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The Little Yellow Train

All Posts | France

Wow! What a Ride!

ByJim Loomis 04/26/201804/28/2018

Deep down I always felt that adding a dozen days to my Washington trip to see and ride The Little Yelllow Train was a real stretch. And, yes, I know I’m fresh off the experience and pumped up, but it WAS worth it!   The rail strike screwed up my day after the ride and…

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Next: Le Petit Train Jaune.
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Next: Le Petit Train Jaune.

ByJim Loomis 04/25/201804/26/2018

The better part of the day yesterday was spent traveling from Carcassonne to Vernet-les-Bains by way of Narbonne and Perpignan. It was another bi-level TGV that brought me to Perpignan and that magnificent train sat there in the railway station, engine idling, waiting to load passengers for Barcelona. The damn thing was mocking me. Once…

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All Posts | France

On the (Rail) Road Again.

ByJim Loomis 04/23/201804/25/2018

As I’ve mentioned in earlier posts, there is a strike by railway workers underway here in France and, as with most things French, it’s being conducted in a uniquely French way. The union members–that’s pretty much everybody–don’t want to paralyze the country, so they only walk out a few days each week. And some trains…

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Know Your Booking Limits.
All Posts | France

Know Your Booking Limits.

ByJim Loomis 03/18/201803/20/2018

I’m quite comfortable making my own reservations for travel within the U.S or Canada. Europe is a different matter. I’m not going to travel literally halfway around the world at considerable expense only to find my itinerary screwed up because I’ve made an amateur’s mistake. I really want my European travel experience to go smoothly….

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