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Train Journey to Venice
We departed Budapest at 8.20am this morning on a 15 hour, 4 train, 3 country train journey to start the Italian part of our holiday.
The journey today takes us from Budapest to Vienna, change trains to Innsbruck, change again to Verona and then the final change on to Venice.
The PKP Intercity Train was functional but not overly clean. Hopefully the next few trains are better. Still way more comfort and space than flying.
Our next train, Railjet 862 from Vienna to Innsbruck is a far nicer train, clean and modern. The train left on time and we look forward to a comfortable journey.
We arrived on time into the picturesque city of Innsbruck. From the station platform there were snow covered mountains in all directions. We only had a short transfer time.
We the boarded EuroCity 83 from Innsbruck to Verona. We should have had some inkling that all was not well when we sat at the station for longer than we would have expected finally departing some 10 minutes late. The train is clean and presentable and in between the standard of our first and second train.
The journey went through the alps and was very scenic. The pictures do not do the landscape justice. These are in a separate album.
When we arrived into Brenner it appeared to be a normal stop but after a while it was obvious that the train had a problem. With only one announcement and that was only in Austrian and Italian we were unsure how long we would be waiting. We finally got moving after about 40 minutes. What effect this will have on our next connection is unknown.
Turns out remained forty minutes late into Verona. This meant we missed our booked connection but thankfully there was another service 30 minutes later. We boarded the final train around 10.10pm for the journey to Venice from Verona.
The train arrived in Venice around 11.30pm. We disembarked and walked to the hotel where we arrived around midnight. The end of a long day.
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