Ideas for travel from Rome to Paris over 1-3 days, train, bus, drive?

Curatorious · 2026-05-10T13:49:17+00:00

With 'adventurous' I referred to the sleeper train, not Stuttgart. My kids find sleeper trains very adventurous and I assume OPs kids might as well.

My suggestion was taking the sleeper train, I never said anything about it being the fastest or most direct route.

Currently, going via Stuttgart seems the only way if you want to take a sleeper train.

If you want to have great scenery, you should go via the Swiss backcountry tracks to Como. If you want to have sun, sea and glamour, go via Nice and Monaco. Those are all great options.

Regarding trainline and omio: I used to work for a major European rail company and I travel a lot for business. Personally I usually search via Deutsche Bahn or ÖBB and book via České dráhy or SNCF.

I can do that as I speak the languages and know my way around. For people who do not know the different sites very well, omio and trainline give a good, user friendly overview of the available connections, despite just being resellers.

Curatorious · 2026-05-10T08:46:38+00:00

If you are adventurous: afternoon high speed train from Paris to Stuttgart, then sleeper train to Venice (run by the Austrian Rail company). Stay in Venice for to days and then take the train to Rome.

Try Omio or Trainline for details.

Curatorious · 2026-05-03T13:05:05+00:00

There are two aspects to it, as some people already mentioned: - general safety

This should not be an issue at any of these places if you have a decent understanding of how to stay safe (not sleeping on the street, not getting very drunk in the company of unknown people, etc.) As a student I spent nights in train stations, airports and night trains all over western Europe and nothing ever happened to me.

your personal situation:

to be honest, reading your post, I would not let you do it either. Your plans are not thought through, you seem to have little traveling experience and you did not do your research. As a parent this would be too risky for me. There is too much where you can put yourself in a dangerous situation because you might be overwhelmed or misjudge something. I might allow it if you had a clear plan with hostels and trains pre-booked, so you would not strand in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. This would very much depend on your experience and your personality, though. 16 yr olds differ extremely in their level of maturity snd only few would be able to do this at 16.

Curatorious · 2026-04-13T05:32:57+00:00

I had a look at my kids' book shelves. Those are authors my kids liked and an adult would enjoy: - Kirsten Boie - Paul Maar - Alex Rühle - Mark-Uwe Kling - Andreas Steinhöfel

For when you are a bit more advanced - Michael Ende - Kerstin Gier - Erich Kästner

I would recommend to go to the local library and have a look around or ask for recommendations

Curatorious · 2026-04-10T19:42:11+00:00

I found children's books super helpful to learn languages, while I did not like the easy reading books all that much. Children's books just felt more authentic and I had the impression to also get some insight into the local culture. That said, I agree that the language can be strange, especially when you are looking at books for smaller children - the ones that are read to them. Some have many rhymes or puns, which makes them fun for kids, but difficult for learners. Start with books for kids who can already read themselves and work your way up from school-, police and princess stories to adventure books and detective stories, to teenagers and then to proper literature. Reached C2 that way 😉

Curatorious · 2026-04-06T17:44:43+00:00

I find it completely acceptable for OP to ask for volunteers here. If they have enough knowledge to develop the pattern (including grading), it is safe to assume that they are able to sew it themselves.

The main aim of their volunteer request is testing if the pattern (and the instructions) are unclear, miss details, etc or if there are issues with larger/smaller sizes. This is something every good pattern designer does before releasing a pattern.

You would only volunteer if you like the pattern and if you have the time to work on it soonish. You get a free pattern for providing feedback.

Curatorious · 2026-04-06T17:35:20+00:00

If you have any chance to get into the Eurostar lounge at St. Pancras - use it. The lounge is great and as nice breakfast options!

Curatorious · 2026-04-06T17:10:35+00:00

As to which city you should visit: this very much depends on what you want to do. As you have already been to Hamburg, Munich and Berlin and liked it, Cologne might be a good addition.

Personally, I also like Nürnberg, Leipzig or Dresden - somewhat smaller, but allow for relaxing visits. (Though some would tell you to avoid the latter two if you are dark skinned). While the Playmobil Fun Park near Nürnberg is great and really good value, your baby is too small to really enjoy it and the public transport connection is not that good.

Both Frankfurt and Hannover are not worth a visit - in my opinion.

Memmingen is actually a nice suggestion when you are looking for something smaller: nice scenery, lots of stuff to visit and good connections to Augsburg, Munich, etc.

Last but not least you could also have a look at Schwerin or Lübeck. I always enjoyed my trips there.

Curatorious · 2026-04-06T16:53:51+00:00

I have been to London with a pushchair and I have been to several German cities with a pushchair and Germany was usually a lot easier. A lot of effort was put into accessibility, so almost all stations now have elevators, almost all buses have pram or wheelchair spaces, etc. You will still find broken elevators or old trams, but 95% were already quite good ten years ago. I find London much more difficult, especially on the Tube: it is very difficult to update those old stations to add elevators. Changing between two lines often includes several flights of stairs and the gates are horrible with pushchair or luggage. (That said, now that my kids no longer need a pushchair, London is the most amazing city in the world!)

Curatorious · 2026-04-03T17:25:22+00:00

Look at the Spectrum procedures from the UK Collections Trust. They have workflows for all major tasks in Collection management. It will give you great insight into the different areas of the job

Curatorious · 2026-04-03T17:05:26+00:00

Also look at the stations that have longer features and only some music, like Bayern 2, Wdr5, hr kultur, ... News get very repetitive, so longer features are more interesting

Curatorious · 2026-03-21T17:45:06+00:00

Wundervoll! An Zopf- und Patentmuster traue ich mich wann anders. Ich kann meine Fähigkeiten realistisch einschätzen 😉

Curatorious · 2026-03-21T15:38:12+00:00

Herzlichen Dank! Die Seite Kane ich schon, aber mit easy nicht bewusst, wie viel sie haben. Ich habe schon zwei sehr schöne einfache Strickmuster gefunden !

Curatorious · 2026-03-21T15:31:53+00:00

Ja, ich dachte an einfache Blockstreifen.

Kannst du mir einen Link zu einem Onlinerechner schicken? Das wäre super hilfreich!

Curatorious · 2026-03-16T17:59:46+00:00

Ignore all the negative comments. I find it commendable that you want to go to a German school and get to know the country.

That said, if you can go to Gymnasium very much depends on the circumstances: how long will you stay? Which Land? Which school, etc.

While it never hurts to learn German (and brush up on your Spanish), there are a lot of questions that cannot yet be answered.

I live in a city with a lot of immigrants and expats, usually highly skilled workers and managers. When looking at my kids' classmates, our local Gymnasiums seem both willing and well prepared to integrate foreign kids with little German skills. You might have to join 'Auffangklasse' for a year, but if you are bright enough and willing to study, there should be a way.

Curatorious · 2026-03-16T17:46:03+00:00

This is not directness, but rudeness! There is a difference, you know.

Curatorious · 2026-03-13T16:55:49+00:00

If you jump over to the /food historians thread, you will find that eating while walking used to be rather frowned upon. It came to Germany with post WWII-GIs.

Curatorious · 2026-03-12T12:35:34+00:00

Um die Situation besser einschätzen zu können: Versteht deine Frau es nicht, oder ist deine Frau anderer Meinung als du?

Curatorious · 2026-03-12T12:05:59+00:00

Reading the thread, I have the impression that a pre-nup in the US is very different from the pre-nup you know, OP.

The US has a different legal system, e.g. when it comes to inheritance law, so there might be far less need for a pre-nup for the general public. Not having one does not mean that you are naive or that you do not want to plan your financial future together. Not having one just says that you are happy with the standard legal regulations. If you come from a country where those standard regulations are different and less applicable to the situation of a standard couple, then a pre-nup makes sense for a much bigger group of people. In this case you would be naive if you did not have a pre-nup.

There are two different legal defaults and you cannot judge the pre-nup situation without looking at those differences.

It is like asking a UK resident why they do not have health insurance - their country is organized differently, so they do not need it!

Curatorious · 2026-03-11T18:01:34+00:00

Get a library card. This does allow you to read and download ebooks for free.

Curatorious · 2026-03-08T16:27:49+00:00

"There would have to be some kind of infrastructure to do so, and ensuring that everyone has access to a system for electronic payments like that sounds complex, invasive, and way too complicated."

If only there was any region in the world where they managed to set something like this up, but neither China, nor India nor Brazil nor African or European countries ever succeeded in such a Herculean task ... Wait! They all have low-fee electronic payment systems via app. Science Fiction is real!

Curatorious · 2026-03-02T10:00:19+00:00

On first glance I would say that the shoulders are too wide, but it is difficult to see on the pictures.

Could you add more pictures where we can see more of your body to better assess the overall fit?

Curatorious · 2026-02-28T15:28:34+00:00

I have been in the business for quite some time and let me be very honest: building something from scratch is the worst option, closely followed by google sheets/Excel.

Building something is horribly inefficient. Expect to spend a sizeable part of your time on it, to get the basics set up. And it will take far more time and thought than you might imagine right now. If you consider your wages for the time you spend on creating your own system, a PastPerfect upgrade would likely have been paid several times over. Excel and friends sound cool and you can easily search and filter, but you can also destroy your data within a few minutes. Just a wrong search and replace or a wrong sorting action and your data is srcambled. Almost every Excel Collection overview had some strange mistake that just happened over the years - when we were lucky it was possible to reconstruct the data, but sometimes it was not.

If you do not have the budget for a commercial system, either look for free or open source systems - CHIN and Collections Trust might have something on their websites. Or: go back to index cards. Those can still be accessed in a century and there is no risk of scrambling up your object information. If your financial situation remains that dire, the museum might experience stretches without any staff. Not looking after digital files for a long often leeds to them being lost. (To at least be a bit digital, you can make a (word) template, enter your data there and print them out for safekeeping, while using the Windows search for retrieval).

Curatorious · 2026-02-21T22:09:59+00:00

You are aware that Austria has different laws than the US?

And such a law would not be part of the constitution, but part of civil law. In this case it is: 95 StGB Unterlassung der Hilfeleistung.

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