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Category “Books & Music”

Festival Express: Canadian Trains, Movies and Music

Tuesday, 13 September, 2011

In the midst of packing for my two week trans-Canadian rail trip with Via Rail and the Rocky Mountaineer I popped into Oxfam and happened across the perfect DVD to get me in the correct mental state for the journey. Festival Express In 1970 an enterprising rock promoter launched the Festival Express, a series of [...]

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Tales from the Fast Trains: Book review & competition

Friday, 26 August, 2011

ENRIES FOR THIS COMPETITION HAVE NOW CLOSED. I’LL CONTACT THE WINNERS SOON! The growth of budget airline travel has inspired a few great travel books in recent years. Philip Norman’s Ryanland charts a fun experiment in visiting all of those obscure cities on the Ryanair routemap which you can get to for the price of a [...]

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