Is there anyone out there who doesn’t love train travel? I was pleased to see some of the comments in praise of rail travel on my recent post about Australia’s transcontinental train, the Indian Pacific as I was thinking perhaps I’d just mellowed too much (read: aged). But Stella Stopfer from European Travelling Advisor wrote … Read more about Breakfast in bed and the romance of train travel revisited
Don’t you love a train that still goes clackety clack clackety clack? The Indian Pacific may not make that precise sound but it does make noise and that’s one of the things I loved about it. Japan’s Kawasaki company may be developing a new fast train to criss-cross the tiny country at a super-speedy 350 … Read more about Train noise… the ideal soundtrack to tracking shots of epic landscapes
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
There’s a certain romance about train travel that’s hard to imagine if you’re sleeping upright in cattle class on an overnight interstate train trip in Australia. Ugh. But Australia now has something that comes close to the likes of the luxurious Venice Simplon Orient Express in the romantic train stakes – the new Platinum class … Read more about The Ghan: nothing like the romance of train travel to rekindle a love for travel
“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