I had an email today from a friend who’s planning a trip to Europe with his wife and there’s a lot of train travel involved, including both the Bernina Express and the Glacier Express. Each traverses some spectacularly beautiful Swiss countryside and are very much worth doing. I rode both trains probably 20 years ago…
I’ve enjoyed overnight train travel ever since I was a kid and even today always look forward to those experiences. When I was planning my most recent trip to Europe, I asked the folks at Railbookers in London to schedule me on one of the overnight sleepers en route to visit friends in Oslo. And…
Over the past few years, in what could almost be considered a crash program, the Spanish have tied together almost all of their major cities into AVE*, Spain’s high-speed rail system. So how’s it all working out? Well, according to the National Statistics Institute, the month of January saw a new transportation milestone: 1.9 million…
I’m starting to think about another European trip. By the time I’m ready to go I’ll have accumulated enough American Airlines miles and getting to London won’t be a problem. So it’s from there that my actual planning is starting. London is where my most recent trip began this past Fall. I have a favorite…