I grew up in one of the towns you drove past. For me growing up there along the rhine, I mostly saw it as a grey river surrounded by old creaky buildings... It's a nice thing to feel your sense of amazement at what was so normal to me. You've inspired me to go back to visit.
We all take things for granted !! I am not a beach goer ,but lived in Santa Monica & Maria Del Rey for many years because I thought safe / nice area & the air would be cleaner ( actually affected my lungs badly for the dampen moisture in the air !! ) ,many asked me how often I went to the beaches & how envied they were !! Lol. When traveling the world ,in different countries, everything is different, we see it from different aspects/ angles !! The locals / natives to the land have different points of views as they're so accustomed to their environments ,stopped appreciating the details ,or forgotten as life happens, or their lives are too busy to pay attentions to those anymore !! Just like the childhood sensations get lost in the transition entering adulthood !! Shame ! Also ,visiting & actually living in the country ,or area are totally different. So ,the opinions often contradict ! I know all the countries in this world are beautiful !! Though all has good / bad places / pros & cons !! Some are more stunning than others ( views ) !! My No.1 faves are Italy / Wales & Argentina has been coming so close now ,although haven't visited there ,yet !! Canada is amazing ,too especially Banff ( haven't been there ,yet )& Quebec !! Poland is beautiful, too !! Santorini is gorgeous !! This area along the river where you grew up in is definitely one of the most gorgeous picturesque places on earth for sure !!! I love love rivers !! I'd love to go on a cruise excursion ,or cruise tour along the river there !!! 👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶💞
Taking random trains in Germany is my favorite activity. With the 49€ ticket it doesn’t cost me anything extra and with my schooling I have LOTS of extra time. I’ve done this exact route, it’s extremely pretty but I hate how crowded it gets on weekend! I also suggest Frankfurt- Kassel. Not as scenic but lots of Agriculture!
Well done, Oliver. Your channel is getting off to a great start. it takes me back to the wonder of travelling by train when I was a young man and I'm so pleased to be able to share your delight through your well presented video.
I can't thank you enough, Chris. I really appreciate you saying that. In the past couple of months I've discovered a new love for train travel. At shorter distances, nothing can compare. I'm so glad I brought back some memories for you. I plan on making many more travel videos by train in the future!
Damn I look forward to these videos each week. The struggles, the scenery, the editor insight, and the background music that displays what you were feeling during these moments make the videos smooth and super enjoyable to watch. Just brilliant on yah👏
We are heading to that region in a month! Excited to return after about 15 years. I drove that route by car and pulling into a medieval town (Bacharach) through the ancient town wall - on a cobblestone street barely wide enough for our mini car - I was freaking out! We felt like we'd stepped waaay back in time. It was a wild first impression, also the start of our trip there. Now our kids are teenagers and we are going to return.
“Never know if you don‘t go!“ You are wise beyond your years! 😊 Your German skills came in handy! Schönes Video - brought back memories of my stay in St. Goarshausen and attending an open air music concert atop the Lorelei cliffs in the 80s, as well as biking along the river Rhine!
I gotta say well done on the report cause it feels like a more genuine experience the majority of travelers can relate to. There are dozens of Americans (or Canadians i guess) first time in Germany videos which just seem over the top and don‘t match with how i experience traveling.
I have been to Germany both the past 2 years, 2023 and 2024, and traveled by train most of the time. Yes, the German rail system is magnificent and really FAST. Several times the speed was on the display at 315 kph, which is near 200 mph. It's relatively quiet and easy to carry on a conversation. I didn't take this Rhine valley trip, but went to Koeln (Cologne) and took a full day river cruise with my daughter and had a 3 hour stop to visit Schloss Drachenburg in 2023.
i did took that "ICE" train from Koln(Cologne) to Basel(Bale) in 2007. Great, that's where I found out I need to go and visit Bacharach as a jewel village, later by bicycle.
Took this route myself a bunch of times, unluckily in high summer with an only half working A/C and a train that would make around 5 long stays in between. Amazing panoramic route though, has one of the most famous wine and highest concentration of castles in the whole country.
That was a pretty good trilogie so far I’d say ! Making it successfully in the plane without a negative test, avoiding life ban prison for potential bomb threat, managed to find your way through Toronto’s airport maze and the Frankfurt’s one, closely missing your two trains ... all in all, could be worse i’d say 😂
Couldn’t have said it better. When you put it that way it makes me think about how lucky I am😂 Successful journey without a doubt. Plenty of reasons to be happy:) To many more and possibly less fortunate adventures down the line! 🥂
The VIA RE10 train goes all along the Rhin River stopping in all romantic villages. The journey itself is a marvellous option to enjoy the Loreley part (UNESCO) I would highly recommend to travel it in summer; sun, flowers, green allround, an spectacle...
I remember my first time on a train in Germany when I was like 8 the view was good as I remember, but I was more interested in the double decker train.
Next time you better take the a connection flight to LUX. Mostly it isn’t even much more expensive than the long haul flight alone, if you do all flights in one booking (Toronto-Luxembourg) you pretty much always just pay 20 or 30 bucks more. But you don’t have that beautiful scenery though ;)
Ah yes, the route along the Loreley. It's the alternative route from Frankfurt / Hanau into Cologne and the Ruhr Valley. You can decide wether you want to save time and take the new route from Frankfurt over Montabaur and Cologne (where you usually have to switch trains), before heading into the Bergisches Land (Solingen / Wuppertal) and the Ruhr Valley in Dortmund. Or you go down the "scenic" route by Koblenz which is a good hour longer, but far more beautiful. Take it twice a month and the landscape never fails to impress.
During my short 3 weeks in Germany I was very impressed by the train system other than on a couple of occasions having some minor delay due or even trains departing from different platforms. I’m thinking the latter is a fairly common theme from what I’ve heard. Regards from New Zealand
In my experience there are usually pre-recorded English announcements on Intercity trains, but not so often for station announcements or on local trains. Some conductors with reasonable English will make an effort for out-of-the-ordinary announcements.
@@ChrisH-1952 At Airport's the announcements are always in German and English, doesn't matter if regional or long-distance train. You can even hear them in the video.
Something I would expect at Frankfurt Airport. But esp. if it comes to short notice changes announced by a person - not the common computer voices - they are often in German only. Or the English version is just a rough summary. Even on this train the speaker missed to announce the next stop (Mainz) in German. And in English also Koblenz as the stop next after. Normally the next stop should be always announced. Than at least the next important railway knot - which is Koblenz.
I'm trying to figure out which train to buy tickets from to travel from Dusseldorf to Bacharach Germany. Which train did you book while traveling alone the Rhine River? Would you book it again?
Your Canada, but your Family is living in Luxemburg? I can visit them bcs im on the border from Germany to Luxemburg. It's normally to change the trains in Koblenz because when you want to take a train in Trier (Germany) and you want to go to cologne, it's only that you change trains in Koblenz
You're like me when traveling ...I almost miss trains ,or planes even because they changed the gates ,or trains at last minutes !! Lol. I always have to pee everywhere ,too !! LOL I thought train systems in U.K.were bad !! Germans are very logical,though ! They even explain which platform tracks to wait at on the boards on platforms ! Which just saw that in another video ! The views of Rhine river 😍!! I'd love to take a river cruise there someday soon in my life !!! Thank you for this video !! 👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶💞
But this route is no option if your destination is Luxembourg. Apart from this - if you have the time the route along the Rhine is much more scenic as one can see in this video.
Kannst du nicht Deutsch sprechen? haha I really enjoyed watching your vlog and your first impressions. On your trip it was an old "slow" ICE 1 or 2, not bad though. The view is absolutely incredible, it would made make me move straight to Rhine valley, I mean, compared to Moncton... the difference hurts.
HAHA...nur ein kleines bisschen. Ich kann es gut verstehen weil mein Vater Deutscher ist. Thanks man! Anything is "fast" to me compared to VIA Rail in Canada. Your comment about Moncton made my family laugh. Unfortunately you aren't exactly wrong😂 and as much as it is cheaper to live here, we still have affordable housing issues. I'd like to move somewhere warmer soon, Europe has always sounded ideal to me. Have to keep working on my French and German though!
@@OliverPriemer Ach ja hahaha sorry Fun Fact für ein Eisenbahnfan, der Deutsche Bahn ICE ist schneller im Frankreich, weil es keine 320 km/h Eisenbahnstrecke in Deutschland gibt. En parlant d'aller vite : 417 km/h sur l'Autobahn en Bugatti haha ua-cam.com/video/7pg1hhW5qhM/v-deo.html Il est tout de même dispendieux d'habiter au Canada. Par exemple, en Europe, tu peux avoir un forfait 5G pour téléphone portable avec 210+ Go de données (débit réduit après 210 Go, et en plus tu as 25 Go de données à l'étranger y compris au Canada) pour 20€ par mois en incluant 20% de taxes. Tu n'as même plus besoin de payer pour avoir le wifi chez toi, tu utilises la 5G. Chez Rogers... tu payes 175$ par mois - sans compter les taxes - pour seulement 100 Go uniquement au Canada. ça coûterait 400$ par mois (avec taxes) pour avoir 200 Go??? Forfait internet fibre débit maximal : 40€ avec taxes en Europe, 120$ hors taxes chez Bell Les tests PCR Covid-19 étaient gratuits en Europe, au Canada il fallait payer 100 ou 200$, etc De plus les transports ici sont très abordables et rapides. C'est très facilement des centaines de dollars/euros qui sont économisés chaque mois. J'en ai déjà parlé avec des amis, nous n'avons pas trouvé que la vie était moins chère au Canada haha
@@paname514 You're absolutely right about cellphone and internet costs here. I was talking about this with my German relatives and was blown away by how cheap it is compared to what we pay. It must be due to many factors like competition, infrastructure, and government subsidy - especially for random costs like COVID tests as you mentioned. And yes, I do love the autobahn...110km speed limit is the standard here but although empty roads and nearly no traffic is a huge plus.
@@OliverPriemer Yeah and to be honest sometimes you can get good deals on your phone plan: 2€ for the very 210 Go phone plan. It's insane value. True that many roads are empty in Canada however in Montréal and Toronto it's quite the nightmare because of the inadequate public transit. Wasn't amazed by all the heavily damaged roads either, you can't drive fast
@@OliverPriemer It's an ICE 1. 5:28 car # 802 367-3 is part of ICE 1 trainset # 154 "Lichtenfels" ICE 1 and 2 trainsets cannot use the highspeed bypass of the Middle Rhine Valley from Frankfurt to Cologne. Only more modern/powerful ICE trainsets can drive on this highspeed line.
"So fast"... when the train is only going 150 km/h... That is not even considered "high-speed". ICEs will go 300 km/h on high-speed lines. In France, 320 km/h on some lines are the norm.
As a commuter going through The Valley daily i can tell you it’s still vey cool every time
I grew up in one of the towns you drove past. For me growing up there along the rhine, I mostly saw it as a grey river surrounded by old creaky buildings... It's a nice thing to feel your sense of amazement at what was so normal to me. You've inspired me to go back to visit.
We all take things for granted !! I am not a beach goer ,but lived in Santa Monica & Maria Del Rey for many years because I thought safe / nice area & the air would be cleaner ( actually affected my lungs badly for the dampen moisture in the air !! ) ,many asked me how often I went to the beaches & how envied they were !! Lol.
When traveling the world ,in different countries, everything is different, we see it from different aspects/ angles !! The locals / natives to the land have different points of views as they're so accustomed to their environments ,stopped appreciating the details ,or forgotten as life happens, or their lives are too busy to pay attentions to those anymore !! Just like the childhood sensations get lost in the transition entering adulthood !! Shame ! Also ,visiting & actually living in the country ,or area are totally different. So ,the opinions often contradict ! I know all the countries in this world are beautiful !! Though all has good / bad places / pros & cons !! Some are more stunning than others ( views ) !! My No.1 faves are Italy / Wales & Argentina has been coming so close now ,although haven't visited there ,yet !! Canada is amazing ,too especially Banff ( haven't been there ,yet )& Quebec !! Poland is beautiful, too !! Santorini is gorgeous !! This area along the river where you grew up in is definitely one of the most gorgeous picturesque places on earth for sure !!! I love love rivers !! I'd love to go on a cruise excursion ,or cruise tour along the river there !!! 👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶💞
Going to Frankfurt today and taking train to Koblenz because of this video. Very excited to see it! End of trip to Greece before returning home.
Blows my mind every time to think sharing a video here might actually influence someone's decisions. Hope you enjoyed!
Taking random trains in Germany is my favorite activity. With the 49€ ticket it doesn’t cost me anything extra and with my schooling I have LOTS of extra time. I’ve done this exact route, it’s extremely pretty but I hate how crowded it gets on weekend! I also suggest Frankfurt- Kassel. Not as scenic but lots of Agriculture!
Well done, Oliver. Your channel is getting off to a great start. it takes me back to the wonder of travelling by train when I was a young man and I'm so pleased to be able to share your delight through your well presented video.
I can't thank you enough, Chris. I really appreciate you saying that. In the past couple of months I've discovered a new love for train travel. At shorter distances, nothing can compare. I'm so glad I brought back some memories for you. I plan on making many more travel videos by train in the future!
Damn I look forward to these videos each week. The struggles, the scenery, the editor insight, and the background music that displays what you were feeling during these moments make the videos smooth and super enjoyable to watch. Just brilliant on yah👏
Man Dom, you know how to shower praise. Taking some time to soak this comment in😂😊. Thank you very much kind sir.
We are heading to that region in a month! Excited to return after about 15 years. I drove that route by car and pulling into a medieval town (Bacharach) through the ancient town wall - on a cobblestone street barely wide enough for our mini car - I was freaking out! We felt like we'd stepped waaay back in time. It was a wild first impression, also the start of our trip there. Now our kids are teenagers and we are going to return.
I loved traveling by ICE in Germany
Thanks for posting this.I was stationed in Mainz in 1983.AWESOME
“Never know if you don‘t go!“ You are wise beyond your years! 😊 Your German skills came in handy!
Schönes Video - brought back memories of my stay in St. Goarshausen and attending an open air music concert atop the Lorelei cliffs in the 80s, as well as biking along the river Rhine!
Thank you☺️♥️ Yes, they certainly did! I won’t forget that experience. I would absolutely love to bike along it someday.
I gotta say well done on the report cause it feels like a more genuine experience the majority of travelers can relate to. There are dozens of Americans (or Canadians i guess) first time in Germany videos which just seem over the top and don‘t match with how i experience traveling.
I have been to Germany both the past 2 years, 2023 and 2024, and traveled by train most of the time. Yes, the German rail system is magnificent and really FAST. Several times the speed was on the display at 315 kph, which is near 200 mph. It's relatively quiet and easy to carry on a conversation. I didn't take this Rhine valley trip, but went to Koeln (Cologne) and took a full day river cruise with my daughter and had a 3 hour stop to visit Schloss Drachenburg in 2023.
It’s very beautiful down there in the valley of river Rhine.
Have a good trip, waiting for next video 👍
Thank you!
i did took that "ICE" train from Koln(Cologne) to Basel(Bale) in 2007. Great, that's where I found out I need to go and visit Bacharach as a jewel village, later by bicycle.
I love trains in Germany Holland, World should learn more from the leader in public transportation
Woah! Beautiful footage! I actually live in the area that you passed! Nice journey
I traveled this route. It is spectacular.
Lived in Germany for five years by the time I was ten. We took a cruise on the Rhine along basically the same route as your train.
Nice video Oliver ⭐️
thanks bruv
Grobartig Video!👍
Love this video, very engaging. Keep up the good work!
Thanks Monette😊
Took this route myself a bunch of times, unluckily in high summer with an only half working A/C and a train that would make around 5 long stays in between. Amazing panoramic route though, has one of the most famous wine and highest concentration of castles in the whole country.
Really good video bro! keep it going!
Haha thanks Nico!! Glad you liked it.
It is a time warp to the medieval. I am German and love this valley
That was a pretty good trilogie so far I’d say ! Making it successfully in the plane without a negative test, avoiding life ban prison for potential bomb threat, managed to find your way through Toronto’s airport maze and the Frankfurt’s one, closely missing your two trains ... all in all, could be worse i’d say 😂
Couldn’t have said it better. When you put it that way it makes me think about how lucky I am😂 Successful journey without a doubt. Plenty of reasons to be happy:) To many more and possibly less fortunate adventures down the line! 🥂
This region of Germany 🇩🇪 and France 🇫🇷 is beautiful !
Well done - enjoyed
You should take the train from Braunau in austria over Salzburg to Feldkirch. It is one of the most beautiful train rides that I have seen.
Well you definitely earn brownie points from me, love the train videos 🤩🤩
of course you do, Noah😂
Nice vlog! Great presentation. I am a new subscriber to your channel. Greetings from Plano, Texas, United States.
I‘m from Koblenz! Cool to see my home area from a train :) thanks for sharing 👌
The VIA RE10 train goes all along the Rhin River stopping in all romantic villages. The journey itself is a marvellous option to enjoy the Loreley part (UNESCO) I would highly recommend to travel it in summer; sun, flowers, green allround, an spectacle...
I remember my first time on a train in Germany when I was like 8 the view was good as I remember, but I was more interested in the double decker train.
Next time you better take the a connection flight to LUX. Mostly it isn’t even much more expensive than the long haul flight alone, if you do all flights in one booking (Toronto-Luxembourg) you pretty much always just pay 20 or 30 bucks more. But you don’t have that beautiful scenery though ;)
Oliver, you're a pro - I felt like I was watching Casey Neistat or someone like that!
Not every day that I am unironically compared to Casey Neistat. Thanks Matt! It means a lot to me.
Ah yes, the route along the Loreley. It's the alternative route from Frankfurt / Hanau into Cologne and the Ruhr Valley. You can decide wether you want to save time and take the new route from Frankfurt over Montabaur and Cologne (where you usually have to switch trains), before heading into the Bergisches Land (Solingen / Wuppertal) and the Ruhr Valley in Dortmund. Or you go down the "scenic" route by Koblenz which is a good hour longer, but far more beautiful.
Take it twice a month and the landscape never fails to impress.
That was a fast train but the TGV is goated when I was on one we went 313 kmh. Great video oliver
Yeah...I look forward to filming my reaction to those speeds in the future hopefully😂 max I did in this trip was 220 I think
Hm I live close to the rhine, I never thought of it that way cause I am used to it but I can see why it is so stunning for people now
During my short 3 weeks in Germany I was very impressed by the train system other than on a couple of occasions having some minor delay due or even trains departing from different platforms. I’m thinking the latter is a fairly common theme from what I’ve heard. Regards from New Zealand
Yeah, platform changes happen a lot. But for me it’s second nature since it happens atleast once a week to me.
DB normally provides English announcements, and you could even hear them in the video, so they surely announced it when the track changed, right??
It's likely they did... Honestly I was so scatterbrained, tired and confused that I wouldn't have noticed. Good to know though.
@@OliverPriemer Oh, okay. You're videos are great btw, keep them coming!
In my experience there are usually pre-recorded English announcements on Intercity trains, but not so often for station announcements or on local trains. Some conductors with reasonable English will make an effort for out-of-the-ordinary announcements.
@@ChrisH-1952 At Airport's the announcements are always in German and English, doesn't matter if regional or long-distance train. You can even hear them in the video.
Something I would expect at Frankfurt Airport.
But esp. if it comes to short notice changes announced by a person - not the common computer voices - they are often in German only. Or the English version is just a rough summary.
Even on this train the speaker missed to announce the next stop (Mainz) in German. And in English also Koblenz as the stop next after. Normally the next stop should be always announced. Than at least the next important railway knot - which is Koblenz.
I'm trying to figure out which train to buy tickets from to travel from Dusseldorf to Bacharach Germany. Which train did you book while traveling alone the Rhine River? Would you book it again?
Keep up the travel blogs, they're sick!
Thank you!!😁
Your Canada, but your Family is living in Luxemburg? I can visit them bcs im on the border from Germany to Luxemburg. It's normally to change the trains in Koblenz because when you want to take a train in Trier (Germany) and you want to go to cologne, it's only that you change trains in Koblenz
if a train is to late and the track is reserved it as to switch tracks
You're like me when traveling ...I almost miss trains ,or planes even because they changed the gates ,or trains at last minutes !! Lol. I always have to pee everywhere ,too !! LOL I thought train systems in U.K.were bad !! Germans are very logical,though ! They even explain which platform tracks to wait at on the boards on platforms ! Which just saw that in another video ! The views of Rhine river 😍!! I'd love to take a river cruise there someday soon in my life !!! Thank you for this video !! 👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶💞
Good video 👍👍
Thank you!
There is another train way to Cologne from Frankfurt that can be 300 km/h fast
I believe it! This way you get to take in all the view though...
But this route is no option if your destination is Luxembourg.
Apart from this - if you have the time the route along the Rhine is much more scenic as one can see in this video.
you need to travel from Cologne to Frankfurt airport to go on a fast train
2:24 Oh yes! This is what DB is famous for. And for delays!
Train rides in Germany >>>>
Kannst du nicht Deutsch sprechen? haha I really enjoyed watching your vlog and your first impressions. On your trip it was an old "slow" ICE 1 or 2, not bad though. The view is absolutely incredible, it would made make me move straight to Rhine valley, I mean, compared to Moncton... the difference hurts.
HAHA...nur ein kleines bisschen. Ich kann es gut verstehen weil mein Vater Deutscher ist. Thanks man! Anything is "fast" to me compared to VIA Rail in Canada. Your comment about Moncton made my family laugh. Unfortunately you aren't exactly wrong😂 and as much as it is cheaper to live here, we still have affordable housing issues. I'd like to move somewhere warmer soon, Europe has always sounded ideal to me. Have to keep working on my French and German though!
@@OliverPriemer Ach ja hahaha sorry
Fun Fact für ein Eisenbahnfan, der Deutsche Bahn ICE ist schneller im Frankreich, weil es keine 320 km/h Eisenbahnstrecke in Deutschland gibt.
En parlant d'aller vite : 417 km/h sur l'Autobahn en Bugatti haha ua-cam.com/video/7pg1hhW5qhM/v-deo.html
Il est tout de même dispendieux d'habiter au Canada. Par exemple, en Europe, tu peux avoir un forfait 5G pour téléphone portable avec 210+ Go de données (débit réduit après 210 Go, et en plus tu as 25 Go de données à l'étranger y compris au Canada) pour 20€ par mois en incluant 20% de taxes. Tu n'as même plus besoin de payer pour avoir le wifi chez toi, tu utilises la 5G.
Chez Rogers... tu payes 175$ par mois - sans compter les taxes - pour seulement 100 Go uniquement au Canada. ça coûterait 400$ par mois (avec taxes) pour avoir 200 Go???
Forfait internet fibre débit maximal : 40€ avec taxes en Europe, 120$ hors taxes chez Bell
Les tests PCR Covid-19 étaient gratuits en Europe, au Canada il fallait payer 100 ou 200$, etc
De plus les transports ici sont très abordables et rapides.
C'est très facilement des centaines de dollars/euros qui sont économisés chaque mois.
J'en ai déjà parlé avec des amis, nous n'avons pas trouvé que la vie était moins chère au Canada haha
@@paname514 You're absolutely right about cellphone and internet costs here. I was talking about this with my German relatives and was blown away by how cheap it is compared to what we pay. It must be due to many factors like competition, infrastructure, and government subsidy - especially for random costs like COVID tests as you mentioned.
And yes, I do love the autobahn...110km speed limit is the standard here but although empty roads and nearly no traffic is a huge plus.
@@OliverPriemer Yeah and to be honest sometimes you can get good deals on your phone plan: 2€ for the very 210 Go phone plan. It's insane value.
True that many roads are empty in Canada however in Montréal and Toronto it's quite the nightmare because of the inadequate public transit. Wasn't amazed by all the heavily damaged roads either, you can't drive fast
Which ICE train was this?
It’s either an ICE 1 or 2 according to @Paname514
@@OliverPriemer It's an ICE 1.
5:28 car # 802 367-3 is part of ICE 1 trainset # 154 "Lichtenfels"
ICE 1 and 2 trainsets cannot use the highspeed bypass of the Middle Rhine Valley from Frankfurt to Cologne. Only more modern/powerful ICE trainsets can drive on this highspeed line.
6:23 probably not Hogwarts but Durmstrang
its always so funny seeing foreigners interact with the average 60yo grumpy germans that dont really speak english LMAO. very good video :D
Thanks😅
"So fast"... when the train is only going 150 km/h... That is not even considered "high-speed". ICEs will go 300 km/h on high-speed lines. In France, 320 km/h on some lines are the norm.
You see, I’m used to VIA Rail Canada where if you break 100kmph you’re going fast
@@OliverPriemer Haha, I got that.
are u rich ???