🧵 Slow-travel thread: Gorey to Vienna, April 2024
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Wexford Bus transports us to Gorey and our daughter is waiting to take us the last few miles.
Nearly everything went to plan and there were no serious hiccups thankfully.
The Interrail app supplies some nice statistics. Unfortunately, it doesn’t cover the ferry.
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Closer to home now. Another smooth overnight sailing from Cherbourg to Dublin.
Sunny departure and arrival into typical Dublin grey.
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The works seem to be for a new rail freight terminal. As far as I can tell, the old pedestrian shortcut is gone for good. Hopefully, a new pedestrian route is part of the redevelopment plans.
The sign about the works says they will be complete by the end of June 2024. I don’t think they will make that deadline.
https://portsdenormandie.fr/fr/projets/cherbourg/terminal-de-ferroutage
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On a Sunday, a taxi is the only reasonable option as the bus only runs Monday to Saturday.
Earlier in this thread, I remarked that the Irish Ferries SailRail page had good information. Unfortunately, it’s now a bit out-of-date. The walk to bus isn’t wheeled luggage friendly and it’s a 10 mins walk with no luggage
https://www.irishferries.com/ie-en/Travel-to-France-Specials/Ireland-France-SailRail/
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After a lovely morning in Cherbourg where a nerd like me decides to walk to the ferry terminal to see how feasible it would be with luggage.
Bad news - don’t attempt to walk from Cherbourg Ferry Terminal to Cherbourg Gare SNCF with wheeled luggage. If you’re fit and have a backpack allow at least 45mins. It took me 35mins with no luggage.
The main problem is the pedestrian short-cut is closed due to redevelopment works.
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Minute perfect on-time arrival into Cherbourg.
3,194km of train travel in France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland (and Liechtenstein) come to an end 🥲
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The German announcements are sounding positively mellifluous in comparison.
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I wonder do train companies test their recorded announcements on customers?
I’m finding the announcements in American grating. YMMV.
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8mins late into Gare De Lyon.
Metro line 14 direct to Gare St Lazare.
20mins from one main line concourse to the other. Plenty of time to shop for food for the foodless train to Cherbourg. Loaded Navigo cards are essential!
Platform gates were a problem - picked up Apple Pay instead of scanning QR code (hopefully Apple will introduce a setting to disable NFC soon!). Station staff on-hand to scan manually though so all good.
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Let’s frame this positively:
A seat reservation option for people who pull the window blind down on a train so that they can watch a movie without glare on their large screened device.
It could be a “cine-seat” in a dark gloomy carriage - no need for windows.
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Interrail travel day 4/4
Zürich HB to Cherbourg via Paris (1h21m to connect from Gare De Lyon to Gare St Lazare)
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Breakfast time Zürichsee
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Does it count if you only transit through a country?
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When an 8 hour journey is too short - only 1h40 left until we reach Zurich and that’s too soon.
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Nice hotel room view of Vienna Hbf
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Tarvisio Boscoverde - last station in Italy.
Scheduled 8 min stop. Lots of police and army personnel at this internal Schengen border
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Taking the day train works out cheaper and more flexible.
Each interrail travel day is costing €71.20 when the interrail discount on Irish Ferries is taken out (€41.20 ~30% of base foot passenger fare)
A seat reservation on this train was €3 but there was a gotcha of €15 Tarviso supplement to also be paid. So that’s a total of €89.20.
Without the pass, the day I made the seat reservation an equivalent semi-flex ticket was coming up as €165.
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This is travel day 2 of our 4-day interrail pass and we’re only taking one train, albeit almost 8 hours long.
Originally I had booked the NightJet between Venice and Vienna but about 16 days ago I cancelled that with a 100% refund. This was only possible up to 15 days in advance. Then it drops to 50% up to 1 day in advance. The NightJet is expensive and inflexible when it comes close to the departure date.
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Bacaro Al Raveno - Bacaro’s are small Venetian bars selling drinks and cicchetti (small snacks). This was one that we stumbled upon near the Rialto bridge. Very nice relaxed lunchtime vibe - Apéro Spritz €5, cicchetti €2 and €3 each.
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2) Peggy Guggenheim Collection - the entrance fee of €16 is worth it just to see the villa in its waterside location on the Grand Canal. Soak in the art, atmosphere and prolong your visit with a coffee in the garden.
3) Al Vecio Marangon - a very small traditional Italian restaurant hidden away in backstreets near the Accademia. Mid-range prices but fair for the quality of food and service. Try the Lasagne dello Chef but don’t expect any meat.
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Arrivederci Venezia!
Two and a half wonderful days in a city people either love or loathe. We were lucky to have great weather, accommodation, food, drink and experiences.
Now settling in for almost 8 hours on the ÖBB Railjet 130 direct from Venice to Vienna.
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On time arrival into Venice (08:34) to be greeted with checks for the new Venice pass.
We’re staying here two nights so we were able to download exemption passes.
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Breakfast on the NightJet.
Very welcome after a night of rocking and rolling across southern Germany and alpine Austria.
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And we’re away on the NightJet to Venice.
No we didn’t confuse Venice and Vienna - we’re just taking a bit of a detour.
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CW: Alcohol
Train travel has its perks! Speisen und getränken
Sunny biergarten right beside Stuttgart HBF.
Luckily we had planned for a long connection here.
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Smooth connection at Karlsruhe. ICE 1069 is nice and quiet. Onwards to Stuttgart!
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Bonjour Strasbourg and au revoir to our lovely Strasbourg passengers and hello to their lovely first class seats!
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So we have to change in Karlsuhe to ICE 1069. Even my wife, who has good hearing, couldn’t make out the announcements in any of the three languages in which they were made. The train manager was very helpful when I went to ask him in person.