#CrossBorderRail so far
197
#CrossBorderRail lines
visited and investigated
90467km
on 577
trains
2453km
by bike, across
97 bike legs
4183km
by bus, ferry
and car
News
Days 13 and 14 replanned to enter Switzerland at Delle
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 […]
Read MoreFirst funding goal reached: #CrossBorderRail is ON
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 […]
Read MoreShould 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 […]
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