a small layer of snow overnight – making our walk to the railway station a very pretty one! A park in Tallinn near the railway station, decorated in a light layer of snow Unfortunately, our trip to Tartu was going to be…
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