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I did Berlin to Sofia last year. Took the sleeper from Budapest to Bucharest, that was fine and a bit of an adventure. Had a 4 berth to ourselves as it was quiet. Got woken in the middle of the night for passports but think schengen applies now. Day train, Ruse to Sofia, was really scenic as...

Road down the Chilean side

Took a bus ride from Mendoza in Argentina, to Santiago, in Chile this week. The route, in Argentina at least, largely followed the route of the Trans Andean railway that closed in the 1980s. The infrastructure, including rails, all looks to be still be in place, but rather overgrown and not in a...

Was on Lighthouse Beach, just south of Port Macquarie, a couple of weeks ago. Fantastic and almost deserted.

Just travelled on the Great Southern from Adelaide to Brisbane. Three days and two night travel with off train excursions organised. Great food and drinks options and the sleepers were fine. 1970s stainless steel carriages that are usually used for The Ghan, up to Darwin. Had a great time, but...

In the Basque Country at the moment visiting San Sebastian/Donostia. Making use of the local Basque government trains and it's been an excellent service. There's obviously a lot of money been spent to good effect. We've been based near Usurbil station with trains in each direction every 30...

Me too Binnersley, I took a 30 hour train from Munich to Thessalonika back in 1984.

On the 14th June I took the OBB RailJet service from Vienna to Budapest in the afternoon and then caught the overnight Sleeper from Budapest to Bucharest in Romania. Had a 2 berth sleeper in an Romanian sleeper car, (the wife and I think we're too old for couchettes anymore). The sleeper was...

As well as my rhodopi mountain adventure I took the day train from Bucharest to Sofia. 9 hours slowly trundling along through pretty boring scenery till you got to the Iskar Gorge. That was really impressive, towering cliffs on both sides and various hydroelectric installations on the river.

On holiday in Bulgaria's Rhodopi mountains and took the train from Velingrad to Avramovo, the highest station in the Balkans. Trundling up the inclines, tunnels and I think a couple of spirals. Great views of the forests and alpine meadows covered with wild flowers. All with the still snow...

Seven heading north on the M6 near Penrith this morning

Yes, out of Carnforth heading for Skipton on a Pacer! You needed to have your fingers in your ears

Ioved my trip on the Petite Train June. Open carriages and fantastic views. Sweltering at the bottom but definitely a bit nippy when we got to the top in the pyranese

Hay'sham sets my teeth on edge. Don't they know it's He'shum

Bay Horse, near Lancaster. Think the station was named after the next door pub, situated in countryside not really near any of the existing villages. Now anything within a mile has a Bay Horse address. No actual village just isolated farms and houses.