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How do you get home for Christmas from Tbilisi, Georgia? By train of course! (and the odd bus and ferry thrown in). Recommend that you follow @timcyclesthecoast.bsky.social for epic adventures and flight-free travels! 🚄⛴️🚲

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Made a friend on the train! 🐕❤️

submitted 45 days ago • 6 comments

Happy New Year to one and all. Have an enjoyable evening whatever you're doing, and here's to 2025. Hope it proves to be an excellent vintage! 🥂❤️

submitted 55 days ago • 13 comments

Reflecting on what has been a pretty crazy year. As well as the Georgia trip for work, I also was very fortunate to spend the summer cycling round Morocco. My ride started and finished in Tangier, and took in the Atlas mountains, the Sahara Desert, and the Atlantic coast amongst many other places 🇲🇦❤️

submitted 59 days ago • 9 comments

Three years ago my Christmas plans fell through, so I booked a Christmas Eve train up to Pitlochry, and went cycling and camping in the Cairngorms. It was a challenging few days, with temperatures of -8°C, and that was in the daytime! I rather enjoyed myself though, in a weird, masochistic way.

submitted 60 days ago • 5 comments

Home alone this Christmas. It's been a nice, relaxing day. A walk first thing, then a bit of telly & a read of my new book. Dinner was roasted veg & a chicken Kyiv out of the freezer. Next up, an early night! Solidarity with those of you also flying solo. Hope you've had a good day.

submitted 61 days ago • 10 comments

Home! 👍🍺

submitted 67 days ago • 7 comments

Last night on the road. It's been an epic journey, but now I am quite weary. Quite looking forward to sleeping in a stationary bed! I do love the Hook of Holland to Harwich ferry though. It's been the start or finish point of many brilliant cycling adventures. Nice way to end.

submitted 68 days ago • 7 comments

Quiz question. Am I in? A. Rotterdam B. Liverpool C. Anywhere D. Rome

submitted 68 days ago • 17 comments

Another seamless sleeper train journey. Incredible that I've got from Tbilisi to Berlin with everything running on time! Now waiting for my connection to Amsterdam, then the Hook of Holland ferry, and home tomorrow lunchtime. Berlin Central station is pretty impressive.

submitted 68 days ago • 4 comments

I'm in Vienna. This means nothing to me.

submitted 69 days ago • 5 comments

Soup in a loaf and chicken paprikash for lunch. That's it for Hungary! Now a couple of hours on the train to Vienna, to pick up the sleeper to Berlin.

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

A boat trip on the Danube. A nice break from all the walking!

submitted 69 days ago • 3 comments

My compartment on the 1758 sleeper train from Bucharest to Budapest. It was made up as a double, but nobody else turned up, which is always a bonus. Now about an hour from the Hungarian capital, got the day to mooch about before a 5pm connection to Vienna, to pick up the Berlin-bound sleeper.

submitted 69 days ago • 8 comments

The Presidential Palace in Bucharest. The scale of the place is staggering. Construction started under the Ceaușescu regime in 1983. 20,000 workers and 700 architects and engineers laboured round the clock at a cost of $2bn. Meanwhile the Romanian people were starving.

submitted 70 days ago • 3 comments

Cărturești Carusel in Bucharest. I've got serious bookshop envy!

submitted 70 days ago • 3 comments

I couldn't make Sofia to Bucharest work on the train, so had to get an overnight bus. No bother, except I barely slept, so I'm tired today. Also, unlike the train which arrives at a civilised time, the bus spits you out into the city at 5.30am when it's -3°C and everywhere is shut!

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Despite the weather, I rather enjoyed my wander round Sofia. It sure does have some handsome buildings, plus the centre is quite compact- handy for an old man with dodgy knees!

submitted 71 days ago • 5 comments