IdleRich
IdleRich
I like trains. The most exciting and romantic method of travel. I love stations in the middle of Europe (or even in London in fact) where you can stand and feel something of the magic of countless destinations (and arrivals too giving then an international flavour), to the far East or just to a different country and culture. With planes you can't stand by the windows and run alongside as it pulls out. Dining cars, landscapes, days of travel through changing scenery.
Magic journeys; Orient Express, Trans-Siberian Express, across the Rockies etc Trans-Europe Express... and a handy rule of thumb, songs about trains are pretty much always good. It's a shame that Portugal doesn't properly integrate into the European system except by going ten hours north to Madrid - which means that the Portuguese don't agree with anything I said above.
Never done a really long journey (went from Moscow to Chelyabinsk which is about 44 hours I think - oh and some similar distance in Canada but we slept in a hotel over night which was cheating) but I would love to do one of those luxury ones for about a week in some kind of updated Agatha Christie art deco style but I suppose that that won't be happening any time in the near or even medium future.
Magic journeys; Orient Express, Trans-Siberian Express, across the Rockies etc Trans-Europe Express... and a handy rule of thumb, songs about trains are pretty much always good. It's a shame that Portugal doesn't properly integrate into the European system except by going ten hours north to Madrid - which means that the Portuguese don't agree with anything I said above.
Never done a really long journey (went from Moscow to Chelyabinsk which is about 44 hours I think - oh and some similar distance in Canada but we slept in a hotel over night which was cheating) but I would love to do one of those luxury ones for about a week in some kind of updated Agatha Christie art deco style but I suppose that that won't be happening any time in the near or even medium future.