Category: 2023
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Taking In All Of Bruxelles, Belgium By Train
The Adventure I visited Bruxelles right after my morning in Luxembourg. The train ride was just a few hours, which I took to the end of the line in Bruxelles. I realized later that this was a mistake, as the Central Station in the Belgian capital was a few stops earlier, and closer to where…
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A Visit To See What Luxembourg Is All About
The Adventure My adventure in Luxembourg began early in the morning after arriving at the train station in the middle of the city. Luxembourg was one city in my travels that I especially knew very little about. Signs around the station and city told me that it was a French-speaking area, which was good, because…
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Nighttime In Zürich, Switzerland
The Adventure Zürich is another city I wish I had more time in. Like Milano, I only arrived later in the evening, and didn’t have the time to fully explore the city as much as I would have liked. Arriving later in the day also meant it was darker out, and I couldn’t see everything…
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A Short Visit To Liechtenstein
The Adventure Liechtenstein is a very small country. A lot of you probably haven’t even heard of it. Cramped between Switzerland and Austria, Liechtenstein is a country surrounded by mountains. Its capital is Vaduz, with a population of less than 6,000. The country as a whole has a population of less than 40,000, and is…
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My Quick First Impressions Of Milano, Italy
The Adventure My plan for the 17th had always been to spend it in Switzerland, then go down into Italy on the 18th. Obviously, things did not go as planned. The beauty of travelling with a Eurail pass was that that didn’t matter too much. I arrived in Bern, Switzerland in the morning, but after…
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When Train Delays Led To A Layover In Domodossola, Italy
The Adventure This will be a very short blog, as my time in Domodossola was completely an accident. I was transferring trains on my way to Milano, but due to some sort of transportation error, there was a long layover in Domodossola. I used these couple hours to do a brief walk around the small…
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A Cold Morning In Bern, Switzerland
The Adventure I was planning on spending the day in Switzerland, but my time was cut short by the cold weather and I decided my time would be more pleasantly spent further south. However, I did still manage to spend a bit of time in Bern before I caught the train to Domodossola, Italy. I…
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Exploring The Famous Canals Of Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Adventure At the end of 2023, I decided to take a three-week Christmas trip across Europe. The first stop on this trip was Amsterdam, Netherlands. I’m not sure what drew me to Amsterdam specifically, though I remember my mindset during this trip being to cover as much ground as possible within the limits of…
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Walking All Day To Lund, Sweden
The Adventure Being the cheap man that I am, I decided to walk from where I lived in Malmö, Sweden instead of taking the bus or train all the way to Lund. Public transportation, which would have cost 43,50 SEK for a student, or 58 SEK for an adult (around $5.75-$7.75 CAD), and taken around…
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A Day Trip To Halden, Norway
The Adventure With just one day left on my summer rail pass, and a strong desire to not let it go to waste, I embarked on a day-trip from Malmö, Sweden, to Halden, Norway. This trip was both very short and very long. I woke up early to take the train, but because the journey…
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A Day Trip To Flensburg & Schleswig, Germany
The Adventure Part 1 — Flensburg Having recently arrived in Malmö, Sweden after a few days exploring Iceland, the UK, France and Denmark, I still had a few travel days left on my Eurail pass. To make the most of the money I spent, I chose a few destinations that were far enough to feel…
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I Didn’t Know København, Denmark Would Become One Of My Favourite Cities
The Adventure The last stop in my 2023 summer adventures was in Copenhagen (København), Denmark. After a busy week of travels, we made our first activity taking a nap. Apparently the long train from Paris wasn’t sufficient to get a decent rest, at least not for my first time sleeping on trains. Afterwards, we took…
Matthew C. Schmidt 