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Give Me a Train Over a Plane Any Day - It's Simply the Best Way to Travel
By Griff Rhys Jones/ Travel/ Rail-Journeys/ The Telegraph/ telegraph.co.uk
"Sorry if you are reading this on an over-packed, late commuter train with failed heating, but, for me, trains are still an unbeatable romantic kick. It starts at the station. I remember leaving the art'otel in Amsterdam on a southbound Eurostar heading for Antwerp.
It wasn’t just the mist rising off the canals and the elegant frosty concourse filled with cheese and flowers, it was the seamless travel. No teeth-grinding queues and shuffling barriers. No boarding pass inspections three times in 10 minutes. No duty frees with silly winding paths and perfume stench. I turned up my collar, strode to my platform, greeted my massive and powerful conveyance and got on it. I felt like Jason Bourne. Ludlum wrote those adventures at a time when trains were still the only way to cover continents, full of spies and old ladies solving murders......"
Rail is the best way to see some of the world's most beautiful landscapes Credit: Getty
Richard
By Griff Rhys Jones/ Travel/ Rail-Journeys/ The Telegraph/ telegraph.co.uk
"Sorry if you are reading this on an over-packed, late commuter train with failed heating, but, for me, trains are still an unbeatable romantic kick. It starts at the station. I remember leaving the art'otel in Amsterdam on a southbound Eurostar heading for Antwerp.
It wasn’t just the mist rising off the canals and the elegant frosty concourse filled with cheese and flowers, it was the seamless travel. No teeth-grinding queues and shuffling barriers. No boarding pass inspections three times in 10 minutes. No duty frees with silly winding paths and perfume stench. I turned up my collar, strode to my platform, greeted my massive and powerful conveyance and got on it. I felt like Jason Bourne. Ludlum wrote those adventures at a time when trains were still the only way to cover continents, full of spies and old ladies solving murders......"
Rail is the best way to see some of the world's most beautiful landscapes Credit: Getty
Richard
