All Aboard!
European railpass travel
Last January’s railpass price increases were very friendly. We won’t know most of the 2007 prices until the first of next year, but you can insure that you won’t have any unpleasant surprises by locking in 2006 prices before year-end.
All Aboard: Germany’s Rhineland Magic
Düsseldorf (phone +49 [0] 211/1720 20, www.duesseldorf-tourismus.de), which means “Village on the Düssel River,” is no longer a fishing village on the right bank of the Rhine River where the Düssel joins it.
Berlin’s new Hauptbahnhof
When Berlin’s new Hauptbahnhof (Hbf, or main train station) was inaugurated on May 26 this year with a free public party, eardrum-splitting music, a hip stage show, a choreographed light show and an open house (read: station) until 3 a.m., the crowd packed itself so tightly that it took two hours for ambulances to make
New Ghan: Adelaide and Kangaroo Island
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New Ghan: from Alice Springs to Adelaide
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Railpass question
by Jay Brunhouse Q:“Hello, Jay. Sure appreciate your making your e-mail address available to your readers. I’d like to get your thoughts on something. . .
Rhine-Main by S-Bahn
There is a myth that travelers cannot visit small European villages and towns by train. It gratifies me that my e-mail shows that more and more readers are discovering the large number of less-well-known cities and villages that they easily reach by train.