Another day on the train today. We were split into two groups this morning and the first group drew the short straw – a 4.30am start. Our start was much more leisurely – we left the hotel at 8.45am for a 9.37am train to Warsaw. This one was a Polish train and was a bit of a contrast to previous newer trains, but once they sorted the whining noise over the...
If ever there was a city which made the case for not building a wall, then that city is Berlin. Today we had a full day in Berlin and they laid on a city tour for us. A prompt start at 9am meant that we had time to head all round the city. We stopped initially at the Reichstag. With the establishment of the German Reich in 1871, the Reichstag building was completed...
Well, we need to get used to longer train journeys, so today was good practice. It should have been seven and a half hours, but astonishingly the second (German) train was late, so it was about 15 minutes longer. We had quite a leisurely start leaving the Gare du Nord on the 11.46 to Essen. We changed at Koln (Cologne) and got a nice view of the cathedral from the...
On February 17th we start our journey to Hong Kong from St. Pancras. From London we head for Paris for one night and then on to Moscow via Berlin and Warsaw. At Moscow we board the Trans-Siberian via Ulan Bator to Bejing and then on to Hong Kong via Xian and Shanghai. The distances between each stop are: 0km London492km Paris1542km Berlin2092km Warsaw3348km...