MONTHLY CHALLENGE

Never Get Off the Trails in Slovenia

A story of train travel and a creepy train station.

Bryan Dijkhuizen
Globetrotters
Published in
6 min readMay 5, 2024

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Image by Author: Bryan Dijkhuizen

After finishing our trip to Switzerland last August, where we hiked down from the Eiger and visited the Matterhorn in Zermatt, we planned another trip for the winter.

Just like on all of our trips, we prefer taking the train over any other transportation type. It’s relaxing to hop on a train and sit until you reach your destination. Sometimes it’s an hour, but we’ve had our trips where we’ve been sitting on trains for more than 10 hours.

I have always been curious about Prague and after my sister won a free Interrail Ticket from DiscoverEU, we decided to go. We booked some of the best hotels and I bought myself a ticket too.

We would visit: Prague, Graz, Ljubljana, and München.

Our trip kicked off in Deventer, the city she lives in, and from there, we caught the direct Intercity train to Berlin.

Image by Author: Bryan Dijkhuizen + sister Sanne Dijkhuizen

These trains are operated by the German Railways or Deutsche Bahn (DB), and they have caused us a lot of trouble in the past. (See my story where we had

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Bryan Dijkhuizen
Globetrotters

Writing about the life of a neurodivergent creative in a neurotypical world. — https://bryandijkh.substack.com/