I’ve always found something strangely romantic about long distance train journeys, slowly meandering across continents in a classic form of mass public transport. Trains bring a touch of class, comfort, space and a social aspect long lost in the modern world of cheap, fast, anti-social cattle transport we call aviation.
I arrived on t [...]
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‘The Canadian’ A journey ...
I’ve always found something strangely romantic about long distance train journeys, slowly meandering across continents in a classic form of mass public transport. Trains bring a touch of class, comfort, space and a social aspect long lost in the modern world of cheap, fast, anti-social cattle transport we call aviation.
I arrived on t [...]
Trans Siberia express
In the winter of 2006 I took “the” train journey through Russia from St Petersburg to Vladivostok. I chose to take the Transsiberia instead of the transmongolia trip because I considered this to be the classic Trans Russia train journey, instead of the modern “the lonely planet says” journey. A trip of only 11000km by [...]