Room with a view: teen lives on trains

Frankfurt Lasse Stolley was looking for a change in scenery after a planned apprenticeship fell through.

So nearly two years ago the teenager began living on German trains.

This has taken the 17-year-old from a small community in Germany's far north to the country's southern borders and beyond.

Setting off in August 2022, he has travelled a staggering 650 000km, the equivalent of going around the earth over 15 times, while sitting on trains for more than 6 700 hours.

"Being able to decide every day where I want to go is freedom," Stolley said at Frankfurt train station.

"I like that I can just look out of the window while travelling and watch the landscape quickly zipping by... and that I can explore every place in Germany."