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Help finding the posts you're not interested in.
I'll be honest: when I created the first iteration of this blog I went a little mad with tags and categories hoping they'd help me keep things under control, but in fact it's just made things worse as I threw tags around like a madman.
Here's a list of post categories and collections to help you find things you might like.
Categories
These are the parent categories from the original version of this blog:
- Exploring - this category contains the posts where I'm most likely on foot and not actually on a train, although there may be some overlap.
- Window-licking - shudder at terrifyingly dull write-ups of hours spent on trains, most likely with blurry pictures taken through dirty windows.
- Interrail - if a journey is part of an Interrail trip, uses an Interrail pass, or is vaguely Interraily, it'll be in here.
- Planning - these are the really dull posts - if such a thing is possible - which will try your will to live.
- Dining cars - these are the posts where you're likely to find a picture of a finger puppet enjoying food on a train. Life can't get much better.
- Weekends - this category contains shorter trips that get me back for work on a Monday.
Collections
Here are some direct links to the bigger trips:
- 2019 Interrail Extravaganza - The one that started it all! Angoulême to Cluj Napoca and (hastily) back again.
- Ten days in Estonia - Not a rail journey, because I needed to get there quickly.
- Impromptu Benelux Adventure - Worth it just for the station in Antwerp, really.
- Oktoberfest fest - There was beer.
- 2021 Christmas mini-adventure - Cut short due to Covid, but Strasbourg is pretty.
- 2023 Two-month Interrail - Someone had to do it (and this is why).
- 2024 Sparkly-tat tour - Glühwein and festive sparkly-tat! What's not to like?
- 2025 Morocco trip - A trial run to see whether I should migrate south next winter.
Other things
I am a compulsive over-tagger, so if you can't find what you're looking for, use Ghost's awesome search to find places I've been, companies whose trains I've travelled on, or specific types of train (you know who you are).
Examples are: