The theme letter for our travel pics this week is R – for Railways. To end this week, a sombre reflection – from near Kanchanaburi, Thailand. This railway station is in the village of Wang Po, just a few kilometres from the JEATH museum (which memorialises Allied POWs who were imprisoned there), the Bridge over the…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is R – for Railways. For Saturday, it’s Wellington, in New Zealand, and its famous Cable Car. Rising to 120 metres above Lambton Key, the Cable Car gives magnificent views, and access to the city’s Botanical Gardens. Strictly speaking, Wellington’s service is not a cable car but…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is R – for Railways. For Friday, it’s Earls Court station in London – a name that may not mean much to younger readers, but which was emblematic to Aussies of my age. Earls Court was where thousands of Aussies and Kiwis made their home in England…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is R – for Railways. It should have come as no surprise to see the Metro trains of Rome covered in graffiti – after all, the very word ‘graffiti’ is Italian (from graffiato, to scratch into … ) but I have to say, I wasn’t expecting a…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is R – for Railways. For Wednesday, we return to one of our favourite cities – San Francisco – and its iconic cable cars. Back in the 1870s and 1880s, the city boasted 23 cable car lines – now there are only three. And they are…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is R – for Railways. For Tuesday, it’s a MagLev train in Shanghai. MagLev, or Magnetic Levitation, involves using magnets of opposite polarity to allow a train to travel frictionlessly without actually touching the track – and using that magnetic repulsion to actually drive the train…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is R – for Railways. To start the week off, a station that looks like a classic ‘Victorian’ structure – but with state-of-the-art 21st century trains. Gare du Nord, or North Station, is the busiest station in Europe – and is the station for trains to Northern France and…
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