The general tips and advice summarise how to travel with bicycles on trains in Europe, but specific terms depend on where you will be travelling and which train will be providing the service. Hence the guides to taking bikes on trains in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and The Netherlands.
These ideas should save you time, money and stress when choosing where to stay on your own bespoke European rail adventure. They'll make the need to transfer between the station and a hotel etc as simple as can be!
Planning where to go with a Eurail or Interrail pass is fun, but time consuming. You can now that save time as we've put together these five ready-made and fabulous rail pass itineraries for you to follow.
The train timetables on continental Europe have had their major annual update, so we summarise the major changes - the new routes and trains which will also be in service for much of 2019. We also include which key train services have also been discontinued.
Having travelled more than 30,000 km around Europe by train in the past 18 months, we have some useful advice to pass on, which will help maximise the pleasure of taking European trains - and avoid the pitfalls which we've encountered!
Our guide to travelling with kids on European trains includes five great tips from leading family travel writer Imogen Hall AND all the practical info you'll need about booking tickets and finding the best deals for your family!
A highly detailed guide to the often wonderful, but occasionally quirky mode of transport that is the European overnight train, A journey by them is usually a very different experience to being on a daytime train, so we take you through what to look out for - both when booking your accommodation and when you're on board.
Our guide to using Eurail or InterRail to explore Europe by train is packed with info, tips, itineraries and insights - gained from our experiences of using rail passes to travel more than 30,000 kilometers around Europe by train.
Exploring Italy by train is the best way to make the most of a beautiful country, but Italian trains and the terms of using tickets and rail passes to travel by them, are varied, Hence our guide to making travelling by Italian trains less complicated than it can first seem - it will save you time, money and confusion.
Our guide to taking a train from a major station in Italy explains all you need to know, from what to be aware of when buying tickets at a station, to how to use the departure information to make your way to the train - plus insights into the facilities you can expect to find at the station etc.