Bruges Bruges (Brugge in Dutch) had been recommended to us, and we sure were glad to follow up on that lead. It is such a beautiful city and is sometimes referred to as the Venice of the north due to all its canals. It is a real fairy tale city and a must do when […]
Transport and accomodation From Cologne to Brussels it was obligatory to reserve a seat in addition to our interrail ticket. We were able to do that online at bahn.de and it was only about 9 EUR for a family reservation. Again we stayed at Novotel and this time in addition to gym and sauna there […]
Thunderstorm in Aachen While staying in Cologne we took a day trip to Aachen. Aachen is a smallish city close to the borders of Belgium and Netherlands. We had checked the weather forecast the night before and it was supposed to be dry and warm on our day of travel. Due to failure to check […]
Transport and accommodation The train-ride from Munich to Cologne was the toughest one. It was almost 5 hours and our youngest one got travel sick. We were not properly prepared for that but were able to manage the situation with what we had on hand. We learned from the experience and remembered to always have […]
Transport and accomodation It tooks us just under 2 hours to travel from Innsbruck to Munich. Accomodation in accordance with our budget was not available near the city centrum so we stayed at a budget hotel near Munich Messe – Hotel New Fair Munich Messe. The hotel was ok for the price, but nothing more […]
Transport and accomodation The trip from Bern to Innsbruck took us about 4 hours. We were lucky do get seats as the train was pretty crowded. Due to discrepancies of information in the Rail app and on the Interrail website we were unsure if we needed seat reservation. We took our chances and were not […]
Accomodation and transport After Basel we headed straight to Bern. It only took us about an hour by train. We stayed in an AirBnB apartment which was very conveniently located near the old town. It was most practical for us to buy a six-fare ticket per person for city transport. Like Bern, Basel also offers […]
A decision had been made to make Switzerland our next destination after Paris. Basel was chosen as it is close to the borders and therefore quick to travel to (~ 4 hours). The kids travel stamina had to be taken into the account. In addition to our interrail ticket a seat reservation had to be […]
We took a red-eye from Iceland and arrived in Paris around 6 am. There is a while since we booked the flight so I’m not really sure what we were thinking, booking a flight at this hour with 2 children, but I think we didn’t have much option and other flights around our traveling date […]
The rails ahead… In the year 2000, me and Fannar had just graduated from the Commercial Collage of Iceland. We had been dating for less than a year. After graduation we decided to live in Copenhagen for the summer and try to find a job. After a week there we decided upon going to the […]