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The Indian Pacific: from ocean to ocean across Australia by train

Don’t you love the notion of travelling from one ocean to another on a train? That’s one of the things that has always made the idea of a journey on the Indian Pacific so alluring for me. And after years of dreaming about it, I’m pleased we did it… well, part of it… the Perth … Read more about The Indian Pacific: from ocean to ocean across Australia by train

Slow travel: train-dreaming

by Lara Dunston

“Journeys are the mid-wives of thought”, writes Alain de Botton in my favorite book, Art of Travel. But of all the modes of transport that are most conducive to “internal conversation”, to thinking and to dreaming, the best, he believes, is the train. He writes “On a journey across flat country, I think with a … Read more about Slow travel: train-dreaming