I’m going to note here some of the resources we’ve found useful in planning the trip. Firstly I have to mention the remarkable Man in Seat Sixty-One website. This is run by Mark Smith, an individual rail travel enthusiast, who has collected together an enormous amount of helpful information about travelling by rail in Europe (and […]
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Is it really greener to fly?
June 28th, 2009 by Chris · 2 Comments · climate change, flights, trains
Until the other week, I’d assumed that it was completely clear that flying (particularly long-haul, but all flying to some extent) was a really Bad Thing in terms of its contribution to climate change. I’ve not studied the climate change science in much detail, but I constantly hear from those who have that flying is […]
Callum’s list of things to do on a boring lllllllllooooonnnnngggg distance train
June 26th, 2009 by callum · 3 Comments · Greece, trains
write a story that has the same number of chapters as stations you go through. As soon as you stop at a station you have to start a new chapter. eat a sandwich by taking a bite whenever you pass a hill.
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Getting on board
June 21st, 2009 by jane · 6 Comments · Greece, trains
I’ve just been to see The Age of Stupid, a very hard hitting film about climate change. It’s left me wondering, yet again, how we manage to change attitudes, and fast. I want people to read our blog here and be inspired to not fly and to go for that big train ride adventure once […]
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Train tracks calling
June 18th, 2009 by jane · 3 Comments · Greece, trains
We don’t have a car and we haven’t flown for 8 years (except when I went to Shetland for work in November, and again in May :)) We use trains a lot. I mean a lot. But I haven’t done a grand European train voyage for years. In the summer of 1989, having spent a week on […]
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