Here’s a recap of my train journey based on the Twitter thread I kept posting as I travelled.
The departure from Bratislava was as planned:
Half an hour in Vienna was just enough for me to grab some coffee and breakfast and board the train to Frankfurt without a hurry:
I’ve always loved train journeys, but with flygskam changing people’s travel preferences across Europe (and possibly worldwide, though probably not that much), I decided to take train to FOSDEM this time.
When I first went to FOSDEM which, just in case you don’t know, happens each February in Brussels at ULB, I flew with Ryanair from Bratislava to Charleroi because it was cheaper. After repeating the same journey a couple of times and I once nearly missed the last bus coach to Brussels because of a late flight, and decided to rather pay more but travel with more comfort to Brussels Zaventem, the main airport of Brussels. It’s well-connected with Brussels, trains run fast and run often, which is a significant upgrade in comparison to Charleroi, where the options were limited to bus coaches and a slow train connection from Charleroi the town.