A century after the original golden age of the railway, trains are talking about traveling again. In Europe, in particular, the train journey is growing as a short -distance environmental alternative to flights, which has more nightmares, high -speed routes and international cooperation between rail companies. Political links between European countries may be surprising, but the cities are more connected.
Trains also return us to the romance of travel. Reading times invites to read and meditate because scenes show geography among places.
I travel to Sweden annually from my home in Florence, Italy. Looking for and flying contemporary culture of other cities, I developed a train Woodsi from the south of the Mediterranean from Scandinavine. Can travel with many providers and legs actually work? Using a Hedge Pod of Rail sites, I booked two weeks of trains for high -speed trains from Milan to Stockholm in Zurik, Berlin and Copenhagen: five cities in five countries.
One word of advice: A book a month or two to get the best prices. Check if A Euril Or Mutual links You can benefit from the pass. And pack the food – the food service on these routes is prominent and, when available, is the terrible industrial.
Instead of tourists’ tourism, I was ready to cross the continent, with the points of local friends.
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Milan has made itself a re – A dynamic city, which works with high polish people. The center of an international flight, this is an easy point for passengers coming from abroad.
Was my first stop Prada FoundationWhose contemporary exhibitions give the city a measure of cool and cultural compatibility. On the way to Corso Venezia, I went to the park and the streets full of wild experiments in the 20th -century architecture, then visited it Lougie Ravi FoundationIn the 19th century plazo, its Atroskin artifacts and modern art were modernized by Mario Kosnela.
In the evening, a friend joined the Nola with me-a long-running neighborhood north of Pyazil Lorito. After Aperitivo La Botti fetelA wine bar that occasionally hosts small concerts and exhibitions, we arrived at therming Puza Morbageno, where we ate. SloquinWhich has been loaded since last year. Chef Vladimiro Poma said about his “gastrointestinal tract”, “My dream was a place with a pleasant customer, not a McLean star.”
When I collided with a friend, the passenger probably try new Kasa Brivo In a couple of residential buildings, from the hotel (300 euros, or about $ 315), with a mid sanitary -infected sweets through the architect Matio Thor).
Its art deco and rational architecture, its growing halls and Roman -style mosaics, with its fascist era megallomaniaic scale and indiscriminate plaster advertising and LED screens, departing from the Central Station, always surprise me with surprise and anger. I boarded a line in jewelry.
On a stained Swiss train (3.5 hours; Ticket From 34 Swiss francs, or about $ 38), I noticed that the soft slopes of Italy give way to the faces of the Craje Mountains in Switzerland. Waterfalls explode with rocks, clouds with snow -covered alpine peaks, which are on the forest flower plains and black and white cows.
At a short distance from the station, I left my goods Lok M. Plotz (From 150 francs), which opened with apartment -style rooms, impressed by the Swiss design last year.
In a couple of days, I am walking around NudeIn a River Front Cafe TanzhausBrutal headquarters of the headquarters; to lweenbräukunst Art Center, a beer factory turned into art locations. Joseph Waves Park with its Patrick crowded and Alpine Chelite Bar.
By Berklipletz Puso Market, before arriving at Remistas, as well as galleries penetrated Kansathaus Switzerland’s largest museum after doubling its places in 2020 with David Chaparfield’s grave concrete block Monetth in 2020. Inside it, permanent storage paintings were hanged between the audience’s survey, such as questions: How to treat these tasks donated by a Nazi weapons dealer?
The jewelry is built on the coast of a swimming lake, and its photo books have been worked on the streets with the help of mountains with oranges-a beautiful alliance of nature and a flawless city. However, there is a Veb shift Route fabricA factory that has become a script center for alternative culture, where a new generation is packing calendar with concerts, parties and drag shows. In its graft-in-uncle courtyard, the DJ blew up the house’s music on the day he attended in one day, while a loaded “Quir Tango” class entered the class. For all jewelry prediction setting, there are also a promoted and unprecedented flour.
Across the lake, Le Corbasier PavilionA radical, in 1967, a home made of home, stood like a large stack of rainbow toy blocks. Hoping at the ferry at the center, I stopped Hesveen, An unprecedented natural wine bar that offers small plates and its own pickle vegetables. Back to my hotel, I sat on the balcony and was surprised at the city’s contentment.
Berlin
Deutsche Bahn Train I was riding (from 70 euros), but the scenes of this trip were made for it with Cornfields and grape garden hills, which moved to Flat Lands before the shock of the Flickro -Bose buildings in Frankfurt. We stayed for an hour outside Berlin, and as the long leg of my journey increased by nine hours, I broke my basic principle of avoiding the freshness of the train with artificial oak and frustration.
15 -minute subway ride from the station, Hackston The hotel (from 100 euros), last summer, was opened in hopes of becoming a hot location in the Strait Charlotonberg. It looked like a housing pastel was working charming – I spied the musician Devendra Bunnart In breakfast
I made a bike around a beautiful Pranzlaverburg with a friend who remembered the neighborhood when his recent yoga and ceramic studio for years, it was full of war -filled coal squats. I saw the New Wine Bar coming from the window seat in the evening to Nuclear Savi, And found the love of food Satoto, A fantasy Berlin works on the flavors of Sri Lanka.
Berlin is a muscular city, which has epic after -the -aftermath bouquares and Fravonic East Weiss West architecture. In a memorable plaza of 1950, in the cluturfum, I reached one museum to another museum – Mes Van Der Roweh Navi Nationalglary Building, GEMäLDEGALERIIE Of the great masters, the air Museum of Music Equipment Her home -shaped old cinema organ and weekly performances.
Against the amazing scale of Berlin, rivers connected to the city trees and the canals relieved groups of locals: Goth punk, regular punk, barefoot nine hippies and snacks-a citizen is involved in grass, but not a harsh drug and a pilot.
Even despite the rise in fares, the Libertian spirit seemed to be unacceptable.
Copenhagen
From Berlin, about eight hours Journey –
In Copenhagen, the rain fell into hard dirt, yet motorcycle lanes were busy with bicyclists in popsalic parks, through which the children were evacuated. Christnya Cargo boxes. The well-safe city, which has centuries-old apartments brick or bright paint buildings, was clean-so seemingly proportional and well-worked that I was probably the only jewelry in the city.
I went SeptoninAn underground water storage turned into an extraordinary art space, along with its open ponds. In the near darkness, I crossed a gangway wrapped in a piece of voice like Derger by Tarren Simon. Emerging to separate the rain clouds, I made a bike, stopping by the Lord Rosenburg Castle Gardens, then a native favorite of the vintage shops like the Neurobo neighborhood and the Wine Bar Pompet. Even on the smaller roads there were motorcycles.
To take the magnificent high -speed subway Amigar IslandI got out of center for an apprato JosephineA circus colored wine bar, before leaving the new one from the new Hotel Bella GrandeWhere I had previously dropped my luggage-with more Italian inspiration, dementia sofa and space-aged lamps, yet somehow fast and modern and unique coupon and Copenhagen.
Stockholm
Leaving the Casal -like stations of Copenhagen, Train – The birds bound by the marshafs followed the train above the border, which was formed with the Waters of the Orthine.
Scattered but from the windows of a silent train car with uterus, I saw the show passing by: Fellow Red Farm Houses, Cows and Horses’ pastures, shining lakes of lakes. Before I went to the islands of the Baltic Ocean, I saw the rabbit and deer between thin birchs and spirits pines before I headed to the island of Stockholm.
I walked towards Easter Milum for a cinnamon morning bin Stora Badgerate Within the 17th century industrial building that is in Swedish Museum of Performing Arts. In the vicinity of Nebroke, a bay where the boats left for the island, I chose the ferry, an island museum and an jungle island that was once the royal hunting field, visit contemporary art exhibitions and new concrete halls. liljevalchsThen the bridges were walking Modern MosetA wonderful set of 20th century art on neighbor Skipsholman.
Stopped in one evening BrutalWhere I found the artist and owner, Carman Haler, eating on the window table, and a sample of multi -mushrooms. Another night, friend and I took a nest in the corner främmatIn a dimp, comfortable basement in Wasistan, a French -affected natural wine restaurant. “In the Stockholm, we are obsessed with knowing what’s next and what’s cool,” said one of my tablets.
I wanted to live in Sidalm, with his children in the Stockholm Islands of Election Bars, young creations and maternity -based parents’ squads, so I had a room. Hotel Francz (From 140 euros), an ancient innings was built in a designed guest house, which was originally built by tailor in 1647.
Exactly across the street, I took a elevator into a renewed Gonadolin1935 Cocktail Lounge took over 11 stories on the Water Front of the Sterum, with Stockholm Ports and Swedish Grace architecture ideas. Intended to check multiple locations, I met less key friends Bar grapeBut never left – wine, music and easily operated environment made us at the end.
My journey ended at 5 am from Arlanderland Airport: I presented the facilities and Hermetically, Self, left home to go home to get the budget air travel discomfort. Even so, in my flight mode Zombie state, I was dreaming about most of my smooth train Odyssey, about the scenes I saw and briefly about it about the bright cities.
