MT#9 - Night Trains in Europe

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In this episode of the Amateur Traveler podcast, host Chris Christensen talks with Bart from Trip Tailor, a travel agent and former train steward who has been working with European rail for decades. Bart shares his deep knowledge of night trains in Europe, from their practical benefits to the romance of waking up in a new city. Why Night Trains? Bart explains that he first started working on night trains as a student job in the 1990s, and the appeal never left him. Compared to planes, night trains offer: ... https://amateurtraveler.com/night-trains-in-europe/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of the Amateur Traveler podcast is sponsored by Smart Travel, a new podcast from the smart people at NerdWallet.
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0:56.7	Follow Smart Travel wherever you get your podcasts. And thanks to Smart Travel and NerdWallet for
1:02.2	sponsoring this episode of Amateur Traveler. This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler,
1:08.4	and this is not a normal episode of amateur traveler, but a bonus
1:11.6	episode in what I'm calling the More Travel series. This particular episode is about taking night
1:17.7	trains in Europe. So stay tuned and learn more. I'd like to welcome the show Bart from tri from tripp taylor.b.e.
1:29.4	And Bart sells night trains in Europe and occasionally still works on them.
1:34.8	And that's the subject of this special episode of amateur traveler, night trains in Europe.
1:39.4	Bart, welcome to the show.
1:41.7	Thank you.
1:42.2	Hi, Chris.
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