Thread by @jonworth

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I have an invite to an *actual conference*

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It's in Belgrade! (OMG!)

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How the *hell* do I get there from Berlin by train?

Start with @seatsixtyone Serbia page
seat61.com/Serbia.htm

This doesn't look good...

🇦🇹-🇸🇮 at Jesenice is closed, München-Zagreb 🛏🚅 not running

🇭🇺-🇷🇸 via Subotica still closed for rebuilding

Only way to reach Belgrade by train is the once a day Zagreb-Belgrade InterCity

@seatsixtyone says it departs at 1304 from Zagreb Gl. Kl - but *where is it*?

Not in Deutsche Bahn Reiseauskunft. Not in ÖBB Scotty.

And nowhere to be found on the websites of Croatian Railways HZPP or Serbian Railways Srbija Voz

So what trains departing from Zagreb?

Ah. Vincovci, where is that? Ah, it's the *last station in Zagreb en route to Belgrade*

And then I could buy a ticket... at Zagreb station

Anyone would think they don't actually want to really encourage anyone to take that train!

So how could I do it?

Berlin-München-Innsbrück with ICE and EuroCity, change onto the Zürich-Zagreb night train (that runs via Graz!) in Innsbrück, then day train to Belgrade. Total trip time: about 30 hours

Or go to Budapest and take a bus from there? (6 hours to Belgrade)

Or train to Szeged and hire a car there?

Or ditch the lot and do it on Zoom?

And please don't answer "Just fly" - that's not the point

Even *if* the trains are a mess, the least passengers ought to be able to know is what runs, where, when, and book it online!

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