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Tag: The Eras Train Tour (2024)

The Eras Train Tour on film | iamapolarbear.com

The Eras Train Tour on film

May 26, 2025

I’ve discovered that I’ve missed quite a few sets of film photos but I like them and I think they show a slightly different perspective on places and on travel, especially with the fact that you don’t get to find out whether they even worked until a good few weeks later. They’ll never replace the … More The Eras Train Tour on film

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Eras Train Tour: Monday in Warsaw | iamapolarbear.com

Eras Train Tour: Monday in Warsaw – the end of an Era(s)

October 7, 2024

And at last it’s going home day! The reality of this trip was almost as long as the blog posts about it – by the time I woke up in Warsaw on that last morning, to the first rain I’d seen since my first day in Berlin, it all felt so long ago I could … More Eras Train Tour: Monday in Warsaw – the end of an Era(s)

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Eras Train Tour: Sunday in Warsaw | iamapolarbear.com

Eras Train Tour: Sunday in Warsaw

October 3, 2024

It is now October and this journey started in July and I’m still writing about it! Twice a week blogs mean eleven-day trips take a while, I guess. But it’s my last full day! It’s the day after I finally went to the Eras tour and I started it late and lazy with a quest … More Eras Train Tour: Sunday in Warsaw

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Eras Train Tour: Saturday in Warsaw (and ERAS!) | iamapolarbear.com

Eras Train Tour: Saturday in Warsaw (and ERAS!)

September 23, 2024

By Saturday, after eight days on the go, I was kind of tired. My hotel was too hot, I’d glimpsed four cities over the last week and today I was finally going to see Taylor Swift, after possessing an Eras tour ticket for nearly thirteen months. I could have quite happily stayed home. But I … More Eras Train Tour: Saturday in Warsaw (and ERAS!)

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Eras Train Tour: Łódź to Warsaw | iamapolarbear.com

Eras Train Tour: Lodz to Warsaw

September 19, 2024

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

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Eras Train Tour: Wrocław to Łódź | iamapolarbear.com

Eras Train Tour: Wroclaw to Lodz

September 16, 2024

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

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Eras Train Tour: Wednesday in Wroclaw

September 12, 2024

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

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Eras Train Tour: Poznan to Wroclaw

September 9, 2024

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

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Eras Train Tour: Berlin to Poznan

September 5, 2024

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

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Eras Train Tour: Sunday in Berlin

September 2, 2024

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

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The first blog of the Denmark trip is up! It’s my birthday trip to @aireancientbathsdk which isn’t necessarily a great subject for a blog and Instagram because in the pursuit of serenity and relaxation (which it achieves!) you can’t take cameras in. And I made it to the end! A reel every day! Today’s features a weird otherworldly metro station and a very nice beach (this is where you come kayaking in Copenhagen!) and then a lovely flight home (with two episodes of Farscape). Last proper day in Denmark and I finally made it to Christiania which has got the odd vibe of being free and artsy (and yeah, a bit illegally leafy) but also like there are Rules. Then I detoured slowly through Copenhagen (got lost on the way to the metro) and finished up the day with an extended session at AIRE Ancient Baths, a spa with Latin names for all its pools hiding away in the raw brickwork of the old Carlsberg factory. Oh, I needed some time in hot water! Turns out I’ve been missing that all week! Who’d have thought a graveyard would be a nice place to spend some time on an intolerably hot day in Copenhagen? The Hans Christian Andersen Experience was perhaps not something I’ll rush back to but the National Museum is quite something. Three and a half years ago, I was sitting in a bar in Denmark with an Irishman, a Norwegian and three Icelandic lawyers while they gave us a potted history of the Vikings and the relationship between Iceland and Denmark that included the phrases “Viking is a verb, not a noun” and “Denmark is our colonist”. Chunks of that conversation made it into my second book, Lava Land (look out for it in the autumn!). Today I kayaked around Copenhagen with #GreenKayak collecting litter from the canals. Oh, that one’s getting a blog post! And then I walked around Copenhagen a bit in the afternoon and the evening and filmed very little of it. This is the reason I’m in Denmark this week - not out of a desire to see Copenhagen but a desire to see a 5cm layer of fossils, sticky clay and iridium, the geological evidence of an asteroid that hit Mexico 66m years ago and caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event. Today I went to Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens - and I went on two rollercoasters (and was only terrified of one). My main “home” on the internet is my blog, I Am A Polar Bear (link in bio) and I always say that I make the effort to keep up with Instagram partly to promote it and partly to get my face out there as a travel blogger - which I guess is one and the same thing. So why has it taken this long to occur to me that grid posts should match up with blog posts? So that’s what I’m doing from now on.

About Julie

I'm a blogger, adventurer, lover of hot water, amateur paddler and polar bear who wilts in hot weather. Time (by day, I'm a researcher) and funds keep me within Europe and I make regular trips up to the north, especially to Iceland. I like the occasional adventure across Europe by train and I'm starting to make use of my weekends for 48-hour adventures. This isn't my only creative outlet - I've written two travelogues (one on a winter adventure across the Arctic Circle and one on exploring volcanoes during a warm summer road trip around Iceland) plus a little book of Icelandic pools and I have a fourth book in progress right now.

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