You know that pet bone you pick with your partner all the time? The one your friends roll their eyes and refer to when they talk about you? Car vs Train travel is fast becoming one that we add to our "repertoire" as it were. Here's my case for why train travel is better ....
1. Liberation from the GPS! No anxious searching for the right street, no standing on one leg to get a satellite signal, no going round and round in circles just because "Tom" says so. Try it, it'll add a few minutes to your lifespan.
2. Catching up on your reading. A few hours of uninterrupted me time with the latest Vogue, Conde Nast Traveller, National Geographic and of course the latest Newsweek. Perhaps with a warm cappucino and chocolate bread. Heaven!
3. No parking hassles. True story - We were in Basel last weekend for a show, we parked at an underground parking lot at a nearby Migros. The show left at 5.30 pm, and we head to the car. Only we couldn't get inside! All the Migros entrances were shut, as it was closing time (naturally), luckily we caught the last guy working in the basement through the machine at the entrance! And it cost us an arm and a leg for the two hours we'd parked there.
We could have saved ourselves the trouble by taking the tram/bus to the station and back.
4. Its better for the environment. This one should probably be on top - . The same 150 miles travelled by train would have released half the CO2 that the car did.
5) Daydreaming! Settle back into your barca lounger on the little strip of beach at the back of your mansion, be an intrepid adventurer dashing to dark and dangerous corners of the earth, or be Beyonce.... all without worrying about getting flashed by a radar!
So if you still think Swiss train travel isn't that comfortable, I leave you with a 2 minute snapshot of travel in a local train in Mumbai. Anything will seem better after this!
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