Loved reading Vitali's account of his numerous train journeys in the online version of E&T Magazine. A little bit different than my own fraught journeys in the UK...! (I have a love/hate relationship with a particular train company but I won't go into that here...)
I've actually read the article that kicked this off now, I was intrigued that Jeongdongjin Station (or indeed any station) is closer to its beach than Dawlish station is, I guess this is due to the vertical distance!
I'm glad I didn't read the original article when Lisa put up the first post - the penultimate sentence "One huge advantage of slow train journeys is that they allow you ample time to relax..." was not what I would have wanted to read having spent over an hour the evening before crammed into a luggage rack (literally) on a slow train from Bristol! (It wasn't even meant to be a slow train.) Fortunately lots of people got out at Exeter so I finally got a seat. Generally I'm pretty good at taking a Zen attitude to slow travel, but it's harder when you're bent double. Sorry, just wanted to get that off my chest - it's like hearing someone say on the radio "the joy of having a car is the freedom it gives you" when you're stuck in a 10 mile traffic jam on the M25. Mostly I do find travelling by train (fast or slow) much more relaxing than driving - certainly than driving in the badlands anywhere to the North or the East of Exeter
I've actually read the article that kicked this off now, I was intrigued that Jeongdongjin Station (or indeed any station) is closer to its beach than Dawlish station is, I guess this is due to the vertical distance!
I'm glad I didn't read the original article when Lisa put up the first post - the penultimate sentence "One huge advantage of slow train journeys is that they allow you ample time to relax..." was not what I would have wanted to read having spent over an hour the evening before crammed into a luggage rack (literally) on a slow train from Bristol! (It wasn't even meant to be a slow train.) Fortunately lots of people got out at Exeter so I finally got a seat. Generally I'm pretty good at taking a Zen attitude to slow travel, but it's harder when you're bent double. Sorry, just wanted to get that off my chest - it's like hearing someone say on the radio "the joy of having a car is the freedom it gives you" when you're stuck in a 10 mile traffic jam on the M25. Mostly I do find travelling by train (fast or slow) much more relaxing than driving - certainly than driving in the badlands anywhere to the North or the East of Exeter
