I hate graffiti, and I can tell you that they don’t seem to be coping with it very well in Germany. It’s everywhere. All along the route from Hamburg to the German border on the way to Copenhagen, I saw new noise-abatement walls along the tracks. On some stretches, we went roaring past crews at…
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…
I’m staying at Le Grand Monarque here in Chartres and, just after breakfast this morning, I asked the woman at the reception desk if there was a photo store nearby. She looked at me, somewhat askance, and said, “Monsieur! C’est lundi aujourd’hui!” Yes, today is indeed Monday and that means just a few shops and…
Yesterday was a travel day … a rail travel day. The first leg was the Eurostar from London to Paris and, unlike other trains, there is real security for this one. Luggage goes through the machine, pockets emptied into a tray, walk through the metal detector and … BEEP! … my titanium knee sets it…