From: Larry Colen
On 5/4/2010 1:12 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
> 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...
>
>
Or about LA to Seattle.
I was referring to the Oslo to Gothenburg leg of the trip.
Or you might be able to find a website to help with planning your itinerary.
http://www.seat61.com/Norway.htm
Mainly devoted to going the other direction, but it does include Oslo ->
London. I guess they figure you might want to travel the other direction
to get back to London if nothing else.
I'd fly TO Europe or to England, but once there going to all those other
different places isn't really so much a hardship for me as it is an
opportunity.
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