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I first came to enjoy train travel 25 years ago when I first arrived in Europe with a Eurail card and a head full of ideas and not much of a clue. Oh how differently I'd do things today.
There was camaraderie in those days sleeping head to foot with a bunch of other backpackers railing it down to the Greek Islands. It's something you just don't experience flying on discount airlines.
Railway travel provides a number of advantages over other forms of transport. Firstly you see the landscape as you are passing by on a train. How many times have you been sitting on a plane thinking "I wonder what's going on down there." Plane travel divorces you from the process of travelling and while plane travel has obvious advantages, is travel about the destination or the prcoess of getting to the destination?
A number of people have said this is the difference between being a traveller and going on vacation.
Then there are buses. I've been on a bus from Adelaide to Darwin which I think is 3200 km. Well never again! While you do see the landscape if you're in a window seat, the sheer lack of room just makes this as uncomfortable as a plane but the agony goes on and on. And if you've travelled in a bus in Thailand not only is there pain but there is also fear.
That brings us to the sea. Really, cruising is just train travel for the rich, and also the lazy. Although there's nothing wrong with that. I spent several very enjoyable weeks on a cruise ship but when you find you spend more time in the bars and the restaurants than on shore there has to be a better way.
