I am sitting again on a German train, this time much more beautiful and comfortable (it’s called ICE) … looks like the Italian FrecciaRossa, with the difference that you do not need a reservation, so it basically works as a regional train but with much more comfort (sounds good right?)!
This means that the ICE train is free for us interrailers, and moreover that it probably doesn’t costs much at all, even if you don’t have an interrail ticket.
I am going to enjoy more than 6 hours of travel, destination Copenhagen . I would like to rest and sleep, but the scenery from the window is calling me like a drug. Being honest, up to now I can not see anything special, but I’m too curious to see how everything will change in front of my eyes: the landscape, the architecture, the colors, from the center of the country, where Berlin is located, up to the north, to the coast, and finally arriving in Denmark … I hope that the train will run because I would like to see all of this with the sunlight, or at least the sunset …. of all the train travels that we are doing, this is the one that excites me the most, the one I expect the most scenic and spectacular views from!
For this reason we decided to travel by day and lose a bit of time, rather than making it during the night (well, also because the bunk coast a lot!).
In a few hours we will be in Denmark … a new city awaits us!
And we’re going to leave behind Germany with its beautiful capital, Berlin…and we’ll spend a couple of days in Copenhagen.
When we got on the train and I took the map picture above, I was wondering how would we have passed the piece of sea that seemes to separate Germany from Denmark. In my ignorance, I tought the best option was the presence of a bridge, you know, something long and huge…I mean, it’s possible, right?
Well guys, do not panic if taking the train and checking the map you can not see the roads linking Germany with Denmark. It’s exactly like that, there is no road nor bridge, but there is nothing to worry about! Your train will embark on a ferry almost without you noticing it…
If you’ve been in Sicily, like my friend who is from there, you will probably be accustomed to such a behavior of trains, but for me it was the first time! I was so excited and I looked like a little girl on her first day of school ;)
The ferry is big and you can get out of the train and have a walk on it. There are restaurants, bars, sitting rooms, and everything you would expect to. Coming from Germany, food and drinks are terribly expensive, tough…! The Denmark coin is not very friendly for us…
After the train comes out of the ferry boat and it starts moving again, everything has changed: you find yourself surrounded by green landscapes with hundreds and hundreds of windmill blades, so many you can’t count them, and it makes the scenery so weird and unnatural, but at the same time it’s such a good thing, you know, completely green energy…I loved to see it!