Start a travel blog Login. This blog is published chronologically. Go straight to the most recent post. Paris is great - but who can afford Paris all the time? TGV in Karlsruhe central station. We all like to travel to distant destinations — but how much do we know about the surroundings of our hometowns? There is certainly a lot to discover at our doorsteps, no matter where we live. Touring from home has several advantages. No packing, no luggage schlepping, no organizing who takes care of the house, waters the pot plants, feeds the pets and collects the mail.
It saves money because you do not need to pay for accommodation since you sleep at home, and travel costs for short distances are usually low. It can be done without taking holiday time off work. Tram S4 in Eppingen. One summer, when I had no money left for travel, I bought a monthly pass for the entire KVV, our regional public transport network, and set out on a new day trip every day.
My aim was to have travelled all train and tram lines at least once and to see as many of the small towns in our surroundings as possible. The KVV area covers parts of the Northern Black Forest, the Kraichgau hills and the southern part of Palatine and two border destinations in Alsace, so there are plenty of options.
This was a well-filled summer holiday. Karlsruhe is a transport hub with excellent train connections in all directions, both long-distance and regional trains and local trams. I have been living here for 15 years now, and I still have some unseen destinations left…. Russell the Wombat is my faithful companion on these trips and will make an appearance in my photos every now and then. This blog is based on the seemingly countless number of destination pages I wrote for the now defunct Virtualtourist.
The city of Karlsruhe itself will, due to the vast amount of material I have, not be described in here but receive its own blog at some point. Destinations will come up at random and totally unsorted in here, because this is the nature of day trips: We choose a place to visit and off we go, and next time whe choose another destination which is usually unrelated to the previous one.
