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When I have the opportunity, I like to indulge in low-speed #train travel around #Europe accompanied by a Peruvian finger puppet which ruins what would otherwise be perfectly good travel pictures. linktr.ee/siegeavecvue

For those who only reluctantly leave their private jet at home, the Executive Class seats on Trenitalia's Frecciarossa trains are like thrones. On a Lyon-Saint-Exupéry to Paris train.

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🇳🇱 Goedemorgen Netherlands. Great overnight journey across Germany, woken on bouncy track a couple of times. Great to have a shower in the cabin. Then breakfast with scrambled eggs. On time arrival into Amsterdam 09:49 expected. Fab trip ÖBB! 🇦🇹

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My childhood memories include getting IC225s all the way down the ECML, so to sample one north of York for the first time since I was 16 was amazing, the memories certainly came back for sure! King Edward Bridge down, Royal Border Bridge next? Maybe one day

An IC225 train arriving into Grantham train station The interior of a MkIV First Class with the view of Durham Cathedral out the windowAn IC225 train at Newcastle train station A Service information display showing the stops of the train to Newcastle of Northallerton, Darlington and Durham

A Norwegian Stadler train continues my journey north and made time for awander around the nice town of Trollhättan. Featuring a very icy river! 🇸🇪

Icy river in TrollhättanVY (Norwegian railways) Stadler Flirt operating the 1414 service from Göteborg to Oslo SInterior of the VY Stadler FlirtAn ornate building housing a conference centre  in Trollhättan

I, for one, am entirely comfortable that I'm travelling through a Yellow weather alert for rain on a train line that I hope to return by tonight, which appears to be less than 2m above a saturated floodplain