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Trans Europe Express

Submitted by Tabman on 5 October 2006 - 9:19pm | Categories:

Rendezvous on Champs-Elysees
Leave Paris in the morning on T.E.E.
Trans-Europe Express

In Vienna we sit in a late-night cafe
Straight connection, T.E.E.
Trans-Europe Express

In the 1930s, long distance train travel was the only practical way to travel around Europe. Such travel was a liberating, dare one say liberal experience (if you could afford it): a trans-continental railway system entailing multi-national co-operation. Not only did this sytem cover Europe, but it stretched to the Middle East and even beyond to India.

The romantic in me is drawn to train travel in this way. Now that air travel is coming under increasing scrutiny because of its impact on climate change, the age of the train is increasingly with us again. For anyone who wants to travel Europe by train, the excellent The Man in Seat Sixty-One website gives you the information required to do so.