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Published: July 23, 2026 16:43

Spent a couple of days in the UK for our little YouTuber get-together and some cool trains! 🇬🇧🚆 And now that I apparently make bus videos too, I’ve decided to try RegioJet’s premium London–Prague service overnight bus. 18 hours in a solo panorama seat…

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Published: July 11, 2026 08:01

More nonsense. 3 days before departure, the train was moved 30 min later, instead of the nice booked Velaro, we’ve been "blessed" with a duck in possibly the worst-aligned seats imaginable. Such a shame. Spain has the most HSR track in Europe, yet it’s…

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Published: July 8, 2026 14:51

Spanish HSR might be the worst in the world 😅🇪🇸🚆 Avril is a horrible low-quality train, cheap nasty 2+2 seatsin first class 🤢, ride quality so rough there's now turbulence on trains😭 Infrastructure is broken, our train got cancelled in Ourense after a…

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Published: June 22, 2026 14:27

All aboard the retro sleeper to Bucharest! Yes that loco is really running with one window stitched together with some tape 🤣🇷🇴

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Published: June 21, 2026 15:06

🍽️ Romanian dining cars are so back! Even if the layout is still incredibly strange... 😅 IC 531 from Bucharest to Cluj and Arad is now meant to have one, and it's great to see proper restaurant cars returning to CFR's flagship trains. 🚆

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Published: June 17, 2026 20:15

Talgo time! Let’s just say I wasn’t exactly impressed… but worst of all, there’s no currywurst in the bistro 😱 🇩🇪

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Published: June 17, 2026 04:32

First KBH Hamburg train of the day: Talgo ❌ ⏩ Replaced by IC3 ✅ Second Talgo of the day: ❌Canceled outright. Luckily the morning ComfortJet I've booked is running! ✅ Off to Berlin on a complicated routing! (Spoiler, not taking the ComfortJet all the…

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Published: May 15, 2026 08:51

I’d stay away from them. No refund for a cancelled Hamburg train! They pretend the bus can keep the same schedule. It clearly can’t, and even the quickest FlixBus, with fewer stops, takes 30 minutes longer. Comparable transport conditions do exist on this…

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Published: May 11, 2026 07:10

Incredible display from SBB today The first class carriages have swapped position, so of course they have flipped the seat reservations too 🙄 Panorama reservations are now in the non-panorama car and vice versa! Oh, and we left Zürich 5 minutes late…

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Published: May 9, 2026 16:56

I’ve had enough of France and nonsense open-access operators that keep cancelling and ruining the trains I’ve booked with them. So now I’m off to a country with functional trains 🇨🇭😅

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Published: May 9, 2026 07:17

It’s long been rumoured that DSB and Vy were looking into running DSB’s new Talgos direct from Copenhagen to Oslo. However, using DB Talgos, with a restaurant car, twice daily and all the way from Berlin to Oslo, was definitely not on my bingo card 🇩🇪 🇩🇰…

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Published: May 9, 2026 06:49

Where European Sleeper is unable to deliver, Ouigo can pick up the slack. To ES’ credit, we arrived in Mons on time, so there was just enough time to connect onto this Ouigo to Paris. It will even arrive before the sleeper was scheduled to, and probably…

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Published: May 8, 2026 18:39

I don’t even know where to start with European Sleeper tonight 🫠 We left late, the carriage numbers messed up, so it took 30 minutes before I was in the correct carriage. 1 hour before departure I got an email saying the train won’t even go to Paris …

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Published: May 7, 2026 06:32

13 hours in first class on the new ComfortJet connection from Copenhagen to Prague. Let’s do this 👀🚆

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Published: May 6, 2026 15:50

I hope DSB installs whatever TTS/AI voice system ČD has on their ComfortJets on their Talgos too. It sounds so much better! No more “Cul-ding” 😅 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 4, 2026 13:16

Well, I won't be recommending GoVolta then. 2 days out, they cancelled the entire train, seemingly for their own operational convenience, and replaced it with a single bus. If I wanted to travel by bus to Hamburg, I would have booked FlixBus 🙄 Safe to…

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Published: May 4, 2026 09:23

Welcome onboard the first Snälltåget day train from Hamburg to Stockholm 🇩🇪🇸🇪 We’re an hour late, as German rail infrastructure seems determined to destroy every train launch in May. I’ve got one of the few solo seats for the 11.5-hour journey, plus a…

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Published: May 3, 2026 04:43

Good morning from Prague! Time for a joyride on the new ComfortJet service to Copenhagen 👀 Only heading as far as Hamburg today, but I’ll be back in a couple of days to ride the full route and really put it to the test, bringing you a detailed review of…

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Published: May 2, 2026 19:33

This was not where I expected to be tonight, but it’s definitely an upgrade over doing 10 hours in a seat for no reason, so I can’t complain too much 🤣 €50 for a last-minute booking in a shared 3-person “sleeper” - not bad. Hopefully it stays empty to…

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Published: May 2, 2026 18:04

Well everything has gone horribly wrong 😅 Went to Prešov to catch the new LEO Express Talgo on their overnight service to Prague! But today they have sent a FLIRT instead of the Talgo 😭 Needless to say, as I only came here to try the Talgo. I've now…

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Published: May 2, 2026 09:34

Off to Slovakia for real this time 🚄 A new Czech 'Thrashtron' pulls my EC to Žilina with a mixed rake of Slovak and Czech carriages 🇸🇰 🇨🇿

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Published: April 29, 2026 10:42

Do love when the office has a ever-changing view 🚂 🇨🇿

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Published: April 1, 2026 10:42

Looks like Talgo has won the tender to build new night trains for Stockholm–Luleå/Narvik Best of luck to Sweden 💀 The new DK + DE Talgos are working very reliably. KZ was so happy with their Talgos that they kicked them out and replaced the factory with…

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Published: March 30, 2026 07:59

So long Taiwan, it’s been a blast 🇹🇼 If not my favourite place in Asia, it’s definitely a strong contender. Now for a ride up the high speed line to Taipei before heading to the airport for my flight back to Europe Time to get back home and into editing…

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Published: March 29, 2026 07:44

Kaohsiung 🇹🇼 really said let’s run our brand new light rail straight through the old station. Which is now an open-air museum and one of the nicest places to just hang out in the city 😍🚋

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Published: March 28, 2026 11:40

Not many days left for these almost 50 year old American built E200 series locomotives Train 708 from Taitung to Kaohsiung / Xinzuoying is still a safe bet for now, but who knows when that too will quietly turn into a brand new Toshiba E500 👀

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Published: March 27, 2026 13:35

Have never seen this many bikes on a long-distance train before 😅🚲 Every possible space they could be stored in was full of them, must’ve been at least 30 on this EMU3000! Anyway, rough day on the Taiwan railway network, my Taipei–Taitung train went from…

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Published: March 15, 2026 11:23

Update Hamburg seemed too boring, so went to Taiwan instead 🇹🇼 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 14, 2026 07:23

Talgo to Hamburg looking a bit different this morning 😬 The Talgo carriages are still an operational disaster almost six months after entering service and after being delivered two years late 🙄 The power of hindsight, we probably could have had a stable…

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Published: March 1, 2026 17:51

5500+ km and 107 hours later, welcome to Lisbon 🇵🇹🚌 6 minutes ahead of schedule too! Not much else to say really, off to the hotel 💤 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: February 25, 2026 06:56

Good morning from Finnish Lapland 🇫🇮 at Santa Claus Village, the northernmost stop on the FlixBus European network 🚌 Over the next 100+ hours, I’ll be travelling exclusively with FlixBus all the way to Lisbon 🇵🇹 which is the longest journey you can book…