Thomas A. Frederiksen<p>I'm preparing an <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/InterRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InterRail</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/CrossBorderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrossBorderRail</span></a> summer vacation to Edinburgh, or at least attempting to.</p><p>As far as I can tell, the optimal Copenhagen - Edinburgh train route is something like this:</p><p>1: EC395 Copenhagen-Hamburg, then ICE1021 Hamburg-Köln. Stay overnight.<br>2: ICE18 Köln-Bruxelles, then EST9135 Bruxelles-London (with more than three hours for delays and security theatre). Then a hop to Kings Cross and the 16:00 London Kings Cross to Edinburgh LNER service.</p><p>The above seems doable, if a bit "interesting" in case of significant delays or cancellations.</p><p>I've also considered the following:</p><p>Ferry from The Netherlands. Ferries going to Harwich have been ruled out as the rail journey on the UK side seemed a bit of a bother and getting in to NL from DE is apparently very much a bother. The Amsterdam-Norwich ferry has been given the wifely seal of non-approval.</p><p>Caledonian sleeper from London to Edinburgh. This is still tempting, depending on lounge access with a first class interrail ticket.</p><p>Wishful thinking (a revived Esbjerg-Harwich ferry) aside, am I missing anything glaringly obvious here?</p><p>Any <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/FediBrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FediBrain</span></a> advice?</p>