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“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.”
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Is Euro Rail travel a real alternative to short haul flights? |
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In the past few weeks I've been travelling to a number of European cities evaluating the pros & cons of train verses plane - to short haul destinations.
With 80% of the total journey time of an average short haul flight spent on the ground there are some interesting comparisons to be made.
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Abigail King Abigail King is an experienced journalist and photographer who works with both print and online media. She has circled the globe twice, camped in the snows of Kilimanjaro and Patagonia and tracked down tigers, turtles and panda bears. She’s then had a hot shower and embraced the city life of New York, Rio, Paris and Tokyo.
Abigail has interviewed Michelin-starred chefs, Formula One Race Engineers, aid workers, ministers, Tlingit elders and plenty of people on the street. Her...
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"In 1992 I was invited to join the inaugural flight of Richard Branson's Vintage Airways, an airline operating holiday flights from Orlando to Key West using two restored Douglas DC3 aircraft offering 1940's style service, livery, uniforms and experience—one of their signature moments was the excited announcement from the flight deck that they had just heard on the radio, news of the Japanese surrender in the Pacific. I remember the thing that surprised me most—besides Japan tenaciously holding on for another 50 years—was having to walk steeply uphill to my seat."
Alastair McKenzie, 'What's Changed In 60 years of Civil Aviation?', The Director, Oct 07
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