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#Braidspoor finale : after a well coordinated :schienenersatz_db: togbus ride, I caught my last train for a while. A grimy but at least punctual :dsb: IR MG will drop me in 🇩🇰 #Gelsted for #BornHack in a couple of minutes minutes.

This #Braidspoor trip was :

- 7 countries : 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇭🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇸🇪 🇩🇰
- 4 night trains ( :kb_en: #KálmánImre, :kb_kurswagen: #Hortobágy, :uz: Ш #Chronomorets, :uz: Ш 036 Одеса - Przemyśl)
- 1 night ferry
- 2 seas ( the Black Sea & the Baltic Sea )
- lots of joy & tasty food

Thanks a lot for reading my report !

💙💛 Stand with Ukraine 💙💛 !

Day 2 : leaving the :kb_en: #KálmánImre behind, an :oebb: :railjet: brought us back to the direction of 🇦🇹 Vienna. Sadly there are no showers in the central station meaning we'll have to wait until 🇺🇦 Київ tomorrow. Now a couple of hours to be spent in Austria ; enough time to say hi to friends and visit the local hack space @metalab ! #Braidspoor

All settled for my next #Braidspoor #CrossBorderRail trip : by waiting for 12 a.m. last night, I could catch two of the rare :kb_ec: 149 #Hortobagy :kb_kurswagen: through carriage reservations from 🇦🇹 Wien Hbf to 🇺🇦 Київ Рас.

Since the :oebb: were delayed in their booking system, I had to make use of the :mav_symbol: MÁV online system constraining international ticket purchases to stations from/to Hungary so in fact the ticket is only from Hegyshalom rather than Wien Hbf. Along with InterRail this shouldn't make a difference anyway, especially considering how we will first visit the dining car of the #SleeperAndEater anyway.

I'm very excited : I've already been in pretty any kind of :uz: Ukrainian sleeper carriages but the western-style RIC carriages of Ukrainian origin are something new to me anyway.

Our trip will be a long one : we will start in 🇫🇷 Alsace by regional train across the border to 🇩🇪 Germany and from 🇩🇪 Stuttgart on, the :kb_en: #KalmanImre will be taking us eastbound during night one. The first day will be a relaxed day in 🇦🇹 Wien (happy to meet fellow railway enthusiasts there, just poke me !), night two will bring us via 🇭🇺 Budapest and 🇺🇦 Львів to 🇺🇦 Київ where we planned delicious vegan dinner and sight seeing for my daughter who never went there before. Night three will bring us with the modern and comfortable :uz: 105К flagship to 🇺🇦 Одеса where we plan a relaxed day swimming in the Black Sea at the beaches of south of the town.

Because our destination sadly isn't Ukraine itself but 🇩🇰 Odense, night four will bring us north-westbound to 🇵🇱 Przemyśl in the :kb_kurswagen: through carriages of the 36Ш mainline. Day four will be a daytime travel day getting us to 🇵🇱 Gdynia at the Baltic Sea ports where night five will sail us by :stenaline: Stenaline over the sea to 🇸🇪 Karlskrona with the final part on day six via 🇩🇰 København to #BornHack on 🇩🇰 Funen island 🎉.

Stay tuned for railway travel reports !

Checking some #AzadiRail stats :

- 8375 km by train
- 9 countries :
- 🇫🇷 France
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- 🇦🇹 Austria
- 🇭🇺 Hungary
- 🇷🇴 Romania
- 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
- 🇹🇷 Turkey
- :flag_krd: #Kurdistan
- 🇹🇷 Turkish Kurdistan
- 🇮🇶 Iraqi Kurdistan
- 🇸🇾 #Rojava
- 6 night trains
- :trans_mav: :hu_en: #KalmanImre
- :cfr: IRN #Muntenia
- :tcdd: #IstanbulSofiaEkspresi 2x
- :tcdd: #GüneyEkspresi
- :cfr: IRN #Dacia
- 6 #AzadiBus trips
- 🇹🇷 Malatya - :flag_krd: Amed / 🇹🇷 Diyarbakır night bus
- :flag_krd: Amed / 🇹🇷 Diyarbakır - :flag_krd: Hewlêr / 🇮🇶 Erbil day bus
- :flag_krd: Hewlêr / 🇮🇶 Erbil - :flag_krd: Zaxo / 🇮🇶 Zakho day bus
- :flag_krd: Zaxo / 🇮🇶 Erbil - :flag_krd: Êlih / 🇹🇷 Batman night bus
- 🇹🇷 Istanbul - 🇹🇷 Kapikule night bus
- 🇧🇬 Русе / Ruse - 🇷🇴 Bucuresti / Bucharest day bus
- 17 travel days in total
- 8 days outbound travels
- 10 different trains
- 7 days homebound travels
- 12 different trains

I hope you enjoyed reading my travel reports and maybe found it inspiring ! Your feedback and likes kept pushing me to go further even during the most miserable travel days 🥰 !

#JinJîyanAzadî - keep fighting for a free, open and democratic Kurdistan ✊ !