destructdiscNobody takes a train from Germany to France
I had a US colleague stay with me in Ireland for a week and he was asking if it was possible to catch a train to England. It’s amazing the geographic ignorance of some people and Americans seem to be especially afflicted. Maybe it’s because the USA is so big and large cities so far apart it doesn’t occur to them that Europe is not the same.
I took the train from brussel to sicily.
… Your train went on a boat to sicily? From where? Marseille ? Never heard of this, i’m curious
I mean it’s actually quite unique to sicily, but there is a boat that starts in reggio (on the tip of the boot) and ferrys to messina, sicily. It have rails connection, so the train is loaded on the boat on one side and discharged on the other side.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_train_ferries#Italy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_float
Apparently there are also similar connection between Varna and Odessa (awesome, after the war I’d love to do that). It would be awesome to have them between Ireland and the UK. There’s the booze cruise between hollyhead, wales and Dublin. People used to take them during holiday in ireland (because alcohol sales was forbidden) just to get pissed during the crossing and back lmao