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www.intercity.pl/en/ Tickets can be bought directly from the train operator, PKP! Enjoy your trip!

@@glasgowreports9710 wow! Thank you so much .

Thank you! Batumi was good, me and my friends enjoyed it there. Going out for meals and drinks was pretty cheap, and the beach was nice to relax. It's a pretty modern tourist city too. Hope you have a good time in Georgia!

A lot of interesting developments on this front in the last few weeks, hopefully it will lead to improvements in the coming months/years! Avanti certainly needs improvement.

Wow, thanks for letting me know!

Yeah, reliability doesn't seem to great in Sweden, three long distance trains this year I've used have been heavily delayed or cancelled. This particular one was annoying as was looking forward to the views from the train. Sounds like you got lucky with seeing brown bear!

Hit and miss in my opinion, sometimes I’ve had really good service and other times it’s been poor. I don’t think there’s any excuse though considering how much tickets retail for.

Sadly the second train from the border to Sofia doesn’t seem to be operating this year again, hopefully it returns one day.

Yes, although the train runs into Nyugati station in Budapest! Hope you enjoy

I love Romania, just not the seats overnight!

There are quite a few scenic spots along the line - personally I really like the views as you leave Stockholm central station!

That's great to hear! It is a lovely journey and I hope you enjoy your trip.

This train only runs during the summer months, while the sleeper train runs all year. Seating is allocated in advance but I found they were fine with you moving seats as long as no one else was sitting there. I would check out Man in Seat 61's guide to the route, he may be able to offer some tips!

I used an interrail pass for this trip, so seat reservations were included. However, you can get this journey for 521 SEK or 48 euros if you book online.

Thanks. Yeah we were planning on getting the train, but last minute train strikes put a stop to that. Still was decent for booking pretty much a few hours before!

@@glasgowreports9710 That makes sense now. How much was the train out of interest? (And comparison)

Yeah the A9 is also a great road to drive along. It is great being able to get the direct train from England to Inverness.

I find them a slight improvement over LNER's seats however.

Yeah, there is little chance I would pay full price for Avanti's first class product, considering the price and the difference in service it seems to have from various reviews. Funny that the standard premium now is what it often cost for first back in the day with Virgin.

You want to try EMR if you think Avanti's not up to scratch. They have "enhanced" the 1st class service that the previous operators provided. You get a sandwich and snacks during the day, they seem to run out of the vegetarian option quickly, so no sandwich if you don't eat meat or that particular meat (in the case of ham sandwiches). No hot food. No alcohol. Breakfast if you can call it that is a bread roll with a sausage and a half, plus breakfast snacks- yoghurt and packet croissant. oh and they've got rid of all the crockery but I suppose they don't need it anymore with the enhancements.

The departure time was 18:30 from London. Annoyingly had I known about the limited service I could have took the 17:30 departure from London. On my way down to London I had breakfast and it was excellent, with staff constantly offering more tea/coffee and snacks. I have heard such variation in the service offered too.

The journey took around 23 hours, including the one hour time difference. Sadly, the train from the Serbian border to Sofia doesn't seem to be running this year, so would have to be a bus from Nis in Serbia to Sofia.

It currently leaves Amsterdam at 19:00 arriving into Munich at 07:22, with a total journey time of 12 hrs 22mins. On this train there is the option of 6 berth couchettes, 4 berth couchettes, 1,2 and 3 berth sleepers and seated accommodation (which I wouldn't recommend). I used an interrail pass so only paid the reservation fee of 36 euros, more up to date fares can be found on OBB's website.

I am pretty sure the sleeper is summer only, so might not appear in the timetables yet. If you’re travelling in summer I would check again in a few weeks or even months.

hi! I am also trying to find this train for an Interrail this summer. Have you managed to find it?

It was our fault not booking far enough in advance for the sleepers so was in the 2nd class car which wasn't great. Would love to go back and try the sleepers, can you recommend then?

@@glasgowreports9710 1st class 2-bed or single sleeper is what I recommend because that's what I always use. I'll be in one of those just in a week. The title is "vagon de dormit" -> that's what CFR calls 1st class sleeper. "Dormit 2 paturi" is 285RON. Very comfy. Depending on the period, you can even find within a day. I just checked right now (Feb 2, 12AM Romania time) and there are 11 spots available for tomorrow at 8PM.

@@glasgowreports9710 better than 2nd class by all means

😂😅 I was going to ask the same question

The storm was battering Scotland on the day I was travelling with widespread travel disruption. Might not look too bad in the video but there was uncertainty about the sailing running due to the weather!

@@glasgowreports9710 The storm was battering the east coast, not the west coast. Uncertainty about the weather is not the same as a storm. I have been in a real storm and what you're showing isn't anything like it. Ferries are not allowed to operate during a storm. The absolute maximum is 8 Beaufort, and that's a strong gale, not a storm. Ferries will usually not sail if the wind speed reaches 6 or 7 Beaufort at departure. That makes it highly unlikely that anyone on any ferry will ever experience a storm.

@@jacquesmertens3369​​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠on the day we were travelling forecast was Beaufort 7/8 upon departure from Belfast, according to the Met Office. Wind gusts were high enough to reach 8 on the Beaufort scale, with peak recorded gusts of 52kts at the end of Belfast Lough. I have however updated the description to better describe that the heart of the storm was a considerable distance away, and we were merely experiencing some of impacts from it :)

@@glasgowreports9710 The path of a storm is very local and very unpredictable. Wave height is the determining factor. Local gusts have no influence on it. In order to create high waves you need consistent wind over a very large area. Based on your video footage I estimate the waves to be 3-4 m, not more. That's maximum 6 Beaufort. If the waves were 9-10 m you wouldn't be able to stand outside without holding on to the railing, and even then you'd struggle not be swept straight into the sea. To give you an idea what a real storm on a ferry (highly exceptional !) is like: furniture would be all over the place, there would be broken glass everywhere, everything not secured would be flying across the room, and even experienced staff would be throwing up. In the middle of the ship, on the lowest deck (the most stable point of a ship) it would feel like going 10 floors up and down in an elevator in a time span of 10 seconds. The staff would close all doors. You would never be allowed on deck. Consider yourself lucky you haven't been in that situation.

There wasn’t a border check on this bus

Yep, influencers get 100% off their tickets! Also total slander on being paid off…

Yes I did, the toilet was not great on this bus but I have seen much worse before. Quite surprised it was in okay-ish condition considering the length the bus had travelled from Lyon.

There is a bit of debate over how comfortable the seats are, especially when used over longer journeys such as this one. Personally I don’t find them terrible but there are much better seats out there that could’ve been used instead