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Interrail Trip Europe 2023
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Interrail Trip Europe 2023

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    23. tammikuuta 2023
  • Paul DochertyInterrail Trip Europe 2023Matkaaja

    Vienna

    1. helmikuuta 2023, Itävalta ⋅ 🌬 5 °C

    After leaving our hotel which was a classic faded glory place unchanged since about 1972, complete with a Ned Boulting wardrobe…Whistle stop walk around Vienna after orientation on Trams 1+2 which cover the route of the tourist ring tram. Beautiful sandwiches at Buffet Trzesniewski Dorotheergasse with a beer small enough that a) we could afford it and b) we could handle it in daytîme! (Thanks for the recommandation Anne!). The pictures speak for themselves of Vienna!Lue lisää

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    Budapest

    4. helmikuuta 2023, Unkari ⋅ 🌬 2 °C

    What a city Budapest is. We don’t have the time to tick off sights on this trip and, anyway, prefer to wander, look and see everyday life. However, we’ve had a look inside the Parliament building, lounged around in the thermal spa at Szechenyi Bath while it snowed on us, had a backstreet traditional Hungarian-Jewish meal and just walked loads. I’m still rehabbing but Caroline ran around the beautiful 5k track on Margaret Island.Lue lisää

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    Prague 1

    7. helmikuuta 2023, Tšekin tasavalta ⋅ ☀️ -1 °C

    Great to be able to visit Prague in Winter when it’s a bit quieter. Stunningly beautiful on a cold sunny day. Walked around the main sights in the morning and spent the afternoon at the Museum of Communism. The museum was so good and all the more so having just walked some of the squares and streets where key events in the modern history of the Czech Republic took place.Lue lisää

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    Prague to Krakow

    9. helmikuuta 2023, Puola ⋅ 🌙 -6 °C

    Every train trip has been different. This morning was lively. Teenagers, babies, people struggling to find tickets. Just before the Polish border, the train splits into two, so worth avoiding a stroll down the train.

    We left early. The train was about 7h, so only a few pics of Prague station and the journey.    Lue lisää

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    Krakow to Bialystok via Warsaw

    12. helmikuuta 2023, Puola ⋅ ⛅ -1 °C

    Left Krakow in the morning; a leisurely change of trains in Warsaw. Impressed with Warsaw’s modern, spacious and impeccably clean station which was more like an airport. Arrived in the city of Bialystok at teatime; for an overnight stay. Walked through the town at twilight. A grand wide Main Street almost all laid out for walking. Families out walking - it felt like eating out night for families. In Britain this would be a sea of parked cars.Lue lisää

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    Bialystok to Vilnius

    13. helmikuuta 2023, Liettua

    Every train day is different and this one was no exception. A fairly rammed train from Bialystok meandered up through Northern Poland. The full house of train theatre… folk with the wrong ticket, louder people who were a bit oiled (felt like London-NCL on a Sunday evening). The landscape arable farmland and lots of scrub/forest with tall trees. We crossed the border and at the first stop inside Lithuania, we crossed the platform onto a Lithuanian train. A totally different train but the same reservation numbers; in much smaller seat. The first train in the trip with something approaching airline stinginess of leg room. Arrived at clean, Vilnius station and walked to our hotel. This city looks interesting but I need some daylight!Lue lisää

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    Vilnius

    14. helmikuuta 2023, Liettua

    A gem of a city. Compared to others we’ve been to on this trip it seemed relaxed, uncrowded. There was a young and positive vibe to this city. A historic centre, immaculately preserved surrounded by very varied neighbourhoods… buisness, commercial, bohemian, embassy-land and green. Definitely feeling Baltic in terms of architecture and the general ambience, with a smattering of Russian, Belarusian and Ukranian people around.Lue lisää

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    Vilnius to Tallin via Riga

    15. helmikuuta 2023, Viro ⋅ ☁️ 0 °C

    A temporary hiatus in the rail trip today as we took to the bus as there are no direct rail connections between Vilnius and Tallin. Until they come (via the ambitious Rail Baltica high-speed line co-resourced by the EU), it’s the bus via Riga. We left Vilnius in the dark and drove through long tracts of coniferous and birch forest between arable farms. Interspersed, small towns, many looking as if they were suffering from urban drift. We only stopped briefly in Riga to change buses, but the bus station area looked markedly more run town than the similar area in Vilnius.

    It was strange to see buses doing the run to St Petersburg; although not too far, I thought those runs might be sanctioned.

    From there on, more forest; a few glimpses of the sea (Gulf of Riga), more forest, more forest…and then the beginning of a slight Scandinavian look to the housing as we approached Tallin, which itself seems peppered with functional unashamed modernism. We’ll see what Tallin is like in more detail when the sun rises…    Lue lisää

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    Ferry Terminal to Helsinki Stokholm etc.Memorial to the MV Estonia DisasterFlower StallsRussian Embassy, Tallin

    Tallin

    16. helmikuuta 2023, Viro

    Another amazing city. As is common, Tallin has a compact old town surrounded by the more modern areas and of course a large port complex. Ran 6k first thing along the seafront in light snow and icy underfoot.

    Keeping up the modern history theme of the trip, we visited the Museum of Occupation which looks at Tallinn’s periods of Nazi and Soviet control, mainly through the eyes of video testimony of survivors. Later a walk around the old town and port area. We walked past several embassies which are mostly old buildings fronting small narrow streets on the old town.

    Tallin is beautiful and definitively Baltic but with a Scandi influence. A few pics below    Lue lisää

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    Tallin to Helsinki

    17. helmikuuta 2023, Suomi

    We left Tallin late in the morning on one of the Viking Lines ferries to Helsinki. The breakfast brunch was mahoosive and ended up seeing us through the whole day. It was a bleak grey day with intermittent showers but a calm sea.

    The ferry was a huge car ferry so the navigation through the channel between the islands off Helsinki was quite dramatic. It probably won’t show on video but I’ll attach it.

    Helsinki obviously feels big and busy compared to Tallin. We found lots of the watery areas around the hotel are frozen when we went to reccie the local Parkrun course - hoping conditions are okay underfoot to run this in the morning.    Lue lisää

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    Helsinki

    18. helmikuuta 2023, Suomi

    It snowed overnight so we wondered if Parkrun might be off… But of course not! A hardy crowd of friendly locals and tourists turned up. Ran a steady but so enjoyable run in lovely grippy snow, followed by Coffee and Cinnamon buns in a cafe with some of the runners.

    The rest of the day was exploring Helsinki by walking. It was great looking at everything… standout was Helsinki’s stunningly modern ‘Oodi’ central library - the city’s living room. Workspace, massive reading areas, play areas, sewing machines, 3D printers, all the newspapers and magazines, cafes, meeting rooms… Such a great concept. Just nearby we came across a small ‘anti-vax’ demonstration.    Lue lisää

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    Helsinki to Kemi

    19. helmikuuta 2023, Suomi

    Well the trip up Finland to Kemi was today. Somehow we’d imagined small trains meandering through valleys, Alpine style. In fact it was state of the art intercity trains going at 200km/h packed full of people. It’s school holidays here, and it seems people from the south of the country head north.

    It was a snow-covered landscape the whole way-
    Mainly coniferous trees, weighed down with pure white snow - beautiful. Small wooden houses and occasional large farms with an even more occasional town scattered around.

    We changed trains in Oulu and the second train had many young people in Finnish Army fatigues, maybe heading north for a National Service camp.

    So, we arrived in Kemi at a hostel. Good, relaxed, quirky place with, thank goodness, opening windows (though -10 degrees outside) and no air-con so no chance of over-heating and waking up like a dry prune… yay!

    Kemi is a stopover for us but we’ll have a look around tomorrow.    Lue lisää

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    Kemi

    20. helmikuuta 2023, Suomi

    Kemi feels quite out of season as it largely seems to be a summer resort town; for us, a staging post on the journey towards Sweden. A few older buildings are surrounded by more modern buildings in a grid pattern a bit like small Canadian towns.

    We stayed near the sea, the northern part of the Baltic called the Gulf of Bothnia, which here is completely frozen over and has the appearance of a completely flat field - see the photos. People walk over it and snowmobiles cross it.

    It was -7 outside and felt colder due to a bit of a gusty wind.

    Quite a lot of cloud means we’re very unlikely to get a chance to see any Aurora displays though we’ll see if any possibilities come in the next couple of days.

    Tomorrow we have to take another bus to the border with Sweden as the single daily train is very early morning.    Lue lisää

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