Tag: greece
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Picky Man on a Train. One’s Grind Tour. 6. Hungarian Trains.
I had not, in fact said to the Hungarian cabbie, ‘Shake off pursuit at all costs, we can’t risk a running gunfight through the streets of Budapest on our way to the early morning express’. He must have misheard me. Thus arriving very promptly indeed we boarded the Hungarian RailJet. A familiar zen-like calm surrounded…
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Picky Man on a Train. One’s Grind Tour. 5. Austrian Trains.
T V Schnitzels. Was genau sind sie? Sancho was not enthused by my suggestion that whilst in Austria she find out and powerfully requested a flat white instead. What lamentable folly, what an innocent expectation to be cruelly denied this would be on a British train but the Austrian RailJet did not disappoint. Our sleek…
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Picky Man on a Train. One’s Grind Tour. 4. Greece.
Travelling via train across Greece West to East is not really possible or advisable, especially as my old pal Pavlos was prepared to drive us. After happily dropping €100 en route in a mountain village farm shop on wine, cheese and merely one of the three kinds of honey that the same man has been…
