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Holidays On Trains: Why We Started This Travelogue
Russian train - courtesy
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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 |
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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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