Tag: train
-
Argh! Reservations.
It didn’t feel like good luck, when the alarm went off at 4am. We stayed last night in a hotel across the street from the station in Kolding, only because it’s the nearest place to Legoland in Billund with a station. An early night for all (7:30-8pm boys, 9pm for us) with a reasonably sensible…
-
Świnoujście
We’re getting towards the end of our holiday, and that means we’re chilling out a bit. Świnoujście is on the Polish Baltic coast, in the North West. Getting there was entertaining… we travelled on the bargain 9-Euro-ticket, which had also covered our public transport in Berlin, and we could use for a whole month. It’s…
-
Travel night: Vienna to Berlin
The sleeper edition! We had a good full day today, with the boys and Jennie having an epic trip to the Natural History Museum, while I went off to the Museum of Austrian History, which was fascinating, but would have been a nightmare with the kids! What’s engaging for me, isn’t necessarily for them… In…
-
Travel day: Lake Bled to Vienna
We had a really friendly taxi driver taking us to Lesce-Bled station (I was overruled on making the boys walk 7km with their bags at the start of the day!) She is a scuba diver too, and was telling us about the problems with invasive species from peoples brought-in boats, which are now banned from…
-
Travel day: Venezia to Lake Bled
We decided to take the first of the two trains we could use out of Venice, because we’d had such a good evening last night. We still had time for a little wander, breakfast, and drawing before we took the train, and Gideon started to warm to the place a little more with that. This…
-
Travel day: Roma – Venezia
Getting to Slovenia in a day would have been a mission, so we planned for a break in our journey, in Venice. What a hardship! That meant an hour or so in the pool yesterday morning, before we took the Metro to Termini, with enough time to browse and play in the Lego shop at…
-
Travel day: Lunch in Pisa
We took yesterday really easy: swimming in a local spot that we’d not found before, reading and terrace time, a good lie in. That set us up well for a long travel day today. Rome’s pretty easy to get to, there’s a main high speed line from Genoa to Rome, going through La Spezia just…
-
Travel day: the Bernina Express and Cinque Terre
Four hours of breathtaking Alpine train travel. And then onwards to the Cinque Terre!
-
And We’re Off!
A 4am alarm isn’t particularly early for us. I’d be lying if I said we’d never found satisfaction in being the ones to wake the boys up, for a change, but they’re pretty used to it by now, and in the summer it’s full daylight anyway. Our unneccesarily-early taxi got us to Waverley with plenty…