A SAVVY traveller has managed to save hundreds on rent and expenses after deciding to swap his home for overnight trains. For the past two years Lasse Stolley, 17, picks his night train and waits for it to swing him across Germany as he sleeps. The young man realised his life on tracks costs him less than renting and he manages to get food for free, but he later found out a huge downside to it.
Having grown up in a village in the north of Germany, Lasse has always enjoyed travelling to Scandinavia with his parents and going on nature tours. He also had a lifelong passion for computer programming and taught himself all the skills needed during the pandemic. In the summer of 2022, Lasse was going to begin an apprenticeship as a software engineer after graduating from high school.
But he soon had to find a replacement plan after the programme had to be cancelled a few weeks before it was scheduled to start. A few weeks prior, Lasse had watched a TV report about someone who lived on a train and it was enough for the thought to never leave his mind. The teen loved the idea of being able to travel anywhere in Germany every single day.
So Lasse was onboard his first train on August 8, 2022, and never looked back. But the young German's family did not share the same excitement for his new lifestyle. They were concerned that Lasse might not be able to sleep through the night, that he would be by hilself or that it could be a dangerous adventure.
They were still sceptical for the first.
