Recent content by valedave

It has just been announced by SNCF Réseau that the line is undamaged and can reopen from Saturday 1 August.

Nice. We are coming from Thuringia, Germany via Paris, then Paris-Bayonne on the sleeper, over the border to Donostia and car from there. We are there for almost two weeks though so proper summer holiday. Back via Toulouse, also on the sleeper 1784661047 Leon is a good choice, as the Spanish...

Fellow eclipse chaser? :) After researching services in northern/north-central Spain we abandoned all plans due to lack of certainty on what services would be running and when, and just hired a car from San Sebastian (rather than Valladolid as I originally had hoped to do). Prices also didn't...

That‘s what I thought. I won‘t be at the station until past ticket office closing time, so thats out. I assume the boarding process will be like the Caledonian Sleeper, with the list and names being checked off. I have printed confirmation of bookings and ID so am hoping that will be enough...

Travelling on the Night Riviera tonight. I live abroad but have a UK-registered card. I bought the berth supplement with this card but left it at home. I know, I‘m an idiot. I‘m travelling on an Interrail pass, I have the card on Apple Pay. Will I still be able to collect the tickets at Paddington?

The secret way is to jump on the 12:25 ICE 315 from Brussels and change to the twice-daily direct Aachen-Berlin ICE with a comfortable 53-minute connection in Aachen. You can often get really decent prices on that service too. I can still get a ticket for tomorrow, for example, for €66.

Further to this: Mile End was an absolute nightmare after the festival – I didn't appreciate the sheer volume of people. I ran past loads of people to get to the tube station, by which time I had no other option than to get the Central line to Stratford. I ran from there through Westfield and...

Thanks for that information, that's a great help! I'm on the 23:07 so it is the last service of the night. I think I will play it safe and head back to St Pancras.

Hi all, I am visiting London tomorrow (Sunday 25th), travelling from Folkestone and back on HS1 with two Advance singles. I stupidly realised that, as the event I am going to is near Mile End, I should really have booked at least the return from Stratford Intl instead of London St...

I got caught up in this, although fortunately no way near the same extent as the people on the stranded train. What a nightmare! I arrived at Bruxelles Midi on Thursday to find my departure (1456) cancelled at the departure at 1256 running two hours late. Luckily I was early, so I asked about...

If I remember correctly Pepinster is a "wedge station" as the Germans say (not aware of the English term, if there is one), which makes connections very easy indeed. Not so great in the opposite direction (Spa-Aachen), with a 45-minute wait in Pepinster or Verviers.

There are ticket machines on most trams, usually towards the middle. There are also ticket machines at quite a lot of tram stops, so you'll be fine there. When I lived there the only card payment accepted was Geldkarte, a weird function on your bank card (EC-Karte/Girokarte) that you had to top...

Everyone has pretty much explained it, but for clarity: The change in timetable means that the Zugbindung – the obligation to travel on the booked long-distance trains (in your case the ICEs) – on your Sparpreis has been lifted, so you are now free to travel on any trains on that day between...

Have done this connection twice this year, on a Friday and Saturday so lots of passengers (both times arriving 12:05, departing 12:25). First time the Eurostar was late and we had to run for the (punctual) ICE, second time we were on time and the ICE was delayed into Brussels so we had to get a...

I never realised how good value the Interrail passes really are if you avoid mandatory reservations. For European residents travelling to the UK the cost is ridiculously low considering the flexibility. And now that they include the trip to/from the resident country border it genuinely is a...