The day will start with a meeting with activists, and then a quick hop on the bike across the Danube and into Austria to Wolfsthal (AT) – from here to Bratislava Petržalka is a missing link between Wien and Bratislava. It is one that Cramer investigated, but one with little prospect of improvement soon – as two other lines between the Austrian and Slovakian capitals have been attracting the investment.
It’s then back to Bratislava main station, and onto the EuroCity train to Kolín (CZ), entering Czechia at Breclav, a border with good long distance and poor local services from Slovakia.
I will then take regional trains via Stara Paka (CZ), Liberec (CZ), Zittau (DE) and Cottbus (DE) – and the route takes me CZ-PL (once), PL-DE (3 times) and DE-PL (twice) – so that’s 7 border crossings in 1 day! All of these later border crossings have good local train connections, but no long distance traffic.
And then if I manage all of that I will be home in Berlin!
| Day / Date | Monday 1 August |
| Departure | Bratislava |
| End | Berlin |
| Trains | 6 |
| Rail km | 767.8 – help me crowd fund kilometres of my route! |
| Bike legs | 1 |
| Bike km | 26.5 |
| Borders crossed | SK-AT – Wolfsthal AT-SK – Petrzalka SK-CZ Breclav CZ-PL – Luptin PL-DE – Zittau DE-PL – Hirschfelde PL-DE – Rosenthal DE-PL – Rosenthal PL-DE – Hagenwerder |
| Events | Bratislava – more about events en route here |
Data here is indicative. The Google Sheet for the trip is the always-updated definitive version.
On the day itself, live updates will be posted here.
The map below is an image of the route for this day. You can alternatively see access whole route with more controls on umap here.
Images used in this post
Albert Koch
S-Bahn to Vienna waiting for departure
July 28, 2018
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