Compare
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Playground/Capture+d_____cran+2015-04-23+__+16_48_59.png.html
with
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Playground/Capture+d_____cran+2015-04-23+__+16_50_51.png.html
faster, no wear and tear on either car or driver, and working, editing photos
or napping are possible
Why should be bother with plane or car?
Amities
Philippe a happy tax-payer
Le 23 avr. 2015 à 16:21, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>>
>> One day last week I hopped on the high-speed train to Madrid to meet up with
>> a visiting
>> LUGger and see the big Winogrand exhibition. Left Alicante at 7:20, arrived
>> Madrid 9:30.
>> Back to Alicante at 19:20 that evening. A bit over two hours each way on the
>> AVE (Spanish
>> for high-speed train), 90 Euro round trip, compared to 4 hours by car at
>> roughly the same
>> cost for fuel. The civilised way to travel.
>>
>
> And far more relaxing. I was at a conference in Geneva many years ago
> and encountered a fellow who had just arrived from Vienna. He had flown in
> just that morning and looked exhausted. I asked him why he didn't take a
> night train and get a good night's sleep. He looked back in surprise and
> said that he hadn't thought of it but he should have.
>
> While waiting at the station for my departing train, a night train from
> Toulouse arrived, and I watched as the passengers gathered their luggage from
> the overhead compartments, then exiting the train and walking along after a
> good night's sleep, reading to take on the day's challenges. You can't sleep
> that comfortably on an airliner.
>
> I also got my first look at an Italian ETR-400 trainset. It wa
> beautiful, more streamlined than the French TVG Sud-Est. A few years later I
> got to walk through an ETR-450 at that Stazione Centrale in Milano that was
> fitted out for the morning run to Rome. Fresh flowers and pressed linen on
> the dining car tables. Glass panel at the engineer's compartment so you
> could see the instruments and controls.
>
> Yes, it is indeed the civilised way to travel.
>
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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