"Either way, flying is going to be cheaper, unfortunately." This is the tragedy of rail in Europe. It's simply unaffordable. Myself and all my friends would happily take trains to Paris, Amsterdam, London, Vienna, Budapest – pretty much anywhere on the continent – if it didn't cost 5x as much as a flight. I just checked the price of a sleeper train from Berlin to Brussels, a route I fly sometimes and take a train others, and it came to 209 euros. That's for a 15-hour journey in a dorm with six people and no possibility to cancel or change your booking. It's incomprehensible that travellers are priced into flying.
"Either way, flying is going to be cheaper, unfortunately." This is the tragedy of rail in Europe. It's simply unaffordable. Myself and all my friends would happily take trains to Paris, Amsterdam, London, Vienna, Budapest – pretty much anywhere on the continent – if it didn't cost 5x as much as a flight. I just checked the price of a sleeper train from Berlin to Brussels, a route I fly sometimes and take a train others, and it came to 209 euros. That's for a 15-hour journey in a dorm with six people and no possibility to cancel or change your booking. It's incomprehensible that travellers are priced into flying.
The problem is that flying is de facto subsidized:
https://www.euractiv.com/section/aviation/news/why-we-are-far-from-imposing-a-tax-on-kerosene/
Hey what’s this bashing of F-Kreuzberg, how about trash per capita? :)
Jokes aside, you’re right, parts it’s education. I have seen some “Jungs” yesterday and one just dropped his empty chocolate paper on the floor.