Hello,I am finding the P&O website impossible to use. I want to cross the Channel on May 21. Directferries gives the time of the only departures available as 06:40 and 8:20, but my date and any other date I enter is labelled Sold out! This is clearly impossible, and so I am willing to arrive to Calais as early as I can by train from Lille, hoping to get a bus there from Calais Ville to the ferry port, or if necessary a taxi.Are there any later ferries? That would help.Is this doable? Thank you for your help,Brian.
I live in France. I have recently spent a lot of time studying the possibility of crossing the country without the use of TGV trains and have made a surprising and truly shocking discovery.The French railway site, SNCF-Connect, as well as the computers in French railway stations, are rigged to avoid offering connections with ter (local) trains. A friendly booking office clerk told me that the SNCF is an enormous tentacular outfit involving many separate companies, and that the booking side is run like a profit-making travel agency. He personally had not even been aware of the bias inherent in the SNCF booking software he uses all day! At my request, he was not able to propose a trip from Valence to Lille in a day without at least one TGV, or even two!The following question in the Forum from a year ago seems to be symptomatic of this situation, and even suggests that the problem extends to the Interrail app:"A lot of trains seem to be blocked. When I click on a train connection in the a
I have spent a lot of time on the Deutsche Bahn* website looking for such a schedule. I came up with the following one: Valence Ville 08:36 Lyon Part Dieu 09:48 dep. Lyon 11:18Paris Bercy 16:25dep. P. Nord .18:28Lille Flandres 20:51 But on checking it now on DB, I can no longer find the 11:18 from Lyon PD for May 22 or 23, when I want to travel. On an arbitrary date such as April 27, however, it is shown. Can someone please explain this?*There is a subtext here, Neiher SNCF-Connect nor the computers in French stations offer such a journey without using TGVs. I will post this problem separately as a Conversation.
Hello, I will be in the UK in June and would like to return to the Continent -- Belgium or Holland, possibly Spain, rather than France, my home country -- by ferry.Is there a list of ferries that offer an Interrail discount, and how much? My Interrail map shows no ferries to Belgium or Spain.Thank you.
Hello,I am having difficulty finding a night train from Milan to Geneva, or Milan to Lyon, that does not involve long waits at a station in the middle of the night or the early hours. For me, this defeats the object of a night train: board it in the evening and wake up at the destination!Thank you for any help or clarification you can bring, Brian.
This is serious. Here is the message I constantly receive when trying to reset my password (either one I choose or one automatically generated by Firefox. My own suggested passwords are judged “weak,” something I believe not to be justified.I attach a screenshot of the message I repeatedly receive.
Hello,I am having trouble getting information on trains from Piraeus to Patras for early October. Is the train-bus combination running normally, and where can I find reliable schedules online? The Man in Seat 61 rightly says that the hellenictrain site is quirky!Thank you, Brian.
Hi, I need to get to SOFIA from France, Italy or Switzerland this autumn. What is the present situation please?Despite my 86 years of age I am willing to go by the long route if necessary. I travel Interrail to avoid flying and have not done so for the past five years.I saw the destruction of the train lines at the historic Belgrade main station a couple of years ago and I was and am shocked.
Does any company run a ferry from Bari to Bar? I want to travel this route in September 2023. Thank you.
I have activated my mobile pass (updated to version 25.0.0) at my travel date (22/8) and entered two days’ travel. The first two days are now shown as “used.” But I cannot open “Show ticket” as clicking on the first day button does not work. Is this normal? Must I wait until 22/8 to be able to show the ticket?
I think the title says it all: this is not the same question as, “Several trips possible instead of continuous with the 2 month pass?” I just want to give each section of a very long journey (France to Georgia and return) a different name.
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