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Day 8 – over the Alps and down into Italy

Salzburg – Innsbruck – Verona

Day 7 – Heading into the Austrian mountains

Vienna – Bruck an der Mur – Leoben – Stainach Irdning – Attnang Puchheim – Salzburg

Day 6 – Berlin to Vienna on the high speed ICE train

Berlin – Nuernberg – Wien (Vienna)

Day 5 – Berlin, visit to the East Side Gallery and a special evening

One of the things I love about this city is that it confronts it’s difficult history head on.

Day 4 – Wernigerode – Berlin, and a look at the Reichstag

Wernigerode – Magdeburg – Rosslau – Berlin

Day 3 – Harzer Schmalspurbahnen

Wernigerode – Brocken – Wernigerode
OK that’s a real mouthful. HSB is better known to English speakers as the Harz railway, a network of narrow gauge railways, of which the line to the summit of the Brocken is the most dramatic.

Day 2 – Wuppertal and the legendary suspended railway

Antwerp – Breda – Eindhoven – Venlo – Breyell – Wuppertal – Hannover – Goslar – Wernigerode.
Seven trains, a rail replacement bus, and three trips on the Schwebebahn. This was an epic day with a bucket list item well and truly ticked off.