A journey to Reims
The characters in Rossini’s opera Il viaggio a Reims never do get to Reims, and for a few minutes I thought I wasn’t going to get there either, because my Read More …
Tag: Train travel
TGV to Strasbourg
They had a brass band on platform 4 of the Gare de l’Est (East Station) in Paris on the morning of June 10, 2007, to give us all a big Read More …
By train to Lille
My plan was that I would take a German InterCityExpress train (ICE) from Frankfurt by way of Cologne to Brussels, change at Brussels North Station for Kortrijk and then change Read More …
Eleven times as marvelous?
Germany’s largest opera house was built in the 1990s on the site of an old railway station, incorporating the station’s elaborate entrance hall and front façade. The station itself had Read More …
Transportation to and within Braunschweig
Since April 1977, steam locomotive 01 1063 has been on display in front of the main railroad station in Braunschweig. This locomotive was in active use on the German railways Read More …
By bicycle or train to Friedrichsdorf
There are signposted bicycle routes leading to Friedrichsdorf from all directions, though when I went through Bad Homburg I had some trouble finding my way because either one sign was Read More …
By train to Toulon
Unlike Victor Hugo, who traveled from Marseille to Toulon by stagecoach in 1839, I came by train. His excuse was that the railroad didn’t even reach Toulon until twenty years Read More …
By train to Avignon
The train station Gare Avignon TGV was opened in 2001 on the outskirts of Avignon as part of the new LGV Méditerranée, the high-speed railway line from Lyon to Marseille. Read More …
Trains and bicycles in Osnabrück
Osnabrück Central Station (in German: Osnabrück Hauptbahnhof) is unusual in that two major railroad lines cross here at right angles, on two different levels. On the upper level, with tracks Read More …
The Bielefeld Conspiracy
Anyone who used to click around a bit on German-language websites in the early years of the 21st century has probably come across a phenomenon known as The Bielefeld Conspiracy. Read More …