Interrail Trail 2023

September - November 2023

A 81-day adventure by Interrail Trail 2023 Read more

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- Sep 4, 2023, 1:32pm
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Altitude: 213 ft
- England Shavington cum Gresty Crewe 53.099615, -2.44146353°5’59” N 2°26’29” W
Day 1
Crewe
September 4, 2023 in England ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Here we go! 🚋
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- Sep 4, 2023, 4:45pm
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Altitude: 43 ft
- England Greater London Lambeth Imperial War Museum 51.495751, -0.10860451°29’45” N 0°6’31” W
Day 1
Imperial War Museum London
September 4, 2023 in England ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
A little stop off in at the IWM before the trip begins!

A visit to see "the car", part of Artist Jeremy Deller's It Is What It Is Project. It was a car bombed in Baghdad on 5th March 2007, which killed 38 people and wounded many others. An everyday object that is a reminder of the impact of war on civilians.

Unexpectedly, there was a section of the Berlin Wall... I'm looking forward to finding out more about this when I get to Germany 🇩🇪

But first, on to Paris!Read more
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- Sep 5, 2023, 11:00am
- ☀️ 24 °C
- Altitude: 98 ft
- France Île-de-France Paris Paris 01 Ancien - Quartier Champs-Élysées Flame of Liberty Memorial 48.864183, 2.30087648°51’51” N 2°18’3” E
Day 2
Flame of Liberty
September 5, 2023 in France ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
A successful first journey on the Metro and of all the places to surface, the exit to the stop I needed just so happened to be at the Princess Diana Memorial ❤️
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- Sep 6, 2023, 10:00am
- ☀️ 23 °C
- Altitude: 249 ft
- France Île-de-France Paris Paris 01 Ancien - Quartier Champs-Élysées Arc de Triomphe 48.873779, 2.29503748°52’26” N 2°17’42” E
Day 3
Arc de Triomphe
September 6, 2023 in France ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
18204 steps yesterday, and I have a feeling it is going to be another big step day again today!

The first stop Arc de Triomphe. Inspired by the Arch of Titus in Rome, Napoleon commissioned it to honour those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and later WWI. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from WW1 to represent the 1.3 million French soldiers who gave their lives.

The Arc de Triomphe has an overall height of 50m (164 ft), with 284 steps to the top. The view was totally worth it, unlike my pictures with my selfie stick 😆Read more
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- Sep 6, 2023, 12:00pm
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Altitude: 85 ft
- France Île-de-France Paris Austerlitz Place Jeanne-d'Arc 48.832464, 2.3725648°49’57” N 2°22’21” E
Day 3
La Felicità
September 6, 2023 in France ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Lunch 🍽

Found this place in a travel magazine, and it definitely did not disappoint! Housed in an old rail freight building, it has italian inspired food, cafés and bars to choose from.

Oh, and I bumped into a familiar face! 🤩Read more
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- Sep 6, 2023, 6:00pm
- ☀️ 31 °C
- Altitude: 830 ft
- France Nouvelle-Aquitaine Limoges 45.835424, 1.26448545°50’8” N 1°15’52” E
Day 3
Limoges
September 6, 2023 in France ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
French national rail caught to my next stop, Limoges, for my day trip out tomorrow.

19,718 🚶‍♀️... respectable!
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- Sep 7, 2023, 9:00am
- ☀️ 20 °C
- Altitude: 886 ft
- France Nouvelle-Aquitaine Oradour-sur-Glane 45.932778, 1.032545°55’58” N 1°1’57” E
Day 4
Oradour-sur-Glane
September 7, 2023 in France ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
First 🚌

After practising the French for a return ticket and being a solo passenger (except for a guy who worked there!), I arrived at Oradour-sur-Glane.

10th June 1944, the village was in Nazi-occupied France and was destroyed when 643 civilians, including non-combatant men, women, and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company as collective punishment for resistance activity against Nazi-occupation.

Their faces were placed on a picture wall, and knowing that they had all been burnt to ensure that they could not be identified was the hardest part to hear 😥. The museum noted it as a war crime and that this happened in several Nazi-occupied areas to deter uprisings.Read more
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- Sep 7, 2023, 9:30pm
- 🌙 25 °C
- Altitude: 1,280 ft
- France Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Clermont-Ferrand 45.777455, 3.08194345°46’39” N 3°4’55” E
Day 4
Clermont-Ferrand
September 7, 2023 in France ⋅ 🌙 25 °C
3 Trains later, and a first 1 hour delay, I have finally arrived!
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- Sep 8, 2023, 8:00pm
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Altitude: 1,230 ft
- France Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Clermont-Ferrand 45.772319, 3.08848245°46’20” N 3°5’19” E
Day 5
Lecoq
September 8, 2023 in France ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Despite suffering from heat exhaustion 🥵, today didn't turn out badly after all!

I met a lovely French lady, and thanks to Google Translate, we managed to arrange an evening walk to the city park. A colonial garden with 2 sequoia trees in which had recently been struck by lightning 🌩

I felt it was a lovely reminder that beauty is retained despite what life throws at you 💚

And, I still managed 13,463 steps!Read more
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- Sep 9, 2023, 9:45am
- ☀️ 21 °C
- Altitude: 4,665 ft
- France Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Saint-Genès-Champanelle Laschamp Monts Dômes 45.771944, 2.962545°46’19” N 2°57’45” E
Day 6
Puy de Dôme
September 9, 2023 in France ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
🚌 #2

Still suffering from heat exhaustion, it was a blessing that my paragliding was cancelled. Although, I wasn't thinking that when I was watching everyone else take off!

Puy de Dôme is a lava dome and one of the youngest in a chain of 80 now extinct volcanoes, including numerous cinder cones, lava domes and maars close to the edge of a tectonic plate. It was created some 10,700 years ago. 🌋

I had to take the train rather than walk, which I had planned, but it didn't spoil the view.

To quote Arnie, "I'll be back"!Read more
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