Tag: Travel Blog
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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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TALLINN – ESTONIA
17/11/24 – 19/11/24 It was cold and dark when we left the Citybox Hotel in Helsinki, but with our stomachs lined with donuts and coffee, we made our way on the tram to the West Terminal harbour, to take the ferry across the Baltic Sea to the Estonian capital, Tallinn. A few companies operate this…
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ISTANBUL – TÜRKIYE (#3)
14/11/24 – 15/11/24 Unlike my experience last year, flying to Istanbul via KL, this particular journey went off without a hitch! We landed in Istanbul not long after 4pm (with my Dad in tow for another trip together!), and took the Havaist bus into the city. It was only going to be a short visit…
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CAIRO – EGYPT
7/4/24 – 10/4/24 After a mad dash through Amman’s airport (leaving the domestic arrivals area, running around like a crazy person to international departures, going through security and passport control), I made it to the gate for my flight to Cairo with a few minutes to spare. It was a relatively short and uneventful flight,…
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