The only trip you will regret is the one you don't take. 

你唯一會後悔的旅行是你沒有去的那一個。

Hello and welcome to the Fly with Lily Podcast. I'm Lily Wong and in the following episodes I will take you on a journey around Europe. In this journey, we will meet a varied cast of people and look at both some of the highlights and challenges of travelling solo. These podcasts cover many different topics and work best when I hear your thoughts, comments and ideas. So please comment, subscribe and share; I always love hearing from my listeners, wherever you may be. 

歡迎來到Fly with Lily的播客，在接下來的幾集我會帶你進行一場環遊歐洲的旅行。在這趟旅行中，我們會見到不同的人物，還會來看一個人旅行的好玩的地方和挑戰之處。這些播客將涵蓋許多不同的主題，你們的心聲、評論還有點子會幫助我做的更好！所以請你們不要吝嗇評論、訂閱或者是分享；我喜歡接到我在各地聽眾的意見。

So, how did it all begin? Why did I pack my bags for a European rail trip? It all started one night in Shanghai in 2015 when I was listening to a talk given by a man who had travelled around Europe with a ukulele and visited five countries on the train in one month. When he talked about the people he had met, I dreamt that I too could have an adventure like this one day. Having lived in Spain for almost three years with an entrepreneur visa, I had become used to the convenience and low cost flight tickets easily available and had forgotten about my dream of travelling in Europe by train. It was when I finally decided to leave Spain that I realised just how many countries I hadn't visited! I didn't know when I would next come back to visit so this seemed like the perfect moment to buy a Eurail pass for two months. Starting from Spain, the countries which I originally planned to visit were France, Monaco, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Denmark, Poland , Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Bosnia, Greece, and finally Italy. Poland, Bosnia and Greece did not happen, including because of winter train timetables however I did get to Sweden. 

所以，一切是怎麼開始的呢？為什麼我會帶上行囊去用火車環遊歐洲呢？用火車環遊歐洲的想法其實是在2015年婦女節的時候，在上海聽了一場演講（後來我也邀請了主講人Alan上我們學英語環遊世界第162集的節目），大受鼓舞，主講人用一個月的時間用火車環遊了5個國家，當他談到路上遇到的有趣的人事物的時候，讓我對火車環歐旅行充滿嚮往，那時我就在心裡默默許願，有機會到了歐洲也要這麼壯遊一場。後來因為拿到創業簽住在西班牙將近三年的時間，由於來往歐洲各國的飛機十分的便宜便利，讓我都差點忘了曾經擁有的夢想！就在我決定離開西班牙回來亞洲定居繼續旅行的時候，才想到歐洲還有好多地方沒看過，而下次回來不知道什麼時候了，我在歐洲鐵路官網上買了一張兩個月的火車通票（Eurail Pass），從西班牙啟程，原先規劃路線從法國、摩納哥、瑞士、奧地利、德國、丹麥、波蘭、匈牙利、斯洛伐克、克羅地亞、波西尼亞、希臘，然後最後一站意大利。因為火車時間表的關係，我最後沒有去成波蘭、波西尼亞還有希臘，然而我卻去到了瑞典。

This was my last adventure before leaving Europe in 2019 and I departed from Spain in November when the weather was getting colder. I used Couchsurfing to stay in strangers' places and get to know people in the cities I was visiting. In two months, I was in twelve countries across Europe. Originally it felt like a mission impossible, and I almost chickened out of it in the middle. The constant long distance travel was a huge test for my mind, body, and soul, however, I gritted my teeth and kept going in the face of challenges. Although the pandemic has been slowing down globally, in Taiwan the infection rate has gone up. At this time, I am living in a hillside village in Taiwan and this has given me the calmness and space to begin writing. I wrote the English version first and edited it with the assistance of my English teacher Oliver, before translating it into Chinese. So listeners, get yourself a drink of your choice, make yourself comfortable and buckle up because we're flying offon our European tour with Lily! 

這是2019年我在離開歐洲的最後一個冒險，我一個人坐火車在開始要變冷11月的時候從西班牙出發，並且用沙發衝浪的方式住在陌生人家中然後認識當地人，用了兩個月去了歐洲12個國家，起初感覺是不可能的任務，甚至害怕會中途退縮，一直長途在路上旅行真的是對身心靈非常大的考驗，但是我還是咬牙達成了！直到最近全世界的疫情較為趨緩，然而在台灣卻感染案例不斷，我搬到了台灣山坡上的小村子，得以靜下心後，我才開始用英文寫下了這個火車環歐旅行還有沙發衝浪的故事，然後請我的英語老師Oliver協助修改，我再自己親自翻譯而成！所以聽眾們，準備好一杯你喜歡的飲料，讓自己坐得舒服些，綁好安全帶因為我們即將和Lily一起飛到歐洲進行一場奇幻之旅！

Stay tuned...there's much more to come! 

In the next episode I'll be taking a closer look at reasons why I decided to leave the beautiful country of Spain and how I overcame the fear associated with this departure.

敬請期待，還有好多故事呢！

下一集我會告訴你我為什麼離開西班牙這個美麗的國家，還有我是如何克服出發伴隨的各種恐懼。

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本系列會將中英的版本分開錄製，想要進行更深入