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Holidays On Trains:  Why We Started This Travelogue
 

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Russian train - courtesy  FreeDigitalPhotos.net
  In February 2009 my husband Ian and I decided we needed to start travelling before we got too old and decrepit.  After all, who knows what is laying around the corner for each of us to deal with in regard to health issues. 

Ian has been a train enthusiast all his life so it seemed quite natural for us to want to go on some train tours of romantic far-away places.

The first train tour that popped into our heads was a Trans Siberian Railway holiday across Russia from Vladivostok to St Petersburg. 

Now we don't have a huge budget for travelling.  We have two young adult children who will need help to buy their first homes at some stage in the not too distant future so we don't want to spend too much on ourselves when they will need helping out.  Plus, the current state of the world economy would make any spendthrift think twice before lavishing big dollars on luxuries such as grand holidays.

The Trans Siberian Railway trip is a big adventure and needs a lot of planning so we are going on that trip in the northern summer in 2010.  We thought this year, 2009, was just a bit too soon to be ready by.

In the meantime we have travelled on The Ghan, a train trip right through the centre of Australia in a vertical direction.  The Ghan trip went ahead April 2009.

This web site will tell the stories of the train tours on The Ghan and the Trans Siberian plus the many other train tours that will follow on after (we hope). 

Ian beside the Ghan in Darwin
Ian beside the Ghan in Darwin


 
It is difficult to find detailed information on all the nitty gritty things that we need to know to plan our train holidays so we're going searching for it. 

In order to help others, this web site will recount our personal story so that other travellers can learn from our experiences.  For some it will be too much detail.  For others it will be perfect.  At the very least there will be plenty of photographs.

We are right at the beginning of a long travelling journey so we will be able to let you know what worked well for us as well as how to avoid the pitfalls we encounter.

If you have been on some exciting train tours please tell us about them.  Contact us here. At the moment we are particularly interested in finding people who've done the Trans Siberian Railway adventure.  We welcome your hints and tips so we can maximise our holiday value yet minimise the cost of it.  We can then also help others with this advice.

Come along with us on The Ghan and  the Trans Siberian  journeys
 

 

Jean and Ian Morrison

 


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