Here’s what impressed me about my three train rides today: the slow trains here are fast and the fast trains are really fast. When Matthew Foy of Railbookers in London presented me with my rail tickets and hotel vouchers, he described several of the rail segments as “local trains”, emphasizing that there was no reserved…
As part of my European itinerary, I’m going to be taking a kind of detour after my visit to Chartres and before I return to France for my three days in the wine country around Beaune. There will be several trains involved, of course: Chartres to Paris and from there to Chur in Switzerland by…
My trip to Europe gets underway in one month. I worked out the itinerary months ago, but since then, little by little, I’ve been gathering information and filling in some of the details. A good friend of mine has provided a wealth of information. He’s made more than 40 trips to France, mostly to Paris,…
Amtrak wants to replace the high-speed equipment – the Acela trainsets – now operating on the Northeast Corridor between Washington and Boston via New York City. The first Acelas began service in 2000 and, given a “shelf life” of 20 years or so, it’s indeed time for Amtrak to be thinking about new equipment. It’s…