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I took slow trains over to Bilbao for Transiberica and Ulrich bagged his bike and took fast trains, so it's possible but my way took like 12hrs or something. I think I rode from LogroNo to Bilbao, maybe 120k but trained the rest.
I found a note: Eurostar £149ea, E144ea Paris 2 Barca
Considering I've just booked a ticket from London to Barca for another event for £2 and some Avios points, you can see why even the greenest individuals might have second thoughts about the train option.
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Yeah, the cost differential is quite something. Less so if you haven't got any Avios points. Does that include flying a bike box over too?
I reckon I'd be looking at well north of £150 one way to fly with a bike. But the Paris - Barcelona on top of that (although I get a third off with my Carte Avantage) is quite a hefty 'green tax'.
ketsbaia
Yeah, annoyingly the Eurostar no fully assembled bikes thing has made it annoyingly impractical to train it all the way there and back. I guess you could box it up, though. Given you're going to be dismantling at least some of the bike to get it on a plane, it's kinda the same thing.
But it is considerably more expensive and I haven't even looked at getting the train back from Bilbao to Paris (though it must be possible).