159
#CrossBorderRail lines
visited and investigated*
69849km
on 463
trains
1863km
by bike, across
69 bike legs
2885km
by bus, ferry
and car
33
more borders to visit
Sept-Oct 2023
20283km
more by train planned,
105 trains
565km
more by bike planned,
26 bike legs
1088km
more by bus, ferry,
tram planned
News
Should I even be attempting this journey?
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 […]
Read MoreOpen source mapping tools
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 […]
Read MoreThe Kaunas-Suwałki headache
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 […]
Read MoreA previous trip to Gorizia – Nova Gorica
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 […]
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