The Ho Chi Minh Express
Officially this train was called the S4, but everybody referred to it as the Ho Chi Minh Express or the Reunification Express. This is one of several trains that run Read More …
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Rostock twenty years later
My first visit to Rostock was just five days after the opening of the Berlin Wall, as I have described in my post Rostock 1989. My second visit was a Read More …
Rostock 1989
It wasn’t planned that way, but my first visit to Rostock came at a major turning point in recent German history. I arrived there on 14 November 1989, just five Read More …
By train to Marseille
This is the main railway station for Marseille, Gare Saint Charles. In a typical hour, trains arrive from Avignon, Brussels, Le Havre, Paris, Toulon, Bordeaux, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence and Hyeres. And Read More …
By train to Amsterdam
When a German consortium stated building InterCityExpress (ICE) trains in the early 1990s, they thought they could market them worldwide and make a big hit on the export market. Up Read More …
To and from Maintenon by train
Trains to Maintenon leave the station Paris-Montparnasse about once an hour, but not always on the same minute. The journey takes between 50 and 55 minutes, with stops in Versailles-Chantiers, Read More …
By train and ferry to Denmark
Forty-one times a day these Scandlines ferries make the crossing from Puttgarden, on the island of Fehmarn in northern Germany, to Rødbyhavn on the Danish island of Lolland. I made Read More …