Larry Colen wrote: >On 5/4/2010 12:51 PM, AlunFoto wrote: >> 2010/5/4 John Sessoms<[email protected]>: >>> >>> If I was in Europe, I don't think I'd ever fly. >>> >>> Trains are a lot more fun, and in Europe you can actually get somewhere on >>> 'em. >> >> Let's see... Oslo -> London by train... >> >> Route will go through: >> Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, and UK. >> >> No central itinerary planner, will have to do it by studying the >> national railways of at least 5 countries/languages. >> >> Longest stretch I can book from Oslo is to Gothenburg, Sweden. It >> costs about as much as a low-fare airline ticket to London, takes 3 >> hours 50 minutes, and I haven't even traveled _one quarter_ of the way >> yet. > >And, without looking at a map, I'll guess that the distance is somewhere >between that of San Francisco to LA, or maybe as far as Seattle.
London to Oslo is about 1100 miles as the crow (or cormorant) flies. A lot of water in between: Makes putting down train tracks difficult :) Time to start digging a tunnel... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
