Trains on the Brain Savour the journey & travel by train
Category “Opinion”
Google Maps British Train Journeys with Trainline, but not perfectly…
There’s been a fair bit of fuss this week about the new service Google Maps has hatched with train ticket re-seller the Trainline, enabling people to map British train journeys with accurate timetables and route mapping. Obviously it’s a great idea (what took them so long anyway?), motivated in part by the London 2012 Olympics, [...]
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Airport shuttles & transfers, more air travel annoyance
There are so many reasons to choose traveling by train over flying. You generally travel in greater comfort, you can take in the landscape and get a much better sense of the geography – human or otherwise -of the places you’re travelling through and to. The food and drink options are usually superior, you’re placed [...]
British Rail Rants & Suggestions
I’m delighted to be hosting consumer travel blogging A-Lister Darren Cronian in this guest post on the many shortcomings of the British rail network. Besides Travel Rants and his local blog My Life in Leeds, Darren provides a great service to the travel blogging community in Europe by co-organising next week’s Travel Blog Camp with [...]
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