writer, muse and explorer; slow traveller; author of 100s of articles on European life, culture and communities; from 2005 to 2023 co-editor of hidden europe.
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Recently moved home to Wannsee, so time to revamp social accounts too. No longer posting here but find me at nickygardner.bsky.social along with europebyrail.eu and hiddeneurope.eu. See you on the other side.
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Opinion | You thought UK train ticketing was a mess? Try booking one in Europe
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Read our thoughts about Trenitalia's expansion plans shorturl.at/qp3g5
Photo by Florian Pépellin (CC-BY-SA 4.0). Frecciarosa train 9296 from Milano to Paris at Modane.
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Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours. @Nicky_Gardner tries out the new service and says: ‘lovely ride‘, but asks: 'when can we expect it to speed up?’ theguardian.com/travel/2024/…
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Viaggi in treno per il Guardian c'è l'Italia 🇮🇹 e il Frecciarossa. Sullo storico quotidiano 📰 britannico 🇬🇧 un articolo di @Nicky_Gardner suggerisce degli itinerari ferroviari 🚉 da fare in inverno ❄️ in giro in Europa 👇fsnews.it/it/viaggiare/itine…
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Arriving in IJmuiden on a very lightly loaded and delayed King Seaways after a stormy overnight crossing from North Shields on the Tyne. @dfds_ukire @DFDSUKUpdates @DFDSGroup @EuropeanRailTT
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Industry in the Highlands. Balmenach distillery near Cromdale in Strathspey. Moody winter weather these past few days.
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Looking across Moray Firth to Black Isle near Nairn. One of our weekend walks. Looks so calm and mellow, yet just a few miles inland it was very wintry weather.
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Okay, so after more than two decades of hidden europe, what is our favourite European city? Our votes goes for Trieste. And you?
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An autumn afternoon on Pfaueninsel, a short hop on a ferry from Wannsee. #Berlin
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The heart of old Stolpe village on Wannsee island. Nowadays part of Berlin but another world from the city centre. Stolpe is one of two historic villages on Insel Wannsee; the other is Klein Glienecke.
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'I live in Germany - the best way to understand a country is to cross its borders'
🖊️ @Nicky_Gardner for @iPaperTravel this weekend
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A pic taken within the ramparts of Angers Castle. It looks so uninviting from the outside but such a wonderful, relaxing garden within.
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Wannsee, near Berlin. A striking piece of 1920s architecture, with faint echoes of brick gothic. A Roman Catholic church.
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Belle Époque style on a regular scheduled train from Montreux to Zweisimmen. Gorgeous landscapes, fabulous retro design on the train. No seat reservations necessary. No special supplements. @raileurope @bywaytravel @seatsixtyone @AndyBTravels @MySwitzerland_e @MySwitzerland_f
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If there is one thing we have discovered this past month, it is that exploring France by TER trains
and avoiding TGVs opens new horizons. Why rush when there are so many wonderful rural railways? @AndyBTravels @SimonCalder @bywaytravel @raileurope @Interrail
Very much liked Finn McRedmond's piece in @NewStatesman this week on poetry in a bad context, viz. poems on the underground #London
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The Loire at sunset last evening by Les Rosiers-sur-Loire. And today we travel from the Loire to the Rhine, crossing the Sarthe, Seine, Marne, Meuse and Moselle along the way.
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An old signpost that nicely captures two great French rivers at a département boundary.
