Morgen geht's los, 2 Wochen #Interrail #Backpacking mit K1. Mal sehen wo es uns hin treibt. Gesetzt ist Rom/Vatikan, Neapel/Vesuv und Wien Freunde besuchen #Papasein

Tomorrow another weeklong trip to Switzerland will start for me. Besides sleeping the first night in Zurich, nothing is 100 % safe yet. I am hopefully going for a four day hike from hut to hut starting at Oberalppass on Sunday, but am not sure about my hip (very slight pain for the last two days).

Any ideas what to visit in Switzerland in case I need to cancel the hikes?

Had a day left on my #Interrail ticket, so now I'm en route into the Scottish Borders with my #bike. The plan is to be back home tonight after 80-100km of cycling.

The Borders railway has only one space for 2 bikes per train, except if it is carrying 1 wheelchair instead. An odd choice for a train to such a beautiful biking destination - but today I was lucky and got on the first train no problem.

A storm gathers over Potsdam, viewed from the tower of St Nicholas Church.

I can't visit somewhere new without climbing a tower to get some perspective. €5 well spent. #potsdam #interrail

In case it’s of help to others: last month I booked a Nightjet from München Ost to Venezia Santa Lucia for next week.

Last week the Interrail app stopped showing it. A few days later, DB Navigator said it was no longer in the timetable. Today ÖBB sent me a similar message.

Confusingly, searching for alternatives got me very little. Most options wanted me to join the train at 2am at Salzburg. But looking at the route, the train is still departing from Stuttgart, and is only missing out München.

I thought that a 23:02 departure from Augsburg sounded like a much more reasonable suggestion.

The ÖBB website was a mess, and I eventually called the customer helpline. The agent assured me that: 1) they only ever sell one booking per bunk per trip on nightjets, and 2) the #Interrail supplements were the same price regardless of distance. So my reservation, despite specifically saying München on it was valid from any station on the train’s route.

I guess we’ll see.

Ett blogginlägg om Interrail Plus:

https://trainfo.eu/blog/2025/07/16/tankar-kring-interrail-plus/

#TIL: wenn die #SNCF von „billet“ spricht, dann meint sie primär den #Interrail-Zuschlag (bei Interrail überall als Reservierung bezeichnet), nicht das eigentliche Ticket von Interrail. (Aus der SNCF-Lounge gesendet.)

Der zustand der #DB Züge sind eigentlich ziemlich gut, im Vergleich zu den Zügen in #Schottland... Dafür sind die #UK Züge um einiges pünktlicher...

A wander around Berlin ten years after the last one. That same strange feeling of criss-crossing east and west, knowing that moving across the city was once a very different, very deadly experience.

You'd think we'd have learnt our lesson about walls and borders, about cooperation instead of isolation. The additional Brexit border checks on my journey suggest otherwise. #walking #berlin #interrail

#Trains2Tatras moves on from Slovakia's Tatra Mountains today.
Keeping the hashtag as I trundle on to Cymru via #Regiojet to Prague, overnight #EuropeanSleeper to Brussels, then #Eurostar to London – for the convenience of all who have sensibly muted. And cos I can't think of a decent alternative.
#EuropeanRail #Interrail

Asking the #train crowd:

For a friend's #interrail trip I want a reservation from Malmö via CPH & HH to Berlin.

#DB doesn't offer reservation for the regional train from Malmö (they say it's fully booked, but it probably doesn't offer any reservations).

Booking a reservation from CPH-BER with DB they say they can't send me a PDF or a downloadable reservation.
On the #DSB international reservation I can't choose a longer changing time in HH. Railplanner charges much more.

Where to book?

And we start off on another #Interrail adventure with a regional train from Agrigento Centrale to Palermo Centrale. This will be the first 2 hours of a 27-hour trip, accompanied by the amazing @dubiousblur, and ending in Torino tomorrow afternoon.

This Alstom Coradia “Minuetto” EMU is pretty comfortable, has level access and space for bikes, and an accessible toilet.

It’s one of several different Coradias I’ve seen in Italy, all with music-themed names. I’ve also seen “Jazz” and “Pop” models, and I gather “Rock” is also an option.

Whilst not exactly a fast train, I suspect it’s more to do with line restrictions, as it’s an old mountain route that is mostly single track, than anything else. Yesterday’s trip down on this unit was on time at most of the stations, and in fact arrived 4 mins early at the terminus.

Klaar met school, op naar de vakantie! Drie (of meer) maanden #interrail, eerst naar Tsjechië, dan Polen en Estland, snuffelen aan de grens met Rusland.

https://www.baseneelco.nl/2025/07/13/komende-maanden-interrailen-door-europa/

I have an #interrail question. https://www.interrail.eu/en/support/interested-in-interrailing/what-is-a-travel-day states about "what is a travel day" and night trains:

* If you don't have a changeover after midnight then that only counts as one travel day instead of 2
* but somehow this does not work on the last day of the pass? ("Note: you cannot use your Eurail Pass to take a night train on your last travel day as the validity period will expire at 23:59.")

The second part is oddly confusing to me right now. Can someone confirm/explain that?

Does anyone know of a way to get from Germany to Sweden within a single day that doesn't involve flying or the EC train from Hamburg to Copenhagen?

The latter is fully booked, I was too late to reserve a seat... I plan to leave in 1 week.

Wie ich mein #Interrail Ticket rumzeige, um alle möglichen Rabatte abzustauben