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Many moons ago I did the "drunken stumble around europe" thing with a friend. We tried to stick to trains wherever practical, but crossing the alps by rail was
by soneil 5y ago
Many moons ago I did the "drunken stumble around europe" thing with a friend. We tried to stick to trains wherever practical, but crossing the alps by rail was something like 20x the cost of the same trip by budget air.
We keep getting guilted for flying everywhere, but projects like this are needed to make the alternatives practical.
- Ansil849 5y ago> We keep getting guilted for flying everywhere, but projects like this are needed to make the alternatives practical. Projects like this are needed for very specific cases, like this. Not "everywhere", so yes you get guilted for flying everywhere when it is not necessary.
- alex_young 5y agoWith Swiss trains it really pays to plan ahead. IIRC I used to pay ~$20 one way from Lugano to Zurich airport, which took about 2.5 hours. That was some combination of an advance non-cancelable ticket and the residence discount. The equivalent air transport was ~$100 and shaved off maybe 30 minutes once you factored in all of the transfer times etc.