Where winding roads, rusty rails, iffy health and lean budget meet the calm
April 23, 2018
Our luck with the sun has expired. After a rainy and dull day in Durham, today wasn’t looking promising either. It was museum time! Continue reading “National Railway Museum, York”
April 20, 2018
After saying goodbye to our wonderful hosts in Keswick on a dry and promising morning, we hopped on a bus that took us through some lovely scenery and small villages and dropped us off in the centre of Carlisle. Continue reading “Settle – Carlisle line and Giggleswick”
April 2018
As mentioned in our Cumbria post, we enjoyed a trip on this minimum gauge (15”, 914mm) railway. Here’s some more information on this delightful railroad. Continue reading “The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway (La’al Ratty)”
The train to Bucharest was rather full. Families with kids and huge suitcases, families without kids and with huge suitcases, and younger people with duffel bags, were boarding the train. They were all vacationers, going to the Black Sea. Continue reading “Braşov to Bucharest”
Upon arrival at Sibiu and before venturing the city we bought tickets for our next leg to Braşov. We would try an international train this time. Continue reading “Sibiu to Braşov”
Getting off the train in Craiova I ventured to discover the toilets. Continue reading “Craiova to Sibiu”
While planning this trip from Canada it was somewhat difficult to find information on crossing the Bulgaria-Romania border at Vidin-Calafat. Continue reading “Trains we took through Romania”
And so, we made it all the way to Thurso, a lovely small town close to Dunnett Head, the most northerly point in Scotland. Continue reading “The Far North to Thurso and Back”
“ it does have a remarkable sense of connecting somewhere to nowhere through a lot of, er, nowhere.” (Benedict le Vay, Britain from the Rails)” Continue reading “The Iron Road from Skye”
Today (September 9, 2018) was to be one of the highlights of our Scottish adventure, and we weren’t disappointed. Continue reading “Fort William to Mallaig”
Diana & Alex:
“I am aware that many people nowadays regard the train as the second-best means of seeing a country. Continue reading “Glasgow to Fort William”
We came to Scotland, in part, we wanted to experience some of the most highly-rated railway journeys in the world. Continue reading “Trains we took in Scotland”
There are some 119 km of railroad between Vidin, Bulgaria and Craiova, Romania. Of this, it’s about 30 km from Vidin to Golenţi railway station near Calafat, on new tracks built across the New Europe Bridge (also know as Danube 2 bridge). The bridge was opened in 2013 and the first passenger train between Vidin and Golenţi ran in May 2014. Continue reading “Vidin to Craiova, the Romanian part”
Sometimes dreams from the past do not survive the reality check of the present. With age marching fast, some dreams are better left unrealized. Continue reading “Crossing the Danube over the New Europe Bridge”
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