There isnt a late one on Saturdays, but the Sunday one is an extra half an hour later at 19:40 rather than 19:05 mon-fri. I think based on a sunday blast off this wil be a Tuesday.
It looks like it's going to be £43. the starboard windows will be fought over, assuming it flies along the coast.
http://www.wideroe.no/?language=en
I spoke to Ffestiniog' befoe Easter, she said they can do flight booking too. I mailed them the gen too but no-one responded. I'll press them for a quote in September and see if they can sort out the Berlin and Ljubljana hostel too, and perhaps a dorm crash zone in Istanbul.
I've got some work to do on some of these picnic runs. The main ones are Brussels/Copenhagen, where I think we need to ensure good stocks for the next 4 days, and Milan, which is an early-ish (7:30-8:00) window to receive a vital supply drop for the open top carriage over the alps.
Brussels:
Need picnic for train to Amsterdam and then the night train to Copenhagen
Havent a clue how/where to do this in Brussels, but we wont have time in Amsterdam for more than a splash and dash. I think everyone needs to leave Brussels with at least 2 bottles of spirits on them and some wine for the 4 days in Scandinavia.
Copenhagen:
I am hoping Tivoli will have enough options for folks to stock up. There will be some kind of restaurant car on the Trondheim Bodo train I think, but Norwegian train food it's certain to be both bland and expensive.
Trondheim:
07:00-07:40, hopefully there's a mini market and a sandwich bar open. We need to have that worked out though so we know how much to get in Copenhagen.
Narvik
We can now shop in Bodo instead of Narvik, though we can do a quick shop thee too before the train. There is sod all at Boden, on the Swedish side, and then a night train. We still need "typical Lapland picnic" suggestions.
Stockholm
I have a candidate deli, these savory gateaux things are a must.
Berlin-Dresden-Pargue: We can leave off the organised picnics probably for this section as we have enough time in all to actually hang out in restaurants. We still need to work out what we are going to do for each of those, we have a plan for Prague of course.
Budapest: Vital, but Don and Scooter have us covered.
Istanbul: No idea, it's only the night though and you've got all day to pig out on kebabs, we will be getting stocked in Sofia
Sofia: we have people on the ground and one certainty, plus a possible other 2, on the train.
Ljubljana-Trieste-Venice-Rome-Milan: should be able to graze on stuff though the day.
Milan: I still haven't made any progress on a Milanese deli that are prepared to deliver to Milan Station between 7:30 and 8:00 sharp. I'll go kick some of these armani clad mates of mine to see if we can get a bit further on this, This is critical, we have enough tome for a coffee in St Moritz and the rest is all on precision timed Swiss trains with no buffet.
Geneva:We think the supermarket under the station will be open, there will be fast food options, there must be a crepe stand somewhere.
Barcelona-Madrid: enough time to feed at both (we prob have to ditch this trip to the roller coaster though, need to re-look at all that).
Lisbon:We've got a 20 hour ride to Paris to come. There's a fancy supermarket near the station that does meals to go and all kind of alcoholic beverages.
Paris:I want to pop into an offie, prob Nicolas, and get one of their Dunedin label independent bottled whiskeys for the tunnel (to share of course).
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4 hours in a non capital city?
Changing the subject to Norway. I know the plan as it stands takes a flight up to Narvik but if that turns out to be full/cancelled/hideously expensive there is some stuff about the alternative coach trip here.
http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=60650
It doesn't sound too desparate.
sorry, missed that, I'm not getting mail pings. I'll unsubscribe and subscribe again to see if that fixed it.
yes, 4 hours may be too much, so we can either take a later train out of Berlin or/and arrive in Prague with enough time to really hammer the Velk'. I'll go look at bahn.de for the options.
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yes, 4 hours may be too much, so we can either take a later train out of Berlin or/and arrive in Prague with enough time to really hammer the Velk'. I'll go look at bahn.de for the options.
it's of course a direct non-stop train taking 4:40 hours
so we could just ditch Dresden and leave at 10:45 and be in Prague for half past 3. Leaving 8 1/2 hours in Prague after spending 11 hours (most of it asleep) in Berlin, which just seems a bit too jolly. But it means those of us who feel up to a 2:30 in the morning session in Berlin (we don't get in till 11:10 pm of course) can do that and still have a chance of making both breakfast and the train the following day, and we can do a decent bit of tramming in Prague, and do the pub and the clock etc without having to be on the ball the whole time.
Anyone who ends up overdoing Berlin could just get a later train to Prague.
I've tried working out a way via poland but it just works out as futile as trying to do the steam train at Dresden.
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that berlin prague train isnt non stop, it halts at dresden, bad schandau, then several stops in czech. it also runs along the elbe which I hadnt realised, so it goes though, or at least close to, saxon-swtzerland.
our german rep agrees that ditching Dresden when you've got Berlin and Prague at either end is a no brainer. we will prob be a bit knackered anyway after the run back down from narvik. 5 trains in 36 hours with just a few hours off at stockholm.
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Re: Milan.
I finally got a response from the Armani Army. We might even be looking at a Michelin star picnic!, but we'll certainly have nosh worthy of this culinary giant of a country.
. Anyway, when they are good they are very good, and this guy has somewhere walkable. i looked it up and it's about 300m from the exit of the station.