Trains
I love long train rides with a desperate love, but I haven't been on one since 2004, so I've been feeling deprived. So I ride trains on the Net.
Thanks to 365postcards there is this realtime snip of the countryside between St. Petersburg and Moscow. Watching that, I get as mesmerized as I do on trainrides, with my face pressed to the window.
And here is another one that I found immensely cool-- a stop-action, train's-eye view of a trip across Estonia.
And this one shows a train from the Estonian countryside.
The CityNightLine from Berlin to Moscow is really nifty--glimpses of not only scenery but the people you encounter on the train, with brief conversations. Over a thousand miles, five borders, and including the stop to widen the train wheels.
Back in 1972, I rode the Orient Express several times between Paris and Vienna. I only had a cheapo Brownie camera, and I was too poor to get a sleeper car, so I was often squashed between other people for the duration and didn't see much out the windows. So sometimes I check YouTube for train rides over the same routes.
I never made it east from Vienna, but I love this train ride from Beograd to Istanbul.
I've never been to China, but I love this ride between Beijing and Lhasa. This one, on the same route, focuses on the people who ride the train.
Thanks to 365postcards there is this realtime snip of the countryside between St. Petersburg and Moscow. Watching that, I get as mesmerized as I do on trainrides, with my face pressed to the window.
And here is another one that I found immensely cool-- a stop-action, train's-eye view of a trip across Estonia.
And this one shows a train from the Estonian countryside.
The CityNightLine from Berlin to Moscow is really nifty--glimpses of not only scenery but the people you encounter on the train, with brief conversations. Over a thousand miles, five borders, and including the stop to widen the train wheels.
Back in 1972, I rode the Orient Express several times between Paris and Vienna. I only had a cheapo Brownie camera, and I was too poor to get a sleeper car, so I was often squashed between other people for the duration and didn't see much out the windows. So sometimes I check YouTube for train rides over the same routes.
I never made it east from Vienna, but I love this train ride from Beograd to Istanbul.
I've never been to China, but I love this ride between Beijing and Lhasa. This one, on the same route, focuses on the people who ride the train.