This route takes in several glorious north Italian cities from Genoa in the west to Venice in the east – a veritable feast of art and architecture, along the way swapping the Mediterranean for the ...

Let’s not beat about the bush. The main rail route linking Cologne with Berlin will hardly inspire you with fine scenery. A sleek ICE train leaves Cologne Hauptbahnhof (Hbf) hourly for the German ...

This route takes in some of the finest townscapes and countryside in Normandy. It is one of the shorter adventures in this book. The entire journey as described in the book can be completed using just ...

Route 17 is for those less inclined to hurry. It is a leisurely amble through some of Atlantic Europe’s most striking cultural landscapes: the Loire Valley, Aquitaine and the Basque region. The ...

We like this route. Of course, we like all the routes in this book, but we especially like this one. It’s short and sweet, taking in a feast of fine cities as well as, especially in the early stages, ...

We use a regional train to travel from Paris to Burgundy, then continue via Lyon to Geneva. The classic line south from Paris (via Sens and Dijon) which we describe here is dubbed the ...

Let’s go to Transylvania! And ever further. We’ll venture to the shores of the enigmatic, stubborn sea which marks the very edge of Europe. This journey will take us from Vienna to Venus. Now we sense ...