Europe by Train

As I plan more travel for 2023, the train is looking more and more comfortable. It’s not cheaper yet but sometimes with Eurostar, an interail ticket is cheaper than Eurostar’s prices, particularly if I want to travel on. Here are some notes and links. …

1. Inter Rail’s pass prices, they are offering €221 for a 4 day pass 15 Oct 2022.
2. How to get cheaper tickets on the Eurostar, also their home page, Eurostar, and how to reserve a seat on Eurostar for an inter rail ticket, by Eurostar, and by the man in seat 61. Reserving a seat requires paying a fee, which the man in seat 61, reports as £30, each way! And the seats are limited. FFS 😵
3. Deutsche Bahn have a web site and an android app, called DB Navigator and probably an iphone version too. I found logging in to the app to be a bit odd and found this thread, which implies that you need to set the cookies using a web browser but the android implementation of chrome doesn’t work. I have fixed this by using Firefox to login to the site, and then the app works. Very Odd. Now, how to complain to DB. Or stick with the web interface.
4. How to reserve seats in the rest of Europe.

Hints on getting them cheaper

1. https://secretsofparis.com/practical/getting-around/cheaper-eurostar-tickets/ recommends getting tickers from Parisian suburban stations,and also looking at,  sites such as Trainline (a third-party seller which isn’t cheaper but sometimes more convenient when booking multiple train trips) and SNCF Connect (formerly OUI.sncf, this is a subsidiary of the French train network SNCF and sells tickets on the Eurostar, Thalys, and Deutsche Bahn), or Rail Europe.
2. There are other search sites, which I may add later.