Some of Europe’s best travel writing books to read on your Eurail trip

Good travel writing makes for the ideal travelling companion. Its kaleidoscopic blend of history, politics, and personal experience creates a truly interdisciplinary, and, in my opinion, highly rewarding, genre. Here is a selection of Europe’s best: Border, Kapka Kassabova Border concerns the author’s journey around the border territory between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. It explores…

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Europe’s Top 5 Most Beautiful Train Stations

Railway stations are often easy to ignore. They are understandably considered both as gateways to more exciting destinations and as spots for unavoidable layovers. And yet… Europe has some of the world’s best train stations, interesting in their own right for their history, architecture and, sometimes, for the views they offer. When you next find…

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