Win a copy of Platform Europe + an Interrail Pass! (closed)

The trip i wish to take next is to go surfing in northern France, probably in Wissant, then travel to Amsterdam in the Netherlands and drink lots of coffee and do a tour on the canals. Then i‘ll travel further north to Copenhagen where i want to to ride a lot of bike and visit museums. And might go to the beach. Afterwards i‘ll travel back to Germany.

So many that I am having difficulty deciding. I think I'm going to have to go with the Bernina route done on local trains. I've done it in the late winter, stunning snow scapes everywhere, not monochrome because of the bright blue sky. I've also done it in the spring, still snow at altitude but meadows full of spring flowers. Nice warm trains that run on time with polite friendly staff, as well 

I wish to travel from Mannheim to Marseille. There’s one direct train and I imagine it a beautiful route!

Working our way along the Rhine from Basle to Amsterdam over about 12 days on a mix of slow trains, boats and one fast train.

We’re celebrating the release of Platform Europe, the latest book written by our longtime friend Bart Giepmans. Bart is an author, travel journalist, photographer and a passionate advocate for exploring Europe by train.

He is a true champion of slow travel and spends much of the year discovering Europe by rail, embracing historic stations, meaningful encounters and the stories found along the tracks. He wrote and photographed most of the journeys featured in Platform Europe!

😍Win a copy of Bart’s beautiful book AND a FREE Interrail Global Pass (7 days in 1 month)!

Participation is open to all persons 16+ living in Europe. The giveaway ends on 28 April 2026 at 12 pm CET. Five winners will be randomly selected and contacted via the community DM on 28 April 2026. The winners will receive 1x Interrail Global Pass for 7 travel days within 1 month (2nd class) and 1x Platform Europe book. The book will be shipped free of charge.

📄 Read the full Terms & Conditions, here.

How to enter the giveaway

Whether you are an experienced rail traveller or still dreaming about your first trip:

💬 Tell us your favourite slow travel train route – or the train journey that's next on your wishlist – and why.

Share your answer in the comments below to enter the giveaway👇

My favorite route is the one from Belgrade, Serbia, to Bar, Montenegro. Stunning mountain views at sunrise! :D

And the journey on my wishlist is the route from Istanbul to Eastern Turkey. 

We’re celebrating the release of Platform Europe, the latest book written by our longtime friend Bart Giepmans. Bart is an author, travel journalist, photographer and a passionate advocate for exploring Europe by train.

He is a true champion of slow travel and spends much of the year discovering Europe by rail, embracing historic stations, meaningful encounters and the stories found along the tracks. He wrote and photographed most of the journeys featured in Platform Europe!

😍Win a copy of Bart’s beautiful book AND a FREE Interrail Global Pass (7 days in 1 month)!

Participation is open to all persons 16+ living in Europe. The giveaway ends on 28 April 2026 at 12 pm CET. Five winners will be randomly selected and contacted via the community DM on 28 April 2026. The winners will receive 1x Interrail Global Pass for 7 travel days within 1 month (2nd class) and 1x Platform Europe book. The book will be shipped free of charge.

📄 Read the full Terms & Conditions, here.

How to enter the giveaway

Whether you are an experienced rail traveller or still dreaming about your first trip:

💬 Tell us your favourite slow travel train route – or the train journey that's next on your wishlist – and why.

Share your answer in the comments below to enter the giveaway👇

I am new to Interrail - at the tender age of 62! However, I travelled widely around Europe and worldwide by other means in my younger days. I couldn't tell you my favourite route as I have only travelled Interrail for the first time this year. If I win, I will use the book to inform and inspire me for my next adventure!

The best route so far was the super long, slow night-train ride from Budapest to Bucharest! Those wonderful landscapes in Romania combined with the most besutiful sunrise I‘ve ever seen! That was brilliant! ☀️

All over Switzerland as it should be marvelous. 

There are so many secondary lines in the Alps and middle- and south-eastern Europe worth to discover. But also in the italian Apennine as well as in north-western and south-eastern Spain you may ride gorgeous lines and discover amazing cities.

Some lesser known suggestions: The lines in the Jura region of Switzerland and France, the Linares-Almeria line in Spain, the Liberec-Tanvald-Jelenia Gora - line from Czech Republic to Poland or the slow long-distance line across the Carpathian mountains in Romania from Cluj-Napoca to Suceava and further on to Iasi. 

My favorite trip so far has been the one along the French coast, around Nice, Cannes, Antibes. We had a wonderful vacation there. I would love any new route, a slow train ride in Northern Italy would be very nice.

We’re celebrating the release of Platform Europe, the latest book written by our longtime friend Bart Giepmans. Bart is an author, travel journalist, photographer and a passionate advocate for exploring Europe by train.

He is a true champion of slow travel and spends much of the year discovering Europe by rail, embracing historic stations, meaningful encounters and the stories found along the tracks. He wrote and photographed most of the journeys featured in Platform Europe!

😍Win a copy of Bart’s beautiful book AND a FREE Interrail Global Pass (7 days in 1 month)!

Participation is open to all persons 16+ living in Europe. The giveaway ends on 28 April 2026 at 12 pm CET. Five winners will be randomly selected and contacted via the community DM on 28 April 2026. The winners will receive 1x Interrail Global Pass for 7 travel days within 1 month (2nd class) and 1x Platform Europe book. The book will be shipped free of charge.

📄 Read the full Terms & Conditions, here.

How to enter the giveaway

Whether you are an experienced rail traveller or still dreaming about your first trip:

💬 Tell us your favourite slow travel train route – or the train journey that's next on your wishlist – and why.

Share your answer in the comments below to enter the giveaway👇

We’re celebrating the release of Platform Europe, the latest book written by our longtime friend Bart Giepmans. Bart is an author, travel journalist, photographer and a passionate advocate for exploring Europe by train.

He is a true champion of slow travel and spends much of the year discovering Europe by rail, embracing historic stations, meaningful encounters and the stories found along the tracks. He wrote and photographed most of the journeys featured in Platform Europe!

😍Win a copy of Bart’s beautiful book AND a FREE Interrail Global Pass (7 days in 1 month)!

Participation is open to all persons 16+ living in Europe. The giveaway ends on 28 April 2026 at 12 pm CET. Five winners will be randomly selected and contacted via the community DM on 28 April 2026. The winners will receive 1x Interrail Global Pass for 7 travel days within 1 month (2nd class) and 1x Platform Europe book. The book will be shipped free of charge.

📄 Read the full Terms & Conditions, here.

How to enter the giveaway

Whether you are an experienced rail traveller or still dreaming about your first trip:

💬 Tell us your favourite slow travel train route – or the train journey that's next on your wishlist – and why.

Share your answer in the comments below to enter the giveaway👇

I've always wanted to go on a sleeper train from London to Scotland, I feel as though the sights would be absolutely spectacular!

Last year I had the good fortune of having my mother come visit me in the UK from South Africa over Christmas.  She stayed for a month and we went on several adventures together during that time.  The biggest one was from the 27th of December until the 2nd of January.  I managed to get us a great deal on a couple of Interrail passes and it was all so easy to plan and use, I was absolutely gobsmacked!  We caught a coach and ferry over from London to Bruges, stayed over one night and then proceeded across Europe by train (Bruges to Luxembourg City to Strasbourg to Chur), staying one night in each city and exploring as much as we possibly could in the short time we had and then, on New Years Eve we made the trip through the Alps, via the Bernina Pass (on the regional train, not the Bernina Express) from Chur, Switzerland to Tirano, Italy and then on to Milan.  We arrived there quite late and spent New Years Day there before catching trains all the way back to London (via Zurich to Paris for the Eurostar).  The scenery travelling through all those places, the people we met on the way and the memories my mom and I made on that trip will last my whole life long.  Slow travel is the best!  

I'd love to go on a sleeper train across the UK and through Scotland, the sights would be incredible, so much greenery and all those lakes and mountains, especially the Cairngorms!! While a much faster way to travel, I've also never taken the eurosstar so feel that would be great :)

I would love to take the train to join Sicily from Milano, this destination seems so interesting!
For now my best train experience was the one between Copenhagen and Hamburg

My favourite train route was on a sicilian coast

Would love to try a sleeper to Sicily! 

From Istanbul to Kars, slow, diverse and magical !

Köln to Mannheim with S-Bahns and RE’s, because it was the beginning of my Erasmus journey and it was beautiful.

My favourite journeys are from Lisboa to Porto and from Podgorica to Beograd. Next I would like to travel from Stockholm to Narvik. 

I am planning to go to COP31, which is being hosted by Turkey in Antalya in November 2026. I intend to travel by train from Switzerland until at least Sofia and then by bus if trains are not available. This would be the trip of my dreams, combining my personal and profesionnal interested with a memorable travel.

My favourite train travel so far was crossing the beautiful Italy from Switzerland to Sicily, the best way to experience the 'dolce vita' vibe right away in my opinion. Or travelling through Finnish and Swedish Lapland, for the stunning landscapes (special shout-out to the seats facing the window in Finland). The saying 'It's not the destination, it's the journey' was definitely made for train travel.

My favourite train is the slow one from Santander to Llanes.

I must admit I do not have a lot of international train experiences yet. But I loved travelling from the Netherlands to Prague by train in 2023. I am still dreaming of visiting Italy by train.

Hello dear train travelling lovers

Well, my favourite slow travel train route is Ajaccio-Calvi in Corsica, country of my childhood.
 

Then, the next of my wishlist is the one that gives time once more to write poems while gazing beautiful landscapes and that will carry me away to find my love again…

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Traveling from Sweden to France passing Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium. I wish to travel even further south to Spain and Italy viewing the different landscapes as they change over time.

My favourite route was from Warsaw to Budapest and then from Budapest to Ljubljana to change for another train to Lake Bled. From Lake Bled we went to Prague and via Germany we went back to Poland by train.

It was the best route to admire different landscapes. It gave us opportunity to spend time in different places, some close to nature, others in the city center. I did this route during flooding in 2023 - we needed to adapt our plans to run away from the flood. I was traveling with my boyfriend and even though we had a lot of stress due to the flooding, it was the best journey we have ever had. In trains, the journey was only important; we could appreciate that we were safe heading to a new location. We visited amazing places and met amazing people. I would totally recommend this route to everybody who would like to spend a bit of time in cities and much more in nature and learn about new cultures and people everyday life in different countries. 

Interail gives you opportunity to get on, get off whenever you want. You can adapt the route as you wish, but I totally recommend my route, even though it wasn’t my plan A journey. Flooding made it a bit stressful but also I enjoyed it even more. Interail was so flexible and gave many opportunities.