@Cosinux, Having been in Paris many times over many years, 10 PM is not late, it is the time locals still start with dinner in restaurants.

I can not say anything about the part of the city you are going, as I have not been there myself.

On second thoughts, after a look on google maps, your hotel seems to be close to (and behind) Gare Paris Nord, which is an area I have been.

There are several good alternatives for walking, but if public transport runs going by Metro or bus will be the easier option.

I want this! Flying non-stop Paris to St. Pierre, ferry to Fortune, NL, hitch-hike to Clarenville, NL, bus to Port-aux-Basque, NL, ferry to Sydney, NS, bus to Truro, NS, train to Montréal-Toronto-Jasper-Prince Rupert, bus to Skagway, train+bus to Whitehorse, fly non-stop Whitehorse to Frankfurt

Combining what the "one mile at the time" website calls the strangest and second-strangest nonstop transatlantic flights

How long would ferry+hitchhike+bus+ferry+bus+train+train+train+ferry+train+bus take?

@gerrit, Long.

I remember Toronto to Prince Rupert being several days, and that is the predictable bit. (And it did run about 3 times per week, adding more days when having breaks in the journey.)

I do miss the side step to Churchill, but that is one you need to return on, so maybe not for your kind of record.

You have inspired me, my next UK trip will be by Hook-Harwich overnight and via Norwich to Liverpool, missing out London.

Prince Rupert to Skagway is about 2½ days

Ah nice

And when the trains Amsterdam-London are reliably bookable, I might well use that to get to near Bristol for my next trip.

Always good to miss out on London ;-)

I've done Toronto to Jasper

Leaving on an early train here I can/should reach my friends house around 13:00.

Are the trains on the Hoekse Lijn running again yet or still bustituted?

I have done Toronto to Churchill-Jasper-St Rupert-Vancouver.

Metro these days.

Yes, but last time I checked the metro was replaced by a bus

Prince Rupert to Vancouver by ferry?

The planners and the ferry site all mention Metro. (Yes, there might be works but that will be exceptions.)

No, back to Jasper and on by train.

Ferry to Vancouver island and back to Vancouver to catch the plane.

Maybe I should at Haida Gwaii to my list, seeing I'm so close

I started out with Washington DC, so my Canadian part started at Niagara falls.

First time in the Americas and I was right to concentrate most to Canada. Maybe I should have skipped the USA, as it added extra train costs, but felt that I should do both.

I saw a film set there last year, SG̲aawaay Ḵ'uuna. Film in the Haida language, which has so few speakers they must have enlisted all remaining speakers as actors or walk-ins ;-) (24 native speakers)

I have done more in both Canada and USA since, but do prefer Canada. (And that is aside from the president whom I do not trust.)

I used to live in Toronto and used the opportunity to visit the far east (up to L'Anse-aux-Meadows) and the Canadian Rockies, but didn't make it to the west coast until I had a meeting in Whistler, but by then I was living in England again.

I don't avoid countries due to not trusting presidents (I was in Russia last September, very beautiful, I think you have seen the pics already but lurkers can check them out here). In North America I like the SW USA because it's more unique compared to what Europe has to offer.

@gerrit, do you keep up with the situation in Paris? (See the question by Cosinux above)

I found there's a paradox when it comes to hiking in North America... the land is huge, but there are hardly any old pre-tourism trails, and the few that are there are often very busy (such as the Chilkoot Trail). By comparison, the Alps are very densely populated but I've managed to hike for days meeting almost nobody there.

Paris is on strike

I have just booked a train ticket from Rouen to home, for two months from now, hoping the trains will be reliable by then.

We took a taxi from Gare de Lyon to Gare de l'Est due to the RER/Metro situation on the 4th of January (plus we had lots of luggage), but the taxi queue was so long we almost missed our train.

This guy needs to do about the same route but to a hotel, late in the evening.

On our southbound trip to Spain, the trains were cancelled and we ended up taking the train to Savona and a ferry to Barcelona, northbound it was fine until Paris and from there to Germany there are enough alternatives to manage anyway.

I would not walk alone in Paris at night but would not worry if with a friend.

I would walk alone in Paris at night, but with my wife I would take a taxi in this situation.

It depends if a taxi is in the budget.

I can get home without going through Paris, but it is a series of change of trains, which will get my home late in the evening, rather than late afternoon.

I would prefer to walk in Paris, bus if running in bad weather.

I found that there were many cyclists and erollers on the streets of Paris, probably also partly due to the strike, so the social safety might actually be increased due to the strike.

It was closer to 18:00 than to 22:00 for us though.

Our taxi was slow due to traffic and ended up costing us around €20.

22:00 is not late for Paris, I have seen many people starting dinner in restaurants that time. My friend in the city lives just south of Montmartre, and he is out any time of day and night. (And he is not young by any use of the word.)

€20 is not bad for a distance that takes about an hour to walk, I would be happy to pay it if I was going to be sure it would not get much more.

It would have been less if there had been less traffic

As I said, it depends entirely on ones budget.

My trouble with taxis is that around here they are not willing to do short rides early in the day and are never at the station when I arrive.

So I mostly leave my bike at the station bike shed instead.

I would love a single taxi website or search engine, enter location, destination and travel time and have the site or engine come up with a taxi company that will do the ride.

In the past there was one central call station for the different companies that worked in the area. These days they all have their own phone number and all taxis countrywide can work everywhere in the country.

I took a taxi once from the Fort Erie (Canada)/Buffalo (USA) Port of Entry to the Buffalo train station. The bus from Toronto was late and I was worried I would miss the train. The taxi driver said it had been quite difficult to drive to pick me up at the USA-bound port of entry without driving into Canada, which I certainly believe, but also that he was happy I was not yet another "half mile ride" customer.

Which makes it very hard to get one that is active early in the morning.

I can understand their frustration, stand in a taxi queue waiting for customers, when it's finally their turn to take someone, they only want to go a very short distance...

I think we all know the taxi drivers that just tell the customers that instead of getting in they should walk around the building in front of them.

My parents had a situation like that in Paris, going from Paris North to Paris Est, being lost walking but near the station they needed to go to.

Maybe a different price structure would be more satisfactory for taxi drivers: higher initial rate and lower per-km rate

I never pay less that the minimum fare here, I think the actual distance would be half the cost, but that is no use if there is no taxi to be had.

I am sure you can order a taxi from 10 AM till 10 PM, later on nights the kids go to the pubs. But I need them for early trains.

I live a 7 minute walk from a train station, but did take a taxi once when my train was cancelled (normally I would have taken a 15 minute later one, but that would reduce my transfer time in Frankfurt to just 10 minutes, and since I was heading to a funeral being on time was crucial in this case)

For me it is about 15 minutes without luggage but 20 or a bit more with luggage, and the roads are just a touch rough for the small suitcase wheels for this distance.

I can take a bus instead of a train going one direction and the nearest bus stop is about half the distance, but the overall travel time will go up.

@Cosinux, is your main concern answered or do you need more information still?

@Willeke That's why I bought the Eagle Creek ORV Trunk 30 :)

Can handle the pavement in any central European city, no matter how many kinderhoofdjes they make :)