Flew into Heathrow London, via Dubai, on 25th April. After spending a few days in London, where we managed to catch up with a few friends we prepared for our European rail journey. Our trip took us from London to, Amsterdam in the Netherlands, to Cologne and Nuremberg in German, Prague in the Czech Republic, Vienna in Austria, and finally to Budapest in Hungry, then back home to Perth Western Australia. Our trip was a long term plan and we spent 23 day’s riding the rails.

As a brief overview of the trains. Leaving from St Pancras Station was pretty hectic but once on the train the four and half hour trip was very smooth. The DB trains,from Amsterdam to Cologne approx 2:40 hours and from Cologne to Nuremberg 3:40 hours were very clean and comfortable. However, the planned trip to Prague was changed due to maintenance and our trip’s mid way transfer at Schwandorf, a very easy cross platform transfer, was re routed to Regensburg. Here we had about 5 minutes to transfer from one platform to another. That in itself was okay but we did not know the train sitting on the platform had come from Prague and was heading to Munich. We found the train on the right platform and got on. It immediately pulled out. After a flush of panic and help from a young woman we were able to get off at the next stop, 25 minutes later, and get a train back to Regensburg, extending our overall trip by 2 hours. Not a huge disaster and something to tell friends about. From Regensburg just going to Prague was 4h:5 min.

A few of our rail trips. This trip is the pink route from London to Budapest.

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