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The Northern Belle Day Train Review
No matter how you look at it, there’s something ineffably strange about taking a day trip on the Orient Express. We’re heading to Edinburgh Waverley, our local station, to sit on the Northern Belle train for four hours to be stuffed like a Foie Gras goose en route to York, where we’ll stroll around listlessly [...]
Train Fares, Tickety Splits, Coco Pops & Ketchup
A while back I asked the vexed question of just why it is so hard to find good deals for European train tickets online. It’s a subject which is dear to the hearts of the enterprising folks at clued-up rail ticketing agents Loco2, so their Executive Director Kate Andrews has gamely stepped up to the [...]
Night Train from Cairo & other Ancient Egyptian Ruins
Today’s guest post comes from Katrina Stovold of Tour Absurd, who found that Egypt’s trains were just as ruinous as the country’s more celebrated ancient treasures… Egypt is a land of unimaginable riches in the forms of art, culture, history, language, architecture, and agriculture. Although our trip was just over a week in length, we’d [...]
