Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 05.06.08 | 4:37 PM ET
Interesting bit in a Guardian story about train travel in Iran: “Scheduled for completion later this year is a line that will run from Kerman in the south-east to Quetta across the Pakistani border. When finished, it will present a mouth-watering prospect: uninterrupted rail travel from Europe to the subcontinent.”
Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
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John M. Edwards 05.06.08 | 7:36 PM ET
Hi Jim:
This is like a dream, a train from Europe to the Subcontinent! Ah, the glory days of train travel, lounging like a sleepy gecko on the Orient Express, with rich burghers with bowler hats and fabulous mustaches, and exquisite ladies with lapdogs and peal earrings.
Way Agatha Christie.
Let’s bring back dining cars and smoking, and see the world in style—through a soot-lined windowof a stolid train leading to nowhere. . . .
John M. Edwards