All posts tagged "trains"
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461News & BuzzTrains beat planes: Is this the future of travel?
Air travel used to be the favored form of going from Point A to Point B. Not any more it seems, and...
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402TravelEffective 9 September: Striking unions to disrupt rail service across the Netherlands
If you depend on Nederlandse Spoorwegen, the Netherlands’s national rail service, better start looking at other options as rail strikes continue across...
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1.0KExpat EssentialsPlan to be in the Netherlands for more than a couple of weeks? Get an NS Flex subscription
(Editor’s note: You can read more here about NS options. You can see Stephen Heiner’s “The American in Paris” blog here.) Whenever...
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852News & BuzzNew for 2022: Check out Dispatches’ list of free or reduced train fares and transport discounts across Europe
Good news for train travelers in Europe this summer: Several countries have taken measures to reducethe travel costs for residents and tourists,...
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1.5KTravelVenice to Vienna by train: How to book two fabulous cities and the train routes in between
I originally flew to Venice to visit a professor friend of mine who teaches at the University of Padua, just outside of...
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1.0KLifestyle & CultureInstead of flying, Jackie Harding takes the ICE train from the Netherlands to Vienna
I made Greta Thunberg happy this Christmas by taking the decision to travel to Vienna, Austria,by ICE train from the Netherlands for...
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5.2KLifestyle & CultureJoanna Storie in Latvia: Comparing the alternatives to flying as I travel across the Baltics
(Editor’s note: This is Pt. 1 of a 2-part series comparing flying, which has a huge carbon footprint, with less polluting modes...
