As it happens, my fear of heights was not my only problem in catching my train ( Read more... )

I have to catch a train at Berlin Hauptbahnhof tomorrow morning, and that worries me ( Read more... )

I travelled from Dortmund to Berlin yesterday. Trains at Dortmund were subject to delays when I got to the station just after ten. My train, due at 10:48 was marked as running five minutes late, but arrive about 35 minutes late. It got into Berlin about an hour late ( Read more... )

So, for the second Saturday in a row, I went into London.  And, for the second Saturday in a row, the return journey was less than smooth ( Read more... )

I went into London yesterday to see a play.  Turned out that wasn't as easy as it should have been ( Read more... )

Why is it that whenever I book train tickets online and have to pick the tickets up at the station, I have to go past the station several times before I finally remember to pick them up ( Read more... )

I was in Kansas City last month attending Wordlcon.  This was actually my second visit to Kansas City.  In 1984, with a couple of friends, I travelled by train from New York to Los Angeles for that year's Worldcon.  One of my friends travelled all the way with me from New York, but the other, Peter, had been visiting friends in Kansas City and ( Read more... )

Just travelled  down from Florence to Rome ( Read more... )

I took the train from Milan to Florence yesterday.

Milan Central Station (which doesn't seem very central, but was close to my hotel) is an impressive building, all white marble with statues on the roof.  Judging by  the date inscribed on it (and Wikipedia agrees), its final form was a product of the Mussolini era, and looks exactly like what an ( Read more... )

I travelled down from Hamburg to Cologne today ( Read more... )