The Ski Podcast

Train Travel to the Alps (Bonus Episode #4)

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For this Ski Podcast special Iain has his Ski Flight Free hat on and is joined by Daniel Elkan from Snowcarbon and Anna Hughes from Flight Free UK to discuss train travel to the Alps.

  • Great options for checking your carbon footprint include the WWF Footprint Calculator and Ecopassenger 
  • Find out more about the Save The Ski Train campaign on Facebook
  • You can sign the petition here
  • Changing stations in Paris is not difficult. This video shows Iain’s journey to Courchevel last winter
  • Train travel in the ‘new normal’ is very different
  • Iain referred to this study about the chances of catching Covid on a train
  • You can hear more about Iain’s trip to Zermass and Saas Fee by train in Episode 57 of The Ski Podcast
  • Iain likes to book direct with Eurostar and SNCF
  • Anna has travelled to Scotland on the Caledonian Sleeper on multiple occasions
  • It’s possible to travel overnight to Austria with the Alpen Express service 
  • Iain has previously written for Ski2 about taking the train to Champoluc 
  • Sam Haddad travelled on the ski train to Les Arcs
  • Daniel recommends the Railmap of Europe
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