My first train experience abroad was in Amsterdam in 2018. I bought a ticket at Schiphol, rode into Amsterdam Centraal, and walked confidently toward the exit—until the barriers wouldn't let me through. Turns out, the Netherlands uses a tap-in, tap-out system. A kind...
Morocco surprised me with its extremes: it has Africa's first high-speed train that competes with European rail standards, yet I also took one of the most uncomfortable train journeys of my entire travel life on a regional second-class service. After taking four...
I thought booking a train ticket would be the easy part of traveling through Uzbekistan. I was wrong. Standing at Tashkent Railway Station on September 21st, 2025, watching a modern ticket machine reject my Visa card for the third time, I realized that traveling by...