When snow brings transport systems elsewhere to a halt, Swiss mountain railways keep running — calmly, predictably, and almost boringly on time. This isn’t luck, and it isn’t just “Swiss efficiency” as a cliché. It’s the result of hard geography forcing honest engineering, backed by culture, governance, and long-term thinking. Here’s why Alpine railways in […]
Image (C) Foster + Partners Florence is one of Europe’s most rail-dependent cities, sitting squarely on Italy’s north–south high-speed axis. Yet for years, travellers have heard about a new high-speed railway station that somehow never seems to open. So what actually happened to Florence’s planned high-speed station — and why do high-speed trains still arrive […]
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Image (C) Barcelo Hotels Canfranc Estación Set high in the Spanish Pyrenees near the French border, Canfranc Estación, a Royal Hideaway Hotel occupies one of the most extraordinary railway buildings in Europe. Opened in 1928, the vast station was designed as a grand international interchange between France and Spain, complete with customs halls, hotel facilities, […]
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(AI generated image, prompt – “French TGV train”) Toulouse: a transport city built for the air, not the rails Toulouse is one of Europe’s most important transport cities — but its global reputation is rooted firmly in aviation, not rail ✈️. As the home of Airbus and a major aerospace research hub, the city is […]
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🚄 Karst Landscapes Made Easy Travelling by train from Hong Kong to Guilin is one of the easiest and most satisfying ways to reach China’s most famous natural scenery. Fast, comfortable, and surprisingly simple, the journey swaps skyscrapers for limestone peaks in just a few hours 🌄. If you’re planning to see the Li River […]
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Why we use AI-generated images – and why we’re open about it Travel is visual. Whether someone is researching a city they already know, planning a future trip, or simply exploring somewhere new, images matter. They give context, atmosphere, scale, and emotion in a way that text alone simply cannot. For many years, we ran […]
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The Train of the Clouds crossing the La Polvorilla Viaduct Image (C) Visit Argentina The Train of the Clouds (Tren a las Nubes) is one of the most exciting experiences in Argentina because it combines engineering audacity, Andean drama, and pure altitude spectacle in a single journey 😮💨🏔️. Running through the remote high Andes of […]
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🚗 Driving the Atlantic Road (Atlanterhavsveien): How to Do It, With or Without a Car The Atlantic Road is one of Norway’s most celebrated drives, a short but dramatic stretch of highway that leaps between small islands and skerries on elegant bridges, with the North Atlantic crashing on either side. It’s often described as a […]
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If you hire a car in parts of the Middle East and something goes catastrophically wrong, you may hear the word diya used very quickly. Often translated as “blood money”, diya is a form of court-ordered compensation paid to the family of a person who dies as a result of an accident. It is not […]
Continue reading Diya, Rental Cars, and Passengers: What You’re Actually Liable ForManchester and Birmingham are often compared for good reason. Both are large, post-industrial English cities with similar populations, similar economic challenges after the decline of manufacturing, and similar ambitions to reinvent themselves as modern regional capitals. Yet when it comes to urban transport, one difference stands out sharply: Manchester’s Metrolink is widely seen as a […]
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