Taking a train from London to Venice

[Gattonero]

London to Venice, what about Edinburgh to London or Cardiff to London?

Sexit and Wexit are up next.....

For the same money you may as well travel to Europe and have some cash left!

[colker]

I lived in Italy from 1987 to 2015 when I was building frames there.

I flew to London two times and took the train through the Chunnel, both ways, once.

On the train, it was 2002, I took regular trains from Milan to Brussels, only because I was formerly a student in Belgium and knew the Brussels train station.

From Brussels I took the Eurostar train to the first stop in the UK after the Chunnel, which is Ashford-Kent.

The train wasn't high speed in UK at the time and might have only been high speed in France.

The train stopped right before the Chunnel.

Then as soon as it started moving, migrants started climbing over the double rows of chain link fences along the tracks, towards the train.

I met a friend in Ashford-Kent and took a bus (coach as they say in UK) the rest of the way to London.

I did the same on the return and took a bus from London to Ashford-Kent and boarded the train there.

In Ashford-Kent I was trying to use a pay phone and I wasn't familiar with British coins, so I was looking at them closely.

An attractive British woman, driving a convertible Aston-Martin, approached me and said, "I see you're struggling with the money. Would you like to use my mobile?"

I think she was flirting with me.

Despite the car, she was wearing a uniform that looked like she might have worked somewhere in the train station.

Is that true? It sounds like a dream. Anyways... cool story.

[Octave]

Fly. It's cheaper, faster and more enjoyable.

Footprint per person factoring in average occupancy (i.e. full/empty seats) for this time of year

CO2: 42,9kg (train) vs 271,3 (plane) - 632% more by plane
Gasoline: 49,2 liters vs 114,0 liters - 231% more by plane
Particulate matter: 12,9g vs 24,6g - 190% more by plane
NO2: 112,2g vs 1140,0g - 1016% more by plane
Nonmethane hydrocarbons: 38,1g vs 125,8g - 330% more by plane


Just sayin'

EcoPassenger

[72gmc]

London to Edinburgh, Edinburgh to Wales (Llandudno) and Wales to London: we did that! Would do it again, except Llandudno wouldn't be our Welsh destination. Reserve first class, be ready for Wi-Fi that's pretty weak. I was staring out the window all the time we were in Wales.