Travels around the Continent
"I'm sitting in the railway stationGot a ticket to my destination...Homeward bound" (Paul Simon) Monday 12th September 1983Not having a bed for the night on the train from Bucharest meant that I did not manage much sleep. At about 7am the train reached Timișoara, the city where six years later the Romanian revolution first began. …
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“One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” (Henry Miller) Wednesday 7th September 1983The train from Budapest crossed into Romania at about midnight. The first noticeable difference was that the beer crate that had been freely dispensing all evening had to be locked away, but not before the Romanian borders …
"Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly." (Frederic Chopin) Thursday 1st September 1983That morning a I caught one of the frequent trains from Munich for the 90 minute journey to Salzburg. Upon arrival, I found that Salzburg station was divided into separate German and Austrian sections and that to leave the German …
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"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." (Chinese proverb - attributed to Lao-Tze) Saturday 27th August 1983The previous evening I had gone out for a supposedly swift after-work drink with my best mate to wish me well on my journey. However, it was not quite so swift and it certainly was …
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"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." (Benjamin Disraeli) After leaving university and settling into relatively well paid employment, for my main holiday I had travelled with friends in successive years on trips to Canada, India and the USA. However, because in those days …
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