Puppet Aid

This site is principally a source of my own amusement. While other travel bloggers ride the rails with guidebooks and Instagram filters and inspirational hashtags, I travel with a woolly stowaway who insists on front-row seats in the dining car and refuses to stay in my pocket when we pass through tunnels.

Your support ensures that Puppet continues living this lavish, ridiculous lifestyle – sipping lukewarm coffee in a dining car, or gazing mournfully at other people's sandwiches on a TGV – while I deploy the train slippers and lick the windows like an excited spaniel.

Here are some ways you can help a tiny Peruvian finger puppet continue in its noble mission of photo-bombing some of Europe’s most majestic train journeys.

Free stuff!

Sharing costs nothing, and so if there's something you like, share a link to it wherever you spend your online life – or even just tell someone about it if you venture into the real world.

If you're on a train, it's probably best not to tell the person sitting next to you, unless they look as if they could do with some puppet action.

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Buy me a drink.

If I've made you laugh, or if you really enjoy coming along for the ride, please buy me a drink.

One euro could buy a thirsty finger puppet a drink on a train, contribute towards a month's web hosting, or transform a couchette compartment into a mobile puppet paradise. Even the smallest contribution can keep this deluded Peruvian stowaway rolling through Europe, one charmingly sabotaged photo at a time.

So please — give what you can. Think of the puppet. Use the button below.