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
A Chip Shop in Poznan by Ben Aitken has been sitting on my bookshelf for probably more years than I care to think about it. It’s always my “I’ll read that one next” before I find myself picking up something else. Turns out that was fate staying my hand because when I realised my Eras… More Travel Library: A Chip Shop in Poznan by Ben Aitken
Keeping up the theme of the last few (and next few) weeks, this month’s chocolate contest is between Germany and Poland (yes, I’m renaming it for this month). Actually, I did really badly at buying chocolate while I was away. I mostly lived off Milka. The German Ritter for this post came from Lidl and… More Chocolate Contests: German vs Polish chocolate
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