Vacation by bus

Lately, I have tried traveling by bus when going to Norway, Germany or The Netherlands. It has been a surprisingly good way of traveling, if you ask me. Living in Denmark, most northern European destinations are not far away, and both Oslo, and northern German or Dutch cities are just a nights bus ride away. This opens for a lot of options. Not only is traveling by bus sometimes a lot cheaper than going by plane, but by traveling for one night, and hopefully sleeping through the night as well, you wake up in a new city and are ready to explore, with the first night of your trip as a free night. Of course, the seats of the bus are nothing like a hotel/ hostel bed, but if you're one of those that can just fall asleep anywhere at any time, the bus seats are comfortable enough, after all.

One other positive thing about taking the bus, is of course the environment. As a frequent traveler, with family and friends in a lot of different countries, I have often questioned the logic behind the (sometimes) insanely cheap flight tickets, compared to the pricey bus and train-tickets. The 2013 founded German bus company Flixbus has now joined the competition, and offers bus tickets that are much cheaper than most plane tickets. Hopefully, the trains will follow, but for now, I must say I am enjoying traveling by bus, when the trip is up to 12 hours long, and preferably over night. My guess is that backpacking through Europe on interrail-trips will be having competition from Flixbus anytime soon (or it already has).

My first trip with Flixbus, from Amsterdam to Copenhagen, here we are driving over Storebælt. 

From my trip with Flixbus from Copenhagen to Hamburg in April.

Flixbus has a lot of destinations from Copenhagen, and in the past couple of months, I have tried going to Oslo, Amsterdam, Hamburg, and from Hamburg to Groningen with this new, green float.