Homegrove First step being a 12 hour boat ride to Stockholm.
You really do live in the cul-de-sac of Europe! That’s a beast of a start and end to a trip 💩 You very much have to have your heart and mind open to the idea of ‘slow travel’ to ditch the planes. The adjustment to the idea of the travelling being part of the holiday / experience is a difficult one. But a good set of noise cancelling headphones and the occasional upgrade can work wonders (The Bose QC45 are de rigueur for just about everyone in the music industry when travelling).
Hoping they go through with plans to reinstate the Trans Europe Express service in the coming years. They’ve had a lot of success in Italy with good HS train services adding to the demise of domestic air travel, I reckon the TEE could do the same for a lot of other European journeys for a good chunk of travellers.
