feel like shit just learned as I was doing some casual rail network in other countries reading that you can go from London -> Moscow -> Beijing via connecting railways/the trans siberian railway.
Moscow
Also, it takes a long time and is prohbitely expensive.
I'm interested in doing it too. Unfortunately I've talked to people who've done it and they all said it's cool for the first few days but then the rest of it is just rolling past the same trees for days on end.
If you want to ride high speed rail just for the hell of it, take the Japanese Shinkansen. The Chinese Harmony Trains aren't nearly as good, and the food SUCKS. They foisted the contract off to someone's brother in Beijing and he's retired in Canada on all the money he made serving substandard food to passengers.
I'm setting my sights on the more immediately realistic goal of the recently renationalised Caledonian Sleeper to and from Scotland.
Cause it's like a week and a half stuck in a metal box, eating shitty food.
I heard the trans Siberian railway is full of thieves who get on for a short segment, rob you blind, and get off at the next stop.
Because just taking a train from Norway to Sweden costs a stupid amount of money, so I'm not even going to look up how much going all the way to China costs.
Norway to Sweden
okay but Norway is involved. I once got a pizza in Oslo and they charged me the equivalent of 75 dollars
Lol yeah, apparently Oslo is one of the three most expensive cities on the planet, the others being New York and Tokyo.
Might have changed now tho, but that was a thing like 10 years ago.
A little less than ten years ago me and a friend went over on the ferry to see an old friend who was managing a cafe. It was right around the sudden popularity of good British craft beer and we filled our bags with cans as 'heavy drinking Brits on the ferry' to smuggle them in for our friend's cafe to sell at a better price in exchange for free food and crashing in his flat above the place. It was basically the world's slowest, politest, lowest stakes Smokey & The Bandit.
yeah it was pretty good. real cheese, some toasting/browning from a properly hot oven
i don't have middle class money to go travelling
lmao, the ticket is already over 300 quid one way and i haven't hit russia yet
