It was almost two years ago when I travelled all the way to Russia to travel aboard the Trans-Siberian – a legendary train crossing almost 1/3 of the planet: 3 countries and the deepest lake in the world, Lake Baikal.
This year, I decided to visit the Scandinavian north, on a last-minute trip I combined with an exciting rail trip to the Arctic. After doing some online research, I decided I would fly to Sweden, explore Stockholm and then, I would take the night train from Stockholm to Kiruna – the northern part of Sweden near the Arctic Circle. From there, I would take a flight back to Stockholm.
Meteora is an extraordinary place. My heart stopped when I got off the train in Kalampaka. I looked up towards the immense, solid rocks and I remember exclaiming:…
Cinque Terre, the five villages. Set amid one of the most picturesque and romantic sceneries of the world, Cinque Terre had me at hello! This remote part of…
It all began with a hashtag on Instagram. I searched it, in order to find some photos of my favorite train route – the Trans-Siberian one. Only this time,…
I was born in Komotini but I live in Athens. The summer of 2006, during the second year of my university studies, I happened to fell in love…
I entered the Law School of Democritus University of Thrace in Greece in September 2004 and this is when all the train madness begun. Splitting my time between…
I’m not gonna lie, it was quite difficult for me to remember a trainstory worth talking about… And as I was desperately trying to remember a story to…
The train is like a tabula rasa. It doesn’t have an identity, a memory or a history by itself. On the train the passengers linger temporarily, and remain…
An Idea, a destination, a time schedule, a ticket, a discussion, the determination, the preparation, a train Station and ………a train! A trainstory starts like this, after going through the above…
