We planned to travel by train from Kandy to Ella in Sri Lanka. This train journey is reputed to be one of the most beautiful in the world. It didn't turn out quite as planned, but maybe it wasn't so bad after all. We also have some tips for those who want to do the classic train journey from Kandy to Ella.
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Today we will take you to Irkutsk in Siberia, which we visited in the summer of 2006. We continue today to tell you about our journey on the Trans-Mongolian railway that started in Moscow and continued all the way to Beijing. But we are going to tell you about the first stop, the one that happened after about four days on the train.
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We're back from Israel, and since it's Monday, we've got travel news here at FREEDOMtravel. Among other things, we can tell you about cleaning the seas, direct flights to Bilbao and a free train ride. But we are far from finished with our stories from Israel! Tomorrow we'll continue with the stories from our road trip. So, don't miss it!
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At 04:30 on Friday morning, the taxi was waiting for me (Helena) at the marina where we live. Then I had a long working day ahead of me. The journey from Stockholm to Elmia in Jönköping takes about four and a half hours by train and bus and I would be travelling back and forth throughout the day. In addition, I wanted to take part in the programme during the Human Rights Days in Jönköping.
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It's Monday and travel news again. This week we can tell you that children are designing trains for SJ and that Stockholm is 2nd on a list of welcoming cities in the world. We can also tell you that the Travel News Market trade fair is coming up very soon, which we are of course planning to attend.
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This week, we can tell you about an upcoming castle hotel at Legoland, that more entrepreneurs are staying at campsites and that SJ will introduce WiFi in many train carriages that currently lack WiFi. There will also be lists of both the world's hottest cities and the world's most elegant (!) cities.
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Today you will be travelling by train through Switzerland. On Monday morning we started the journey that would take us from Stockholm to Nendaz in southern Switzerland. It was a journey that involved just over two hours by plane, just under three hours by train and then half an hour by bus. Despite a fairly long journey, it didn't feel slow at all. Travelling through Switzerland is absolutely stunningly beautiful!
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A while ago, blogger Towe, with the travel blog Come fly with meto 8 questions about travelling. She had been inspired by SvD, which every Sunday asks these questions to well-known company profiles under the heading "Business Traveller". Now we were also keen to answer! Do you have your own blog? Feel free to join in and answer too! If you don't have a blog, feel free to write your answers in the comments section.
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We're big fans of motorhomes, but there's another way of travelling that we also really like: by train. We tell you why we like travelling by train and recall three different train journeys we've made.
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In 2006, we travelled on the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Beijing, via Mongolia. What a journey! We didn't have a blog at the time, but we have many memories. Every now and then we get questions about the trip, so we thought we'd tell you a bit more about it. After all, it's one of our coolest trips ever!
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