Back in June 2021, a company in France called Midnight Trains launched its ‘Hotel on rails‘ project for luxury night train services worthy a hotel experience. Every Friday, Midnight Trains sends a newsletter with some sort of update on its project.
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Outside the EU, Europeans mostly travel to Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom
In the COVID-19 pandemic related travel restrictions stricken year 2021, residents of the European Union spent over four out of five of their trips inside their own country of residence. But when they left their motherland, where did they travel to? Eurostat figured it out.
Italy 2022
October 2022. As we wanted to test Trenitalia‘s Frecciarossa 1000 service from Paris to Milan, we planned a rail trip around it. From Antwerp to Paris with Thalys, the ‘Red Arrow’ to Milan and once in Italy continuing to Trieste and Bologna. The return trip took us to Basel in Switzerland to enjoy SBB‘s panoramic…
2022 Iceland Road Trip
Iceland in November and December? Really? I saw an Icelandair promotion on Instagram which I couldn’t resist. The catch? It had to be late November to the start of December 2022. But I could – easily – enthuse Oriol to come along for a road trip in the South and West of Iceland.
Europeans visit other European countries over 7 nights on average
In the COVID-19 pandemic stricken year of 2021, tourism trips made by residents of the European Union to another EU Member State had an average duration longer than one week – 7.9 nights – ranging from 4.3 nights for trips to Czechia and Luxembourg to 11.3 nights for trips to Romania.
ÖBB’s Nightjet to connect Berlin to Brussels from December 2023
Austria‘s national railway company ÖBB will connect Brussels in Belgium to Berlin in Germany from December 2023 with its Nightjet sleeper trains. Half December is Europe‘s railway universe’s New Year. Night trains advocate Back On Track Belgium is delighted with the news.
EUROCITY EC-52 | Milan to Basel (and to Frankfurt) via the Simplon Tunnel
October 2022. As we wanted to test Trenitalia‘s Frecciarossa 1000 service from Paris to Milan, we planned a rail trip around it. From Antwerp to Paris with Thalys, the ‘Red Arrow’ to Milan and once in Italy continuing to Trieste and Bologna. The return trip took us to Basel in Switzerland to enjoy SBB‘s panoramic…
Trains in Italy
October 2022. As we wanted to test Trenitalia‘s Frecciarossa 1000 service from Paris to Milan, we planned a rail trip around it. From Antwerp to Paris with Thalys, the ‘Red Arrow’ to Milan and once in Italy continuing to Trieste and Bologna. The return trip took us to Basel in Switzerland to enjoy SBB‘s panoramic…
EMILIA-ROMAGNA | Bologna & Modena 2022
October 2022. As we wanted to test Trenitalia‘s Frecciarossa 1000 service from Paris to Milan, we planned a rail trip around it. From Antwerp to Paris with Thalys, the ‘Red Arrow’ to Milan and once in Italy continuing to Trieste and Bologna. The return trip took us to Basel in Switzerland to enjoy SBB‘s panoramic…
Trenitalia / FS confirms interest in connecting Spain to Brussels, Amsterdam and Berlin
The Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS), perhaps better known under its brand name Trenitalia, confirms willing to extend its existing services to Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris and Berlin.
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