Since 2023, I’ve clocked up over 25,000km by train across Europe – roughly the equivalent of travelling halfway across the globe. These slow, sprawling journeys took me from the Baltic Sea to the ...

The corvette "Magdeburg" sets course for the Baltic Sea at the start of the NATO maneuver Baltops from the Warenmünde base. Stefan Sauer/dpa NATO forces began conducting a two-week exercise on the ...