By and large, I’m a solo traveller and I think it’s time I started emphasising that a bit more.
Back in the days when I could solo travel, I gravitated towards Iceland, Scandinavia and the Arctic, with occasional visits to places like the Baltic states and eastern Europe but you’ll find plenty of Paris and Switzerland and western Europe here too. Actually, my non-Wessex UK travels are here as well, so come with me to Scotland, London and a few other places around my own country.
I woke up on my last morning of train travel across Poland with a sort of sense of regret – not that I regretted finally reaching Warsaw on my eighth day of this adventure, but that I didn’t have longer in the really nice hotel room in Łódź! After the tiny apartment with unreliable water… More Eras Train Tour: Lodz to Warsaw
It’s now Thursday and I’m about to move on to my penultimate city! I woke up in Wrocław to find the water was off in my apartment. I had a day and a half of plates and glasses to wash, which is no problem – ten minutes in the sink, except there’s no water! That’s… More Eras Train Tour: Wroclaw to Lodz
Wednesday was another day of staying put after two days on the move in a row – Berlin to Poznań on Monday and Poznań to Wrocław on Tuesday. It was also my birthday, which was the main reason for it – I didn’t fancy hauling my luggage around a city, onto a train and then… More Eras Train Tour: Wednesday in Wroclaw
I didn’t at all want to leave my nice light cool apartment with the incredible view but I’d only allocated one night in Poznań. On the other hand, my train to Wrocław, my next destination, was at 15:44 so I’d actually get a little over 24 hours in Poznań. Did I want to spend the… More Eras Train Tour: Poznan to Wroclaw
On Monday, I went to Poland. This was a slightly harder journey than the one I’d originally planned and took four trains instead of one. I started planning this journey in about March, choosing my cities, calculating how many nights to spend in each so that I could get from London on one Friday to… More Eras Train Tour: Berlin to Poznan
Sunday dawned sunny with a hint of a cool breeze, just a pleasant hot summer day rather than the oppressive pre-storm heat of Saturday. I’d “done” the important expected sights; I could just go off into Berlin and please myself. Breakfast would be a good start. Being Sunday, all the little supermarkets were closed except… More Eras Train Tour: Sunday in Berlin
If you’ve been following the tale of my Eras Train Tour – London to Warsaw by train – you’ll know by now that I’m in Berlin. I was going to do a post per day following my eleven-day journey but a couple of things in Berlin demanded their own post so this is a roundup… More Eras Train Tour: Saturday in Berlin
By Sunday evening, I was supposed to be packing up to move to Poland after a quick weekend in Berlin. But I felt kind of unsatisfied, like I was missing something in Berlin. Well, I was – I would have liked to see Brandenburg Gate without all the fences and portacabins blocking my view. I… More Eras Train Tour: Liquidrom, Berlin’s spa that thinks it’s a techno club
My parents love Berlin but it’s never appealed. That’s more a lack of a positive feeling than the presence of a negative one. I knew I’d get there one day but it wasn’t sitting there glowing, going “gotta see me, come see me” like some places do. But when I planned my train trip from… More Eras Train Tour: Badeschiff, Berlin’s floating pool
This is the first part of a series that’s going to go on for quite a bit – I’m just back from what I’m calling the Eras Train Tour and I have so much to write about! In short, I went to see Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in Warsaw and decided to go by train… More Eras Train Tour: London to Berlin by train in one day