This marvelous, quirky little train only travels 10-15 miles-an-hour over most of it’s entire route, which is not quite 40 miles long beginning to end. The rail line dates back...

I don’t like driving rental cars, especially outside of this country. My worst experience with a rental car off of U.S. soil was on Grand Cayman Island in the Caribbean....

On our second visit to Hungary, we took several days to visit the puszta, the great plain in the eastern part of the country. It’s 800 square kilometers and the...

After concluding our first trip to Hungary in the mid-1980s, my wife and I continued our travels by taking a Czech train from Budapest to Prague—a magnificent city, of course,...

The recent posts about VIA Rail and the wonderful food offered on their premier train, The Canadian, started me thinking back to 2011 and my trip to Russia and quite...

It’s hard to believe, but the first shinkansen, Japan’s famous bullet train, went into service between Tokyo and Osaka more than 50 years ago. Before then, conventional trains made the...

I tend to start planning my travels well in advance. I work up a rough itinerary and spend the next several weeks, or even months, tweaking it . . ....

Things are really a mess here. I had a ticket for London on one of the Eurostar trains and we departed on time just after 1:00 p.m. this afternoon. About...

I had a terrible time finding the Hotel Flora here in Venice. I knew that was going to happen because the hotel provided a very explicit set of directions which...

The Bernina Express takes you through some breath-taking scenery and all the while you can’t stop marveling at the engineering that went into the construction of this railway. Note, please,...