http://www.liberalreview.com/issues/trains The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.liberalreview.com/content/2006/10/trans-europe-express <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17frhG4sA-8">Rendezvous on Champs-Elysees<br /> Leave Paris in the morning on T.E.E.<br /> Trans-Europe Express</p> <p>In Vienna we sit in a late-night cafe<br /> Straight connection, T.E.E.<br /> Trans-Europe Express</a></p> <p>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 href="//www.seat61.com/OrientExpress.htm#heyday">a trans-continental railway system entailing multi-national co-operation. </a> Not only did this sytem cover Europe, but it stretched to the <a href="http://www.seat61.com/Syria.htm">Middle East</a> and even beyond to India.</p> <p>The romantic in me is drawn to train travel in this way. Now that air travel is coming under increasing scrutiny because of its <a href="http://www.libdems.org.uk/campaigns/new-tory-labour.html">impact on climate change</a>, the age of the train is increasingly with us again. For anyone who wants to travel Europe by train, the excellent <a href="http://www.seat61.com/index.html">The Man in Seat Sixty-One</a> website gives you the information required to do so.</p> <br class="clear" /> http://www.liberalreview.com/content/2006/10/trans-europe-express#comments environment Europe trains Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:19:38 +0100 Tabman 592 at http://www.liberalreview.com