Girl On A Train by Pete Atkin for starters, followed by Beware Of The Beautiful Stranger. Now enjoy the rest of your journey...

I think it might be easier to ask Matthew Ryan to write you a song describing the trip, Fraser...

How many songs are there about travelling east through Europe? I'm stuck, sorry.

"Backpacking on the graves of our ancestors" is a best of compilation. Covers most ethnic slants, particularly as you head eastwards. Sound sort of trainy to, their name, as well as th ealbum sounding appropriate for travel.

Plastic Bertrand

I presume you listen to it all day at work. Feel slightly pressured to “keep up” and all that. Why not leave the pod at home and just listen to whatever you might come across. Sounds like a great trip. Have fun

It's on one of our Now Hear This CDs.

I don't know if its still available but once you hit the middle east the first track on this album 11 mins and 35 sec of it (also called Cover the Crime) should hit the spot. Especially if you are on a train belting through the countryside, lying in your bed at at the time of the call to prayer or just belting around the Souk. In my experience.

With your connections (speak to your pal Andrew Harrison) you should be able to get a copy.

Happy Days.

Too obvious?

From the German film Goodbye Lenin and very nice travel music me thinks....and another excuse for me to plug Yann Tiersen

A bit of obvious cheese...if you dont take it with you will still hum it anyway when you pass through Austria!

... sounds like Bob Dylan doing disco:

You could have Vaya Con Dios for a classy Belgian artist:

Then from Bowie: Heroes (for a reminder of the days of the Berlin wall) , Station to Station (for it's evocation of a train leaving a station) and The Secret Life of Arabia, which handily gives you Berlin (although possibly/probably not recorded in Berlin, as someone will no doubt point out but part of so-called Bowie Berlin trilogy/period) and Arabia in one song:

That's 4 countries covered.

Iran by A Flock of Seagulls?

Romania, the original Transylvania, so for a Dracula theme take The Historian to read and listen to Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus (which covers Germany too!).

A fine song about Belgium sung by Tom Robinson, with Martyn Joseph and Steve Knightly on the 'Faith, Folk and Anarchy' album. The song can be heard at

http://www.cockerel.net/music/ffa/04fields.mp3

and the whole album can be downloaded for free here

http://www.faithfolkanarchy.com/mailordr.htm

It comes highly recommended, as, indeed, does Belgium.

OK, a contrived link too far, but I can't find any other way to shoe-horna reference in to Los de Abajo, who played the (highbrow-ish) Lichfield Festival of Arts on friday. 10 piece mexican ska-punk band, with elements of conjunto and mariachi blended seamlessly into a 4 (+ occasional 5) piece brass sectioned ska/reggae/god knows what band, with turntables and 3 drummers. The good burghers knew not what had hit them, with dancing elders in the aisles. Tip top stuff or what. I believe I saw pvincent, head nodding vigorously in the front row.