On sunny October 2022 Tuesday, Jeroen and I visited Bokrijk, an open-air folk heritage museum near Genk in the province of Limburg. The Netherlands have the Nederlands Openluchtmuseum in Arnhem, Sweden has Skansen in Stockholm and Belgium has Bokrijk.
Tag: Stockholm
European Commission supports 10 pilot projects for cross-border train travel, but Back On Track Belgium calls out key weakness
The European Commission will support ten pilot project for new cross-border services and the improvement of existing ones, it announced recently. But that support is not financial. Back On Track Belgium says the initiative is weak.
EuroPride 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal
Lisbon in Portugal has been chosen as the host city of EuroPride in 2025.
Trans Europ Express 2.0 advocates a renewed extensive European train network
Besides the renewed interest in night trains in Europe, besides an increase in awareness something must be done to make cross-boarder train travel in the European Union much easier, there’s also this Trans Europ Express 2.0. A revival of the old TEE network.
SJ EuroNight announces 2022 night train service from Stockholm to Hamburg, no Malmö – Brussels for now
Swedish rail operator SJ AB has announced a night train service from Sweden‘s capital Stockholm to Hansestadt Hamburg in Germany from 2022. At least for now there will not be a nigh train service from Malmö to Brussels.
2021, European Year of Rail
The European Commission has declared 2021 European Year of Rail.
ÖBB Nightjet to Brussels to ride three times a week, Innsbruck route scrapped
ÖBB, the Federal Railways of Austria, is scrapping its Innsbruck route. That is the reason why we booked a voyage on it a few weeks ago. The Vienna – Brussels – Vienna service will run three times a week as of December 2020.
My first railtrip part 4: North Sweden
Back in a pre-corona 2012 I got inspired by my friend Erik to make an epic rail trip through a part of Europe. I persuaded my best friend to tag along and together we decided to head north, to Scandinavia, to a part of Europe we both hadn’t visited yet and where fascinated about.
REVIEW | SAS Go from Stockholm Arlanda to Brussels
In the month of April I made a week-long trip with Michel, discovering German aviation history in Friedrichshafen, Danish railways History in Odense and navigating the sea to discover some Estonian history in Tallinn.
REVIEW | Navigating the Baltic Sea on the Tallink Ferry from Stockholm to Tallinn
In the month of April I made a week-long trip with Michel, discovering German aviation history in Friedrichshafen, Danish railway history in Odense and navigating the sea to discover some Estonian history in Tallinn.