Jon, Author at #CrossBorderRail

Author: Jon

Planning nightmares in Sweden and Spain

by Jon on 06.05.2022 0 comments

My #CrossBorderRail trip is due to start just over 5 weeks from now. But two parts of the trip – in Sweden on 18-19 June, and Spain on 3 July – are giving me no end of problems. At the time of writing I do not know if two trains […]

•European Union

So what are those “rail postcards” you mention? And who’s going to get them?

by Jon on 20.04.2022 0 comments

In years past I used to have a series on my blog called “Rail Postcards“. When one of my rail trips went wrong I would take a picture of the town where I was, mock up a kind of postcard, and then write a blog post as if it were […]

Days 13 and 14 replanned to enter Switzerland at Delle

by Jon on 15.04.2022 0 comments

I’ve made a small change to the route on Days 13 and 14. Instead of taking the train from Lyon to Genève in Switzerland on Day 13, I will instead stay in France – in Lons-le-Saunier. Then on Day 14 I will take regional trains via Besançon-Viotte and Belfort and […]

•Reflections

First funding goal reached: #CrossBorderRail is ON

by Jon on 12.04.2022 3 comments

The tremendous news: the crowdfunding of #CrossBorderRail has already been successful enough, just 24 hours after starting the project, to cover the costs of 40 days of the trip (€4096 is necessary to finance the project). That means I know that – barring something unexpected – I am going to be […]

•Reflections

Should I even be attempting this journey?

by Jon on 06.04.2022 0 comments

To be honest, I have wondered. Should I be attempting a 40-day, 28 country trip while the COVID pandemic is not done, and with a war in Ukraine raging on the border of the European Union? But for now, I think the answer is yes, I should go ahead. I […]

•Routes

Open source mapping tools

by Jon on 05.04.2022 1 comment

One of the headaches when planning the #CrossBorderRail trip was to be able to map railway routes adequately accurately. The number of railway routing tools available in public is considerably fewer than for road transport! But on this – as on so many other railway topics – it was a […]

The Kaunas-Suwałki headache

by Jon on 05.04.2022 0 comments

Kaunas – the second city of Lithuania – is European Capital of Culture in 2022. But trying to get from Lithuania to either Latvia or Poland is – at the time of writing – impossible by train. And that despite the future Rail Baltica route connecting Poland with the Baltics […]

A previous trip to Gorizia – Nova Gorica

by Jon on 04.04.2022 0 comments

One of the joys of preparing the website for this project has been to look back over the pictures taken at previous trips to some of these borders within the EU. Gorizia (IT) – Nova Gorica (SI) is one of the most fascinating, not least because the border between the […]

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Author: Jon

Planning nightmares in Sweden and Spain

So what are those “rail postcards” you mention? And who’s going to get them?

Days 13 and 14 replanned to enter Switzerland at Delle

First funding goal reached: #CrossBorderRail is ON

Should I even be attempting this journey?

Open source mapping tools

The Kaunas-Suwałki headache

A previous trip to Gorizia – Nova Gorica

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