“…for someone like me that enjoys very long train rides though beautiful countryside.” Pretty much describes all of us watching your channel. 🙂 Thank you again for taking us along another another wonderful adventure.

@JohnnyHooverTravels

23 күн бұрын

Yes, I suppose you are right! Thanks for coming along 👍

An absolute pleasure to watch part 2. I was once again blown away by the scenery and the engineering required to build such a railway.

@JohnnyHooverTravels

19 күн бұрын

@@Timstravels01 me too. Such a fun ride. I'm so pleased to have got the chance to ride it.

Thanks Johnny for a stunning second part. Always a pleasure watching your vlogs.

@JohnnyHooverTravels

23 күн бұрын

Thanks very much, and thanks too for for watching along 👍

View out my window is a buttercup filled park. Stunning.

@JohnnyHooverTravels

23 күн бұрын

Yes they are so lovely. I was so lucky to travel at the time of year with such lovely weather.

A very nice Monday surprise Johnny. Thanks.

@JohnnyHooverTravels

23 күн бұрын

You are very welcome. Thank you for watching along 👍

What a beautiful part of the route to villach

@JohnnyHooverTravels

23 күн бұрын

Yes indeed 👍

Very Scenic! "Sound of Music Territory!

@JohnnyHooverTravels

23 күн бұрын

Haha. Yes i suppose so 😁 Continuing to Ljubljana on Friday.

Just inject this route into my veins! 🤣🤣🤣 Looking forward to the Slovenian leg .... Ljubljana, Kamnik, Triglav and the rest of Slovenia were among my favourite parts of my recent jaunt around central Europe. Cheers!

@JohnnyHooverTravels

23 күн бұрын

Yes the FLIRT ride is coming up on Friday!

I Like to your excellent presentation. I am waiting on India is my country for your next videos

@JohnnyHooverTravels

23 күн бұрын

Thank you 👍

Great Video Johnny

@JohnnyHooverTravels

23 күн бұрын

Cheers Paul 👍

Cracking video!

@JohnnyHooverTravels

23 күн бұрын

Thanks so much! And thanks to you for coming along 👍

Just as stunning as Friday`s part 1, thanks for another uplifting journey report :) Don`t you think those glorious vistas would also look wonderful with some nice crisp snow? Hint, hint!

@JohnnyHooverTravels

23 күн бұрын

There is talk of Mark and i reconvening in the area in January '25 😉 Best wishes to you 👍

Brilliant video and excellent scenery!! Hope all is well, take care

@JohnnyHooverTravels

23 күн бұрын

Doing good, thanks Peter. Thanks for the kind words. Off on that FLIRT next week.

Very many thanks Johnny for yet another excellent video! And the presentation of your videos is just getting better and better! Please keep on posting a map of the journey you are about to undertake! I did not need a map for this section of your journey, but I will certainly need one for the run through Slovenia, a country i have never visited!

@JohnnyHooverTravels

23 күн бұрын

I have changed my presentation (hopefully for the better) as the channel has grown, but i think the clear route map is important to help give some context for the journey, so i have no plans to change or remove that section. Shooting through the glass is definitely improved now i have my lens shade, so the reflections are reduced/ removed.

@Fan652w

23 күн бұрын

@@JohnnyHooverTravels I have been watching your channel only for a few months. The improvement in the quality of your videos is VERY MARKED. When I started watching your channel, I wondered 'Will I be watching in six months time?' Now I am asking. 'Are Johnny's videos better than those of his friend Mark? Are they better than those from Steve Marsh and Scott Manson?''

Nice trip, great scenery, hope you got the connection. Totally agree your comments about UK train information - last week we were out and about between Attenborough and Welshpool and 3 of the 5 5 trains had duff information about the train set up - and one train manager that made us walk up the platform because we were standing by the first class carriage! Waiting for XC Customer Service to respond on this!

@JohnnyHooverTravels

23 күн бұрын

Yes, i made the connection and that ride will be out on Friday. Sorry to hear that you were messed about. Sometimes the changes are unavoidable, but it is really difficult for those with reduced mobility, for sure. Thanks for watching 👍

Those maps of where the trains stop are useful as long as they don't announce a rearrangement of the Wagenreihungen Köln Hbf is famous for that. We have to order a Hublift for my partner's wheel chair and a DB person to operate it. In Köln Hbf it is not unusual to change platform and change ends LOL I call it the Kölner Übung (Cologne exercise regime)! In the UK do they bother? I was in Preston and I asked where first class was likely to be. The guy said it was fifty fifty which end so you were best off waiting in the middle LOL

@JohnnyHooverTravels

23 күн бұрын

I can imagine Köln to be tricky. There's a lot of trains getting re-platformed I have heard from other travellers Tbf on the UK, there is often train configuration information on the platform indicator, and i generally find it to be correct (but not always) I usually go with the adage "1st class at the London end" - that certainly remains the case on the GWR mainlines. Level boarding is really the desire so you and your partner can be far more independent, without the need for further assistance. For all their faults, at least those New Generation RailJets do have level boarding, which is a vast improvement for many. Best wishes to you and your partner 👍

Anothef great trip relort Johnny. Keep it going enjoy. Just also look up irish railway modeller . MK IV refurbished Dublin to Cork.

@JohnnyHooverTravels

19 күн бұрын

@@terryosullivan2620 thanks! And i will check that out 👍

@JohnnyHooverTravels

19 күн бұрын

@@terryosullivan2620 thanks! And i will check that out 👍

Regarding the EC163/164 trains Graz to Zurich, it is magnificent Alpine scenery almost the whole way. But this is one of the few trains in German-speaking Europe where i would advise that a seat reservation is absolutely essential 365-days-a-year and in both classes. I have first hand experience of how busy this train gets!

@JohnnyHooverTravels

23 күн бұрын

Thanks for the advice Roger 👍 And, of course, thanks for watching too 👍

@simonpilk

16 күн бұрын

@@JohnnyHooverTravelsI am also a pretty frequent EC164 traveller in various parts of the route. There is a change at Selzthal into the 1120 Selzthal - Linz which is a super scenic run notably in its initial stage. A real gem to me is also to take EC164 to Stainach Irdning for the brief connection into R4409 the 1140 Stainach Irdning - Attnang Puchheim via Hallstatt and Bad Ischl. Both are loco hauled trains and sitting on the left initially gives a lovely view through the mountains and the large lake at Hallstadt. Swap sides then to the right through to Attnang Puchheim as the other lake views later on are just stunning. Not that I am biased you understand…..

@JohnnyHooverTravels

14 күн бұрын

@@simonpilk thanks. I've added that to my list 👍

Those aren't buttercups, they're yellow rape plants, part of the brassica family, used to make canola or rapeseed oil. Very profitable.

@JohnnyHooverTravels

19 күн бұрын

@@godders7964 yeah, makes sense. I wasn't sure what they were... Thanks for the info and thanks for watching too 👍

How much does the government pay the land owner/farmers to not grow crops but just make the farms look nice?

@godders7964

21 күн бұрын

They are called EU subsidies. In the 1980s the EU even paid Bavarian dairy farmers to throw away the glut of milk!

@JohnnyHooverTravels

19 күн бұрын

@@rickolson3114 haha! Maybe the farms do just look that way 🤷‍♂️ Thanks for watching 👍