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Braid in trains

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Nov 22

I caught up with the #KalmanImre 😴.

Fun-fact : ÖBB sell Augsburg - Stuttgart on the KalmanImre Imre but Munich - Stuttgart can't be reserved. Cursed.

Braid in trains

- solidarity with

Nov 22

Too late for #KalmanImre 🫠.

#Braidspoor finale : after a well coordinated togbus ride, I caught my last train for a while. A grimy but at least punctual IR MG will drop me in 🇩🇰 #Gelsted for #BornHack in a couple of minutes minutes.

This #Braidspoor trip was :

- 7 countries : 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇭🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇸🇪 🇩🇰
- 4 night trains ( #KálmánImre, #Hortobágy, Ш #Chronomorets, Ш 036 Одеса - Przemyśl)
- 1 night ferry
- 2 seas ( the Black Sea & the Baltic Sea )
- lots of joy & tasty food

Thanks a lot for reading my report !

💙💛 Stand with Ukraine 💙💛 !

Day 2 : leaving the

#KálmánImre behind, an

brought us back to the direction of 🇦🇹 Vienna. Sadly there are no showers in the central station meaning we'll have to wait until 🇺🇦 Київ tomorrow. Now a couple of hours to be spent in Austria ; enough time to say hi to friends and visit the local hack space @metalab ! #Braidspoor

night train number #1 : the comfortable

#KálmánImre

EuroNight will bring us to 🇭🇺 #Budapest while sleeping. The train is delayed by 20 minutes due to

InfraGO breaking a cargo train. With a night travel time of 12 hours, this does not really bother me. Now time to sleep and enjoy the relaxing motion of our train in the first night towards 🇺🇦 Київ ! #TeamNightTrain

Braid in trains

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Jun 22, 2025

All settled for my next #Braidspoor #CrossBorderRail trip : by waiting for 12 a.m. last night, I could catch two of the rare 149 #Hortobagy through carriage reservations from 🇦🇹 Wien Hbf to 🇺🇦 Київ Рас.

Since the were delayed in their booking system, I had to make use of the MÁV online system constraining international ticket purchases to stations from/to Hungary so in fact the ticket is only from Hegyshalom rather than Wien Hbf. Along with InterRail this shouldn't make a difference anyway, especially considering how we will first visit the dining car of the #SleeperAndEater anyway.

I'm very excited : I've already been in pretty any kind of Ukrainian sleeper carriages but the western-style RIC carriages of Ukrainian origin are something new to me anyway.

Our trip will be a long one : we will start in 🇫🇷 Alsace by regional train across the border to 🇩🇪 Germany and from 🇩🇪 Stuttgart on, the #KalmanImre will be taking us eastbound during night one. The first day will be a relaxed day in 🇦🇹 Wien (happy to meet fellow railway enthusiasts there, just poke me !), night two will bring us via 🇭🇺 Budapest and 🇺🇦 Львів to 🇺🇦 Київ where we planned delicious vegan dinner and sight seeing for my daughter who never went there before. Night three will bring us with the modern and comfortable 105К flagship to 🇺🇦 Одеса where we plan a relaxed day swimming in the Black Sea at the beaches of south of the town.

Because our destination sadly isn't Ukraine itself but 🇩🇰 Odense, night four will bring us north-westbound to 🇵🇱 Przemyśl in the through carriages of the 36Ш mainline. Day four will be a daytime travel day getting us to 🇵🇱 Gdynia at the Baltic Sea ports where night five will sail us by Stenaline over the sea to 🇸🇪 Karlskrona with the final part on day six via 🇩🇰 København to #BornHack on 🇩🇰 Funen island 🎉.

Stay tuned for railway travel reports !

Checking some #AzadiRail stats :

- 8375 km by train
- 9 countries :
- 🇫🇷 France
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- 🇦🇹 Austria
- 🇭🇺 Hungary
- 🇷🇴 Romania
- 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
- 🇹🇷 Turkey
-  #Kurdistan
- 🇹🇷 Turkish Kurdistan
- 🇮🇶 Iraqi Kurdistan
- 🇸🇾 #Rojava
- 6 night trains
-   #KalmanImre
-  IRN #Muntenia
-  #IstanbulSofiaEkspresi 2x
-  #GüneyEkspresi
-  IRN #Dacia
- 6 #AzadiBus trips
- 🇹🇷 Malatya -  Amed / 🇹🇷 Diyarbakır night bus
-  Amed / 🇹🇷 Diyarbakır -  Hewlêr / 🇮🇶 Erbil day bus
-  Hewlêr / 🇮🇶 Erbil -  Zaxo / 🇮🇶 Zakho day bus
-  Zaxo / 🇮🇶 Erbil -  Êlih / 🇹🇷 Batman night bus
- 🇹🇷 Istanbul - 🇹🇷 Kapikule night bus
- 🇧🇬 Русе / Ruse - 🇷🇴 Bucuresti / Bucharest day bus
- 17 travel days in total
- 8 days outbound travels
- 10 different trains
- 7 days homebound travels
- 12 different trains

I hope you enjoyed reading my travel reports and maybe found it inspiring ! Your feedback and likes kept pushing me to go further even during the most miserable travel days 🥰 !

#JinJîyanAzadî - keep fighting for a free, open and democratic Kurdistan ✊ !