Why Train?

I am not a railway buff or a trainspotter, although i was excited to see three S450 locomotives on my trip from Berlin to Prague. So why travel around by train rather than plane or car?


Well to be honest i am not sure, other than it seemed like a good idea - and generally speaking it has been. The journeys have actually gone quite quickly - i was slightly worried that i would get bored on a 3-4 hour train journey but a combination of book,laptop,ipod and interesting scenery has meant that has not happened. It has been remarkably easy, everywhere has instructions in English including details of which carriage is at each end of the train (and the fact that on most journeys you need seat reservations actually makes things easier). Its certainly been a lot easier and probably quicker than flying which would have been an option on each of the journeys.

Thoroughly recommended.





*Only joking about the S450 locomotives by the way, could not find anything on wikipedia to make out i knew about trains so just made it up.