I started this trip in Berlin, Germany and instead of flying straight to Venice, Italy, I decided to take trains all the way there. I traveled about 1,000 kilometers through Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein — moving through everything in between, before getting to Italy.
What surprised me most is how different Europe feels when you don’t skip over it. Instead of sudden changes, everything slowly transforms. This is part 1 of the journey to Venice — and by the time I arrived, I had taken 12 different trains.
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00:00 Train from Germany to Italy
01:00 Chemnitz
02:17 Train travel in Germany
03:14 Nuremburg (Nürnberg)
04:41 Lindau (Lake Constance/Bodensee)
06:22 Train to Austria
06:56 Feldkirch, Austria
09:16 Liechtenstein
15:21 Switzerland
15:55 Epic alpine train
16:28 Arriving to Innsbruck, Austria
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26 Comments
When planning this trip, I thought taking 12 trains across Europe would feel chaotic… it turned out different than expected.
Would you ever do a trip like this instead of flying? 👇
Thank you for this Video. I live in Germany and I never made a trip like this.
But now i want to check it out. So nice places you showed me.
I can learn a lot of this way to travel.
I live in the southern of Germany. It would bei easy for me to do it.
I travelled to the States but i never visited Liechtenstein 😃
Good david
Wow, great show.
Love this video, David, you got some good deals. Chemnitz looked interesting in particular. ❤
Yes, flying is fast, but you get spat out at the destination. For me, the journey to the holiday destination is just as important, whether by car, train, bicycle, or on foot.
I enjoy cycling for several days; you can enjoy the route and also stop spontaneously to discover something. You discover things or people, unplanned and spontaneously.
Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich are interesting cities, but Germany is really about the many places in between.
Many of them are cities and places steeped in history.
gruss aus nürnberg
Most Europeans my age (I'm a Gen X) did an Interrail tour across Europe at least once in their lives. It's eye-opening, and the ease with which we can compare the culture we grew up in with other cultures is one of the reasons why, on average, Europeans are more open-minded than Americans.
Liechtenstein is an absolute monarchy, there's a parliament etc. but ultimately the prince has absolute authority and can do whatever he wants. Worst of all, the people gave him that power in a referendum. I get keeping a monarch around as a mascot but actual power? Come on.
1:15 😂
The rail network in Europe lets you ride from Inverness in Scotland all the way to Sofia in Bulgaria with a few changes of trains. Flying is simply too cheap.
The towns on the shores of Lake Constance (Bodensee) have no big industries but a lot of tourism. Hence their nice appearance.
Notice that crossing from Lindau to Bregenz, for instance, is normal within the Schengen group of nations. Why should you see any difference? BTW the official currency in Liechtenstein is Swiss Francs.
Only US tourists would want to visit Vaduz. We Swiss don't give a s….t about it. We have nice places…
T O P !
Many Europeans get very mad when Americans say they've been to Europe. Americans just dont get that each country and each region within countries is different.
Europe has over 2000 years to develop. For most of that time there was no mass travel or mass communication so every small region developed there own identity.
The USA has only been around as a nation for 250 and for alot of that time we've had mass communication and transport. Hence it developed a more coherent unit
0:46 fun fact, these units (stadler KISS) are already sold to ÖBB, DB does no longer operate them. so you were lucky to ride them as DB intercity. oh, and intercity is not regional 😉
Wirklich interessante Einblicke in unser sehr vielseitiges Europa.
travelling europe and eating crap at mcdonalds?!
15:27 Knowing Switzerland, this bunker is probably still in use
Lichtenstein is a tax paradise for those who want to avoid tax in their home countries, wich explaines why it´s so expensive. Lots of rich people. The same goes for the Channel islands, Isle of Man and some other small enclaves. Monaco has no taxes at all for its citizens.
You did not cross Europe, only a small part of it. I did longer bicycle trips in Europe than this. Tbh my hindquarters still hurt a week after.
Subtitles were funny though. They made the Rhine into "the Ryan river" at 15:00 .
The Bunker you saw at the end is a "Schindler Bunker", named after the architect Gottfried Schindler. His company was also tasked to design the bunkers for the swiss parliament/government.
Funny as one knowing who lives in the region, to see you asking to enter the privat castle and place of living of the ruler of Lichtenstein 😀
Then: Bunkers at the border of Switzerland are common… relict of the cold war.
Guarda amico, è Remember, l'Europa almeno occidentale è stata fondata dalla civiltà greco romana. Le arterie stradali, le piazze, le città sono state costruite da Roma o imitando I modelli romani ellenistici. La religione cristiana ha origine dall'impero romano, (cattolicesimo, ortodossia e protestante simo). Il sistema numerico, il calendario, la maggior parte della scrittura, le leggi scritte, l'organizzazione statale vengono da li. I concetti di bene pubblico, di repubblica, di democrazia.
Punto secondo:arrivo dei popoli germanici con distruzione (ponti, strade, acquedotti, ingegneria meccanica, medicina, sistemi idrici, biblioteche) di tutto ciò che OGGI CONSIDERIAMO SEGNO DI CIVILTÀ. conseguente mancanza di di igiene, pestilenze, cure mediche obsolete, mancanza di sicurezza per le strade, mancanza di istruzione, costruzione di castelli spesso freddi, arroccato su colline per difendersi da tutti. Mancanza di ordine e di legge. Un certo ordine è arrivato con Carlo magno dopo secoli di regressione culturale e poi dell'Umanesimo e del rinascimento. Devo dire con onesta che gli unici europei meno toccati da queste vicende storiche sono stati i popoli scandinavi, I vichinghi. I sassoni e altri popoli germanici hanno portato guerra, arretratezza, disordine dove sono arrivati. Non sono cambiati. Gli inglesi purtroppo sono fortemente imparentati con questi popoli e… A mio avviso hanno sparso disordini e guerre, colonizzazione, sfruttamento e razzismo in tutto il globo. Le scoperte importanti che gli dobbiamo veramente sono la rivoluzione industriale. La stampa (tedesca). La cultura USA, amico, purtroppo deriva da li:loro credevano di essere gli eredi degli antichi, ma non è così, gli antichi avevano eserciti memorabili, ma ciò che li ha resi immortali sono state le fondazioni delle città, le biblioteche, l'organizzazione statale, le invenzioni, arrivavano, a volte distruggeva, molte volte si integravano, non erano razzisti, RICOSTRUIVANO con tecniche avanti di secoli rispetto ai paesi inglobati. Sfruttavano ma creavano anche ricchezze nei paesi, commercio. L'Europa che attraversi è questo amico.
Careful when calling Nuremberg "Bavaria". Us Franconians have a very strong regional identity.
Karl Marx ! Please spell the "x". Could not be to much to spell it correct, right? Thx.