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Train Travel in Europe: The substitute bus

Sometimes your train... is a bus. Photo: Danny Schuhmann
Sometimes your train... is a bus. Photo: Danny Schuhmann

Nov 16 Rail travelers through Germany who have no great aptitude for languages usually manage to pick up the bare essentials after a few days. Among those essentials is the marvelously Germanic compound tongue-twister Schienenersatzverkehr (“SEV” for short). It’s not a word you’ll want to use a lot. And it’s not a word you’ll want to hear too » Read more

Posted in Alternative Transportation, Bordeaux, Bus, Finland, France, hidden europe, Practical Info, Train, transportation, Travel Smarts, United Kingdom

Bordeaux: 5 activities you won’t “wine” about

Bordeaux: 5 activities you won’t “wine” about

Dec 01 By C. H. Kwak— Type “Bordeaux” into Google and the all-knowing gods of auto-suggest will fill in “wine” for you. But I was inspired by my friend Emilie, a Bordelaise who doesn’t drink. She’d always told me there was plenty to do in Bordeaux that doesn’t involve red wine. I recently spent a week in » Read more

Posted in Bordeaux, City Guides, Day Trips, France, Wandering Cheapos