Having arrived in Milan onboard an SBB service from Zurich, I was about halfway through my travels for the day, with two trains left to take before I arrived at my destination for the evening. The first of these was from Milano Centrale to Bologna Centrale with Trenitalia in ‘Business Class’.
Starting Day 3 of (Not Quite) All the Small Things with a visit to the world’s sixth smallest country, Liechtenstein, it was soon time for me to head back into Switzerland and catch a train to Zurich for the next leg of my journey. With my end destination for the day being Rimini on Italy’s Adriatic Coast, I had a few trains ahead of me. First step was to cross the Alps with SBB from Zurich to Milano Centrale.
Day 2 of (Not Quite) All the Small Things had ended in the Swiss town of Sargans in the east of country following rail journeys with DB and SBB. Day 3 was another full day of travel but started a bit differently, with a bus across an international border.
Arriving into Mannheim on a DB Regio ‘RE’ service from Trier, I had just over an hour until my booked ICE service to take me south into Switzerland. With a journey time of just over three hours, I had decided to treat myself on this leg of the trip with a first-class ticket through to Zurich.
Day 1 of (Not Quite) All the Small Things was a success with over 600km travelled by train, 4.5 countries covered (England, France (kind of), Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany) with one of those (Luxembourg) being a ‘new’ country for me to tick of my list. As such day 2 of the trip started in the German city of Trier, close to the Luxembourg border.
The second train of (Not Quite) All the Small Things had brought me across Belgium into my second Benelux country of the trip and my 29th ever, Luxembourg. As with many smaller nations, the country and its capital city share the same common name, although the country is officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, whilst the city is technically Luxembourg City.
