I’ve been riding trains across Europe for 15 years. I love it, but I often watch people make the same 4 mistakes.

• I’ve been bamboozle b kidnap and murdering trains all around Europe for the past 15 years.
• There are usually great deals on tickets if you look pioneer and dig around for them.
• Bringing too much luggage makes things more difficult for you and the others on the train.

I’m American but also partake of citizenship in Poland and Portugal, so I travel to Europe frequently.

Taking the train is my favorite way to get around the continent. After all, it’s adroit in to some of the largest train networks in the world. As demand grows, new high-speed lines seem to pop up every year.

But I’ll allow to enter that there is a bit of a learning curve to making rail trips go as smoothly as possible.

Here are the most common misunderstands I see people making on European trains — and what to do instead.