In praise of slow travel...
19 October 2010
With the updated and revised paperback version of On the Slow Train due out next spring, I have been collecting travellers' tales of people who experienced new pleasures through slow travel over the summer. Many of us may have been incovenienced by the great ash cloud that disrupted flights earlier in the year, but I have been hearing wonderful stories of people who found unexpected joys on the byways and branch lines of continental Europe...
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