Three years ago I was in Paris and having something to eat in one of the several street corner cafés within a two-minute walk from my hotel. It was a...

Americans don’t understand high-speed trains—where they work and where they don’t. And why. And no wonder! A very small percentage of Americans haveever seen a high-speed train, much less traveled...

      Paris, like many other cities, has a program providing the occasional use of a bicycle at no charge. As you can see from the photo I took...

Assuming you’re a passenger rail enthusiast, you can click here for a story about two new high-speed lines that just went into service in France. One is a 187-mile run...

My last night in Montsoreau was a delight. I invited Françoise to dinner at a restaurant just down the street from the three guestroom B&B she owns and runs. She...

I’ve gotten a pretty good look at the vaunted French rail system over the past week, taking a total of five trains getting from Paris to Chalon-sur-Saône and, yesterday, from...

UPDATE: My computer problems seem to be dissipating all by themselves, so I am cautiously optimistic that I’ll be able to continue with these posts. At any rate, we shall...

  Talk to people about high-speed rail and you quickly discover that most Americans have a very fuzzy picture of how it works and what it can do. Many people...

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...

For me, planning a trip is almost as much fun as the actual travel itself.  I enjoy putting together itineraries, coming up with interesting routings for the train portions, looking...