Recapturing,the,Magic,Travel,v travel,insurance Recapturing the Magic of Travel (via Train)
Like any American, traveling occasionally is just what I love doing and I bet you share the same stuff with me. But traveling does not mean that you would be safe. Escaping from our job and other stressful activities is just something that w Torres del Paine is among the biggest of Chiles national parks, occupying almost 600,000 acres (242,000 ha) of land in the south on the border with Argentina. It is also among the most important, receiving a significant proportion of domes
There is something romantic about train travel. Its the fading grandeur of another era, dressing for cocktails in the restaurant car, porters and attendants scurrying up and down the isles with pressed clothes and silver trays, quietly sliding open polished, warm wood doors, the slight wriggle it adds to a well dressed womans walk or to your cup of tea in bone china, or to your properly made martini from the piano bar car. The Orient Express, The Trans-Siberian, The Red Arrow from St. Petersburg, authors have written these journeys, and Hollywood has glamourised them further, adding extra red lipstick, pearls, guns and intrigue.And every moment of a train journey has connotations of romance, from pulling out of the station, blowing kisses to your lover in a cloud of steam - or watching them running to catch up with the train, jumping onto the last carriage, pulled in with help from the perfect porters - or waving farewell from the window, going off to war, one person in an ocean of waving... To clandestine meetings in station cafes, stolen moments in tiny cabins, spies climbing out windows onto the tracks or the roof, to sleeping in bunk beds that have curtains and which you have to pull down from the wall. Obviously I could just go on and on.If slow food has come back, slow travel hasnt quite, yet, but actually experiencing the distance youre covering and the landscape youre passing through can be miles more pleasant than sitting, cooped up in a tiny pressurised cabin fragranced with eau de sock, amongst shiny faced people wearing sweats. If you can spare the time, travelling by train can be part of the experience of travelling. In your seat on a train youre in an enforced state of calm; moving already, there is no need for momentum but youre not there yet, so youre limited to the activities at hand: reading, writing, thinking, looking out the window and these are the kinds of things I would like time to do more of. Static, yet theres the exciting edge of anticipation, the possibility that comes with arriving somewhere new. The changing panorama outside your window more often than not provides a lot to ponder, the vast red expanses of the Australian red centre, the bright, unexpected colours of small Indian towns or the sweeping view of Mont Blanc and the alps. Places to pass through can offer a surprising rich sojourn, a way to capture the real thrill of travelling and maybe have some unexpected thoughts or encounters. Like they used to.
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