Womble Town
Saturday, August 15th, 2009While I freely admit to having a bit of a boner over trains, being forced to take a bus really makes you realise why. My poor cycled out knees ache when forced to stay in one position for too long and with seats this tight I cannot even get into my usual sleep sitting up position. Maybe this love of the locomotive stems back to when I was a kid and our family won a trip in the cab of a steam train. Or that there are so few trains back home which is such a shame as they really are the best form of transport. It just feels so much more civilised than being herded into some metal tube. Another advantage that trains have is that once you board at a usually central station it just goes. None of this tedious getting out of town through traffic and intersections just two rails pointing in the direction you want to go. Even just boarding is fun. Stand on the platform as a mighty piece of engineering pulls in. The immaculately presented providnista’s stand ready to welcome everyone aboard. Once underway there is so much more freedom to move around and looking out the window is far more accessible than a bus and more interesting than a plane. [read on]
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