I’ve always loved travelling, but train travel was never high on my priority list. When my children were just 4 and 5, we took an unforgettable drive to Turkey and back—riding ski lifts in Austria, tasting Orangina in Belgium, taking an overnight ferry from Italy to Greece, and swimming in Lake Como. Our Sicily trip a couple of years later was just as magical, with hikes to hidden coves, a Mount Etna climb, and the best pizza by the beach.

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That was before I discovered the magic of trains. For the past four years, my family and I have explored Europe by train at every opportunity, loving the feeling of heading off on the Eurostar for another adventure.

We travelled from Istanbul to Devon via three sleeper trains, marvelling at the beauty of Bucharest, getting off at the Turkish border at 3am to have our passports stamped, eating Kürtőskalács (Chimney Cake) in Budapest and delighting the children with a visit to Vienna's Prater theme park. We got off a sleeper train in Lecce (Puglia) and dragged the children straight off for wine tasting, we swam in the Caribbean-like seas on the Salento Coast, we feasted on Ragu in Bologna, we sat in an open-topped carriage on the Bernina Express route in Switzerland astounded at the beauty of the scenery, we climbed the cathedral in Strasbourg for far-reaching views across Germany's Black Forest ... 

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We're always planning our next adventure, but my number one focus is on creating dream trips for other people, so that they, too, can discover the unique thrill of train travel.