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Personal Travel Journals

Field Notes
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Being an account of journeys undertaken with curiosity and some preparation

Vol. I · Gregor Senauer · Vienna, MMXXVI

These pages are kept by Gregor Senauer, a computer scientist based in Vienna, Austria. The expeditions recorded here are undertaken with scientific attention as much as personal curiosity. The notebook is always open. The train is seldom late.

Origin 48.2083°N · 16.3731°E
Vienna, Austria Method Train · Ferry · Foot
No. I June, 2026 12 days

Romania — Where the River Dissolves

Vienna to the Danube Delta via the Night Mail

Eastern Europe · Danube Delta

From Vienna Hauptbahnhof aboard the D 347 Dacia — one of the last great overnight rail services still threading the Carpathians — southeastward through the breadth of Romania to Tulcea, and onward by river ferry to Sfântu Gheorghe: the place where the Danube runs out of continent and becomes sea. Undertaken in company with a local companion from Cluj-Napoca.

Vienna Hbf Bucharest Tulcea Sfântu Gheorghe Letea Forest Black Sea

Endpoint: 44.8855°N · 29.4574°E  ·  ~580 km overland · ~280 km by water

"The pelicans were exactly where they were supposed to be."

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