European Trips
Category: Trains
Scandinavia, 2010. Flying to Bergen, then trains to the Sognfjord. A series of ferries up to Balastrand & Sogndal, then to the Geirangerfjord, Ålesund and Molde. Ferry to Trondheim, then train into Sweden, via Ostersund to Stockholm.
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Corsica by Train
Continuing a series of blog posts written for the hikingcorte blog way back in 2010. This post describes my journey by train all the way to Corsica.
I set off for Corsica on the morning (early morning) of April 8th. I’d been a bit nervous about the UK rail strikes affecting the eurostar, but they’d been put on hold and now my only concern was the weather and my inevitable paranoia about losing my passport before I’d even set off.
Eurostar is brilliant.
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Hiking Corsica: Planning Travel
The first in a series of blog posts written for the hikingcorte blog way back in 2010. This post describes my process of planning the journey overland to Corsica. Note that much of the information on booking tickets is now very outdated, though Man in Seat 61 remains excellent.
After I’d booked what I could and prepared myself with fleecy clothes, a survival bad, 2 kg of chocolate and other incongruous stuff, the next stage was getting to Corsica.
Flying?
I’m not really a huge fan of flying. It doesn’t exactly bother me – I quite enjoy the takeoff and landing, as they’re the only really exciting bits – but it always feels like the least interesting way to travel. Even by coach, with all its amusing associated challenges (how long can I go without drinking/going to the toilet) gives you a proper sense of movement and the feeling you’re travelling through a landscape. I’ve taken to thinking of planes as really slow, dull teleporters: you get on, sit in a rather featureless tube for a few hours, then step off and bang!: you’re immediately in another country, with a different climate.