In the current political climate, border control is unfortunate becoming much more common. I had the border policy empty our bus and search everyone with dogs and half of us had to open our bags.
On my vacation in Germany we were not once asked on the train for our passports. We are white. The police would demand every non-white persons’ “visa” and most of the time the questioned individual would produce a German ID or an ID from another EU member state.
I stopped counting how many times the ICE broke down on this route. Of course I also had delays when using the TGV but not due to the train itself. Also the seats in the ICE are not comfortable at all.
You can go from Paris to Stuttgart in less 3h 30min by train. No customs, no TSA, downtown to downtown.
Freiburg to Paris in about 3h, just went last weekend.
In the current political climate, border control is unfortunate becoming much more common. I had the border policy empty our bus and search everyone with dogs and half of us had to open our bags.
On my vacation in Germany we were not once asked on the train for our passports. We are white. The police would demand every non-white persons’ “visa” and most of the time the questioned individual would produce a German ID or an ID from another EU member state.
It was a sad sight.
Pretty much. And it you look latino… You’ll be lucky if you don’t get interrogated or searched as I heard from close friends…
Well there’s is some racism due to the begger problem in the trains, but they’re also just assholes
Couple of years ago only they would just check everyone’s id in a rather respectful way. Might depend on the border being crossed?
We took the trains from Germany to the Czech Republic and back. Then from Germany to Austria and back. Finally we went to France.
I recall some checks on regional trains as well, including in Bavaria and I want to say around Berlin but I can’t remember where exactly.
Not once were we asked though, all checks were selective and clearly biased
TGV > ICE
I stopped counting how many times the ICE broke down on this route. Of course I also had delays when using the TGV but not due to the train itself. Also the seats in the ICE are not comfortable at all.
DB is just fucked tbh, it needs serious reformulating.
The DB board: oh, you mean privatising more?
They see it working in Japan, but I suspect that is because it’s in Japan. Britain is gonna find out soon I guess.
The ICE restaurant car always cures the delay blues, at least for me :)