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RailEuropeUK
Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:42:00 GMT
This means that all international trains linking Thessaloniki with Sofia, Belgrade, Budapest and Istanbul have been cancelled until further notice.
But don’t fret if you still want to make Greece part of your itinerary. It’s easy to reach by taking the train to Venice, Ancona or Bari in Italy and hopping aboard a ferry from there. In fact, stargazing from the deck in the middle of the Med on a balmy summer evening sounds like a welcome addition to anyone’s holiday!
If you’re travelling with an InterRail pass, you’ll only have to pay a small seasonal surcharge to do this in the summer months, and outside July – September all you’ll pay is a small departure tax of €7.
We’ll update you if and when the situation changes.
3 comment(s) so far...
Re: Greece suspends international trains
We just wonder if you are absolutely correct here. We saw the press announcements from OSE (the Greek Railways), but our understanding is that some international services have in fact continued to run. This is rather borne out by Bulgarian media reports yesterday that the Sofia to Thessaloniki trains would not run on Wednesday and Thursday this week - which rather implies that these trains had run or would run on other days.
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By Nicky Gardner and Susanne Kries on
Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:38:07 GMT
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Re: Greece suspends international trains
A shame, and seems very short sighted. Cutting yourself off from the rest of Europe surely isn't the way to aid economic recovery
By Harold on
Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:38:16 GMT
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Re: Greece suspends international trains
Hi Nicky and Susanne - the information we had on this came to us via SNCF. We will check with them to see if they have any further updates.
By Rail Europe on
Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:15:22 GMT
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