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There is a growing clamour for railway journeys these days, rather than taking flights, more and more people are choosing to travel by rail in their down time, especially overnight.  In Vienna there is now a movement towards taking a sleeper wagon to any part of Europe or even beyond.   High speed train services have reduced travelling times considerably.  It takes 10 and a half hours from Paris to Rome with no hotel fee either.  Flight-Shame has led to more people travelling by rail, especially in Nordic countries, and longer distance sleeper routes are now opening up between European cities and beyond.   By Bazakbal

In these days of self-isolation, queues and scarcity of toilet rolls in the shops, I am reminded of my time during martial law in Poland in the late Eighties.  At that time you could live like God on 50 bucks, if you weren’t actually Polish and if there was anything to buy.  A popular pastime was to find a queue and join it, the only difference from today being that you didn’t have to keep your distance from others, in fact it was de rigueur to shake the hand of anyone you knew and their companions and the companions of the companions and so on, very Kevin Bacon.  The only thing you were likely to pick up was the buzz that there was a delivery of mustard due, or vinegar or even vodka.  Those were the best queues...               By Bazakbal