It has taken trainspotting to another level.
Meet Lasse Stolley, a 17-year-old who lives on the trains and uses a 10,000 euro (£8,500/$10,670) a year season ticket to hop from one service to another.
This squatter travels 600 miles a day throughout Germany aboard Deutsche Bahn (DB) trains using the Train card 100 – an unlimited train pass that even allows you to travel first class.
He sleeps on ICE night trains, has breakfast in DB lounges and showers in public swimming pools and leisure centres. And everything is completely legal.
Lasse decided to leave his hometown in Fockbek, Schleswig-Holstein, when he was only 16 years old to embark on this unusual adventure.
17-year-old Lasse Stolley left her hometown in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, to travel around the country by train all year round. He sleeps on night trains and showers in public pools.
Lasse travels aboard Deutsche Bahn trains (above) using the Bahncard100, an unlimited train pass that even allows you to travel in first class.
What do your parents think about it? “It took a lot of convincing” before they finally agreed and helped clean out his childhood room, he said.
This self-employed coder has no fixed address and loves life on the railways. He regularly posts updates to his blog, Life on the Train.
During the day, he sits at a table and works with travelers and passengers in general. At night, she sets up a small bed over the train seats as she travels from one end of the country to the other.
In an interview with Business Insider, said: “I have a lot of freedom and I can decide every day where I want to go, whether to the Alps, to a big city or to the sea.” I’m completely flexible.’
However, he has had to adapt to a minimalist lifestyle while moving. She carries all of her belongings in a 36-liter backpack and washes her clothes in the DB Lounge sinks.
Lasse says he enjoys the “freedom” this unusual lifestyle brings him. He is pictured here in Emsland, at a testing facility for Transrapid trains.
Lasse carries all his belongings with him in a 36-liter backpack and washes his clothes in the DB Lounge sinks. He is pictured above in Wernigerode, Germany.
Lasse makes the most of this limited space by packing four T-shirts, two pairs of pants, a neck pillow, and a travel blanket. But the most important items, he said, are his laptop and his noise-canceling headphones.
Lasse plans his trip through an app to make sure he can follow his overnight train and have a place to sleep.
He hopes his train experience will eventually lead to a job.
“My wish would be to be able to give my opinion to transport companies, for example Deutsche Bahn or train manufacturers, and to be paid for it,” he said.
There haven’t been any firm job offers yet, but Lasse is still hopeful. “Let’s see,” he said.
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