Gittemarie
Gittemarie Johansen is a writer, speaker, and content creator exploring the most ecological ways of travelling. Her YouTube and Instagram channels feature her voyages across Europe on public transportation, where she offers green travel tips to her viewers.
This time, Gittemarie is travelling by train from Aalborg in Denmark through Copenhagen and on to Stockholm! Along the way, she’ll give you the details about what’s in store for the train lines connecting the Nordics to one another and continental Europe.
Gittemarie is about to explore a key train route between Denmark and Sweden. Her journey from Aalborg - Copenhagen - Stockholm takes place along the Scandinavian-Mediterranean Corridor of the trans-European transport network, which extends from the North of Finland, Sweden, and Norway, through Denmark, Germany, and Austria on to the Mediterranean coast of Southern Italy and further on by sea to Malta.
Denmark has plans to make all four of its largest cities – Copenhagen, Odense, Aarhus, and Aalborg – reachable within an hour journey of each other. The first leg of Gittemarie’s journey showed how smooth it already was to get from Aalborg to Copenhagen.
Central Station, Copenhagen! Gittemarie is about to switch to the line connecting with Stockholm. Today, that trip can take up to six hours. With the new high-speed connections funded by the EU and its Member States, that time will be reduced to just four hours.
That’s all part of the EU’s work to improve high-speed rail for a harmonised train experience by 2040. You’ll get attractive transportation options no matter where you’re starting from!
Gittemarie has made it to smoothly to Stockholm. Was it worth the collective ten hours of train travel? ‘You absolutely bet it was,’ she says!
Did you know that 18 year old residents of the EU or of countries associated with Erasmus+ can apply for a similar train experience for free through #DiscoverEU?