Overseas travel plans

Two of the most beautiful cities, mixing Swiss efficiency with relaxed, Italian charm.

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Can also do (long) day trips to Aosta and Mont Blanc

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So Mrs. Zygotic has agreed to my idea of spending a week travelling the ā€˜Belgian Triangle’ of Brussels, Antwerp, Bruges and Ghent by train. What a wonderful woman she is. Can’t wait. Haven’t been on Eurostar in yeeears!

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bugger - we missed out on the deal because I couldn’t buy a ticket with my passport number, and my passport was off being renewed

New, more relaxed and less ambitious plan (spending most of the time in Lucerne):

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Flying to Paris in mid-May, first flight in nearly ten years and of course it’s hit just as there’s an oil crisis :grimacing:

Would anyone care to make me feel less anxious about my flights being cancelled somehow? Already eyeing up some eyewateringly expensive (but fully refundable) Eurostar Premier tickets…

Last I heard is the UK is buying jet fuel off the US (otherwise we would be running out by may)

Also standard Eurostar tickets are non refundable but transferable without a fee (but plus any price difference in new ticket), idk if that’s an option

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Lucerne…..nice.

If you get a chance you must go on a river boat cruise. Stunning region.

Scratch this plan. You see how it goes through the Alps? Turns it does exactly that - the worlds longest rail tunnel apparently. If we want a holiday seeing the mountains, this isn’t the way to do it.

Look’s like Chur’s back on the menu.

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Really can’t be arsed with this EES stuff maaaaan

Looking at interrail map/journeys, looks like would be fairly easy to do a similar route avoiding the tunnel. There’s a regional train from Zug to Bellinzona (which connects to Milan) that doesn’t go through it. Probably cheaper to as won’t need to book seats

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This is the plan now that the 15% offer has finished, that we figure out a route using the interrail site, but look to see if it’s cheaper to book individual tickets

Meant to add I would go to Chur though is a lovely small city. Train from there to Arosa was probably one of my favourite trips too.

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