Search results

In Apulia I could recommend Alberobello and the Castel del Monte. The former is accessible by train from Bari as well as Lecce on the Ferrovie del Sud Est. The latter can de done as a day trip by bus from Andria. Andria can be reached from Bari on the Ferrovia Nord Barese

FWIW there's also the 721 bus from the airport terminal to Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof. It arrives at and departs from the arrivals level.

I just put "reiseauskunft.bahn" into my search engine and was directed to the old interface. I couldn't log in to my account but I found everything else as before. I hope they don't disable this now. 1693987950 A correction: Once you go to https://reiseauskunft.bahn.de and look for a connection...

Frankfurt Flughafen would be infinitely better as both trains use the same platform there (Fern Gleis 4). At Frankfurt (Main) Hbf. it is Gleis 17 and Gleis 7 respectively.

When travelling in the direction of Cologne one gets a view on the left side of the town of Limburg with its Romanesque cathedral.

This video contains some clarifications:

The Saarbrücken (GE) to Sarreguemines (FR) tramline also runs partly on railway track and crosses an international border. And as for Lisbon trams - Beware of pickpockets!

A Sparpreis or SuperSparpreis Ticket can be used on any non-IC/ICE train running on the same route within the period of validity (two days).

If you take the S-Bahn from Solingen Hbf. to Düsseldorf and proceed to Köln from there using your Amsterdam to Köln ticket yoi'll save the Solingen to Köln fare which is €8.60.

They are valid on the Dusseldorf Airport Sky Train but last Friday it wasn't running. They had a bus service instead. The S11 train from the Terminal to the Dusseldorf main station is running normally.

Between the Müngstener Brücke and Schloss Burg you can cross the river Wupper on this contraption:

In both World Wars Bulgaria was allied to the side fighting against Russia/USSR.

Going back to the post-1815 German Confederation - this included Austria and Bohemia but not other parts of the Austrian Empire. The British monarch in his role as King of Hanover was also part of this entity. It was a military alliance and did play a role in suppressing the popular uprisings of...

According to Paul Theroux's "The Great Railway Bazaar" there was a through coach from Calais to Istanbul in 1973.

There's a station called Ib on the Indian railway system.

The BahnCard 100 for Germany (4,395 Euros) also includes public transport within all larger cities (the ones where a "City-ticket" is valid).

With the Summer time-table 1977 the name was changed from Simplon-Orient Express to Simplon Express and the train started terminating at Belgrade. I used it in August or September 1977 to travel from Divača to Postojna, both now within Slovenia. It reached Divača with a delay of 100 minutes and...

An amusing aside relating to the value of pi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill

In pre-literate languages the question of homographs does't arise. There homonyms are words with different meanings that sound alike but have two different origins. In a language with a standardized spelling the term "homograph" is usually restricted to pairs of words that are spelt in the same...

The train from Turkey to Iran crosses Lake Van in Eastern Turkey on a ferrry: http://www.tcdd.gov.tr/tcdding/ortadogu_ing.html