I’m used to travelling to Brussels and Paris on Eurostar so it seemed the obvious way to travel down to the south of France too. I hadn’t realised that the direct service to Marseille operated fairly regularly throughout the year. There is something romantic about the thought of boarding a train in London and stepping off in the Mediterranean. It’s not bad for a 6.5 hour train ride; that’s less than the 7 hours it takes to get to Aberdeen. Brussels, Paris and the Med! On the

In a previous post, I covered the difficulty of booking a rail journey down to Switzerland, struggling with the lack of through ticketing. The journey involved undertaking six different legs for which there was no consistent passenger proposition: London to Paris  –  Eurostar Transfer across Paris  –  RER Paris to Lausanne  –  TGV Lyria Lausanne to Martigny  –  Swiss Intercity Martigny to Le Châble  –  St Bernard Express Le Châble to Verbier –  the bus For a Londoner, Eurosta

Short haul European flights are often affected by weather in the winter months. On a recent trip, it was essential to arrive in the Swiss Alps on time; therefore, this seemed like the perfect opportunity to experience making the journey by rail and see how easy it is to travel beyond the core high speed network that Eurostar connects to. My journey took me from London to the Swiss town of Verbier. It turns out that it’s not as easy as you may think to arrange, unless you have