Having been to Georgia earlier in the Summer, when a Wizz Air e-mail dropped into my inbox advertising their new flights direct from London Luton to Kutaisi, and that they were being released at a promotional rate, I booked almost straight away. I’d been looking for somewhere to go during the October half term and Read the Rest…
When PTG advertised their Montenegro Python tour, with ZCG Cargo 644’s, against my better judgement I took the plunge and booked on a GM tour. It would have been a nice sociable weekend, randomly with Alco bashers moonlighting. The method behind my madness was as this gave an opportunity to do Albania and then head Read the Rest…
This trip was an attempt to visit some parts of Switzerland that we’d only ever been to during the Winter months. Most prominently featuring the Aletsch Glacier, accessed from the gondolas that head up towards it from stations along the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn. As it was Summer we also planned to visit Rochers de Naye, Read the Rest…
Thursday 27th July 2017 (Madrid – Tren de Filipe II & El Escorial) Not an early start and after a decent breakfast we were Principe Pio bound, via Chamartin. While Renfe’s long-distance trains are reservation only, and pick-up or set-down only in Madrid, there was no hassle doing 226 0800 Chamartin – Almeria, with Read the Rest…
This trip was a long time in the planning stages but the time put in was worth the effort and meant I could enjoy the trip more while I was there; as everything was already taken care of. I’d wanted to cover the periphery of Europe for a while and as I had the time Read the Rest…
A week away at half term, where we hoped there’d be a lack of other people doing the same thing. It was more a trip based on where we could go from Doncaster Airport, that was cheap, had reasonable flights and fitted with our plans. A with most Wizz Air flights from Doncaster they don’t Read the Rest…
I’d been to Ukraine the previous year and had enjoyed it, I wasn’t quite sure if my wife would too at that time but having been I was safe in the knowledge that it was nowhere near as bad as I’d expect it to be; in fact, quite the opposite. So, a return trip was Read the Rest…
I almost didn’t take part in the Metrolink Diesel Gala of 2016 but a last-minute change of plan to an Eastern Europe trip had me hightailing across the planet from Warsaw to LA to mop up what would essentially be the dregs of the BNSF GE workings on Metrolink. 2 weeks before I would arrive Read the Rest…
With so many things left unfinished around the country it became frustrating attempting to try and do what I wanted on this trip; mainly because a lot of what I needed to do hadn’t yet opened for business yet. Namely the new line from Bangalore to Mangalore via Nelemangala & Hassan, which had been undergoing Read the Rest…
Christmas in Finland? Why the hell not! Despite planning this trip in June there wasn’t much hotel type accommodation available in the far north of Finland, only log cab type stuff; which is great if that’s what you’re looking for but I wasn’t planning on spending my limited time in Finland cooking my own meals Read the Rest…
I should have probably paid a lot more attention to what I was doing when planning this trip as I let things slip away that I probably shouldn’t have; although the Jaipur – Sikar MG section closing on 14th November would have been a bit of a bummer had I planned to do it; after Read the Rest…
Having put the time aside to do a three-week trip in eastern Europe it wasn’t until well into planning it that it was decided to cut it back and have a week in the California sunshine at the end of it; mainly because the person I was originally planning to go with could make it Read the Rest…
Who doesn’t want to say in a trip report that they’ve just been to Hel? And just for the sheer hell of it! Well that was literally what this trip was about, coupled with the fact that both Hel & Leba were apparently nice places. Flights Booked through Wizz Air W6-1615 2035 Doncaster – Gdansk Read the Rest…
Our previous trip to Peru in 2013 was so enjoyable that we decided to go back and try something different; with another trip to Machu Picchu thrown in for good measure! The basis of this trip was the dates that FCCA had advertised to run their Lima – Huancayo tourist trains and even more specifically Read the Rest…
A trip to Africa had been long overdue since my last jaunt to Malawi & Mozambique in 2012. Both Senegal & Cameroon had been on the horizon for a while but with Senegal having a spate of not running trains in Dakar at all planning this trip was somewhat delayed, by about 3 years, and Read the Rest…
A trip to Africa had been long overdue since my last jaunt to Malawi & Mozambique in 2012. Both Senegal & Cameroon had been on the horizon for a while but with Senegal having a spate of not running trains in Dakar at all planning this trip was somewhat delayed, by about 3 years, and Read the Rest…
A simple trip to Switzerland to basically cover the SBB Cargo Re4/4 turns that had started working in the December 2015 timetable change. As I left it late to book it worked out a lot cheaper to fly out and back to Budapest and do the overnight from Budapest Keleti to Zurich in either direction. Read the Rest…
Having never been to Bruges or been outside of railway premises in Amsterdam, Easter seemed like the sensible time to visit both; while the ultimate destination was Poland. Having booked flights back from Warsaw it wasn’t until I began looking at the trip properly that I realised just how long it would take to get Read the Rest…
By them time I’d figured out what I actually wanted to do on this trip I was on about the fifth plan! An original plan had included Khajuraho but as the new section linking Lalitpur to Khajuraho and completing the loop was almost finished that idea got scrapped in favour of heading to Ranchi. The Read the Rest…
Having missed a golden opportunity, which I actually blindly turned down in 2014, to go out to Chile and do the EFE run Santiago – Temuco train, I’d regretted not going ever since. So when I found out that the train was running in January & February 2016 I put together a very hastily planned Read the Rest…