Following up to d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne) wrote:
>> while being
>> taken to places for too short a time to fit in a long stop at a
>> prearranged tourist trap.
>
>I would never do something like that either.
Hey, we agree, Do you get a warm glow?
>> Last fairly long train ride was returning from walking the Thames path
>> (glad im not doing it right now!). Before that I did a couple of
>> discounted trips to York and Bath
>
>I wouldn't call them long train journeys, any more than I'd call a two
>hour car journey long. For me, I'd say a journey over three hours begins
>to feel long.
thats the longest Ive done, sorry to dissapoint you. They seemed long
to us. (The return from York took about 12 hours BTW, does that
count?)
>> (on season ticket loyalty scheme)
>> the York one failed to return due to some problem, had to take the
>> next day off work. We are not much interested in british cities as
>> leisure destinations so trains are fairly irrelevant to us.
>
>Oh, that's right. You have the impression trains only go to cities.
Fast convenient trains go to cities from cities.
You have the impression "wild" countryside is other than rarely
convenient for stations. (Rannoch Moor is one exception, assuming you
want to be stranded on Rannoch Moor). Try going dawn birdwatching on
Sheppey this Sunday morning by train.....
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Mike
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