In the summer of 2022 I crossed all of the internal borders of the European Union (and Switzerland, Norway and Liechtenstein) you can cross by train. That ended up with 95 borders crossed (you can find all the routes I took here). But that is long way away from crossing […]
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Guest on #RailNatter with Gareth Dennis – 4 Jan 2023 Han har krydset alle EU’s grænser i tog i 2022. Nu er han mest af alt bare sur Information – 3 Jan 2023 – Mathias Sonne Aktivisten Jon Worth har i 2022 kørt Europa tyndt og krydset alle europæiske […]
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It was one of the most surreal experiences of the #CrossBorderRail project: to be the only passenger on an international train for its entire trip. It even made it into my summary video. It happened on Day 1, at the Belgium-France border, between Mons and Aulnoye-Aymeries – and you can […]
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Member of the European Parliament for the Swedish Greens Jakop Dalunde has long been one of the very best EU politicians about railway policy, and I even met him for a short chat about my #CrossBorderRail project right back on Day 1 in June. The picture here is of us […]
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(English version below – details of the Top20 projects here) Im Sommer 2022 überquerte Jon Worth im Rahmen des Projekts #CrossBorderRail jede Binnengrenze der EU, die man mit dem Zug überqueren kann. 95 Grenzen, mehr als 30000 Zugkilometer, und wo keine Züge mehr fahren, nahm er ein Klapprad, um von […]
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Now the travel for the project is complete I have now published the first video summarising what I have learned. It is also available on: Twitter Facebook Instagram LinkedIn
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The final day trip of the #CrossBorderRail project – CD-CZ-PL as explained here – was completed on 18 August. And I have no more days left on my Interrail pass. So that means that all the travel for the project for the summer of 2022 is now done. Everything has […]
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With just one more day to go before I finally stop travelling to the internal borders of the European Union by train, I am pleased to be able to announce the first event where I will present the preliminary conclusions of the project so far. This event will happen on […]
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It was a nice idea. Get myself out of the digital-only communication means on my blog and on Twitter, and go back to old and friendly forms of travel writing – postcards! But not any old postcards… Self-printed postcards, 2 for each day of the #CrossBorderRail project, home made and […]
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(Not all of these stories necessarily concern the South East loop of the project in particular – but they were published during the time I was on the rails for that loop!) Journalist Jon Worth gaat uitdaging aan: in 40 dagen alle Europese grenzen passeren met de trein OVPro […]
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