Rail station © Steve Woods
Rail travel is not always the cheapest or the fastest mode of traveling, but I still love it. You can sit comfortable, have plenty of time admiring the beautiful landscape, you arrive in the center of the city, you don’t have to travel a long distance from an airport and you can do stops or change route whenever you want. Thanks to the sleeping-compartments/couchettes you can also depart late at night and wake up in a new city the next day.
The Interrail card is a good choice that lets you travel throughout Europe for up to a month. For separate journeys, see German DB (choose surf&rail International, for nigh train see Nachtzug or Sparnight) the Danish DSB (choose Tog-och flygbillet til udlandet Bestil togrejse) or Swedish SJ when traveling from Sweden.
The Berlin-Night-Express train takes you directly from Sweden to Berlin.
If you book from Malmo in Sweden or Copenhagen in Denmark two months in advance, you can find lots of cheap tickets to the rest of Europe.
From Germany with DB, you can travel from München to Venice (7 h) or Firenze (8 h) from $40 or from Berlin to Amsterdam (6 h) from $40.
Of all the train companies I’ve traveled with, the Swiss SBB is the cleanest and most punctual and convenient option. London to Paris with Eurostar wasn’t bad either.
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