Scenic Trips
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EuroCity Emona – scenic once daily train from Ljubljana 🇸🇮 to Vienna 🇦🇹
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The EuroCity Emona train is a once daily cross-border service for travel between Austria, Slovenia, and Italy. The ride offers scenic views and a very unique dining car experience!
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Simply spectacular! Oslo 🇳🇴 to Bergen 🇳🇴 by daytime train
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The Bergensbanen is Norway’s stunning cross-country route from Oslo to Bergen, offering breathtaking scenery and a considered range of accommodation onboard. Fares are reasonable, making this seven-hour journey a must for travellers seeking natural beauty!
5–8 minutes -
Across Slovakia with ZSSK – amazing trip from Bratislava 🇸🇰 to Košice 🇸🇰
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Providing a vital link between the capital and the north and east of the country, the trains between Bratislava and Košice provide all the amenities you need. The trains offer a choice of accommodation and a wonderful restaurant carriage, and, if you’re lucky, you may travel with one of the most unique restaurant carriages in…
6–9 minutes -
InterCity Slovenia-style! Scenic run from Ljubljana 🇸🇮 to Maribor 🇸🇮 by Pendolino train
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A spectacular journey through Slovenia onboard the futuristic InterCity Slovenia pendolino trains that tilt on corners to reduce journey times!
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Hungary’s bizarre InterCity train – Budapest Keleti 🇭🇺 to Budapest Nyugati 🇭🇺 in 6 hours!
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The InterCity Tokaj circular train route in Hungary is a strange one on face value. Find out what the experience like onboard and why I’d recommend it as a relaxing day trip on extended stays in Budapest – all while sampling MÁV’s brand new luxury Premium Class!
6–9 minutes -
EuroCity Hungaria: Budapest 🇭🇺 to Hamburg 🇩🇪 via four capitals – a European adventure!
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One train, one day and four capitals. This trip across Europe promised to be a exciting adventure but what was it like and did it live up to expectations? Find out as I took the all day train in First Class.
6–10 minutes -
Amtrak Empire Builder: Seattle 🇺🇸 and Portland 🇺🇸 to Chicago 🇺🇸 – the cross-country route that has it all!
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Connecting the Pacific Northwest with the vibrant city of Chicago is the Empire Builder – one of Amtrak’s ‘ultra-long distance’ rail services running across the north of the country. This journey was a feast for the eyes, and that wasn’t just the food in the onboard Dining Car, with the varied landscapes made this trip…
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The railway with UNESCO World Heritage Site Status – the Swiss Albula Railway 🇨🇭
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The slower but very pleasant alternative to the Glacier Express with perfect scenery on offer on one of the Swiss routes with UNESCO World Heritage Site status – the Albula Railway from Disentis to St. Moritz.
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The famous Glacier Express train 🇨🇭 – an honest review (we left the train early)
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The must-do Glacier Express is well known across the world for its stunning route with non-stop scenery on the route. Find out what the journey was like and why we decided to leave the train early.
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Paris 🇫🇷 to Milan 🇮🇹 by train the Italian way – onboard the new Frecciarossa service!
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The route from Paris to Milan has a new high-speed service served by the Italian flagship high-speed train, the Frecciarossa. This operates in competition to the legacy French TGV. Find out what is on offer on this brand new service.
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Milan 🇮🇹 to Geneva 🇨🇭 by tilting EuroCity train – scenic trip through the Alps!
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One of the many direct train services connecting northern Italy and Switzerland is the EuroCity from Milan to Geneva, but how did the journey fair in the world of high speed rail?
5–7 minutes -
Amtrak Coast Starlight – San Francisco 🇺🇸 to Los Angeles 🇺🇸 by train – the most scenic route in the US?
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You’ll see a lot less coast than you might expect on this trip, but it makes up for it in many other ways. A perfect day out along California’s coast.
8–13 minutes -
Amtrak Capitol Limited – Washington D.C. 🇺🇸 to Chicago 🇺🇸 by sleeper train
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This was my first overnight train trip in the United States. What was it like on the Amtrak Capitol Limited and how did I save money on the Superliner Roomette fare?
9–14 minutes -
RailJet train across the Alps 🗻 – Zürich 🇨🇭 to Vienna 🇦🇹 via the scenic Arlberg Pass
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The train from Switzerland to Austria across the striking Alpine scenery of the Arlberg Pass, through Tyrol to Innsbruck and Vienna and crossing five borders. This trip is more than your regular daily passenger service.
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Back after 8 years – Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina 🇧🇦 to Ploče, Croatia 🇭🇷 by train
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What it is like to travel on the recently reopened summer-only passenger train route between Bosnia & Herzegovina and Croatia.
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Holidaying with the Hungarians – Adria InterCity sleeper train from Split 🇭🇷 to Budapest 🇭🇺
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The comfortable way to travel between Split, Croatia and Budapest, Hungary is on the popular Adria InterCity train. Find out all about it and what happened when weather disrupted our trip.
7–10 minutes
