In message , at 12:28:40
on Mon, 18 Oct 2010, David Cantrell remarked:
However, comfort and sanity are also very important, which is why I
refuse to fly for short journeys. And I consider journeys to, say,
Vienna or Rome to be short.
14hrs and 19hrs (overnight too). That's not what I'd call short

An awful lot of that time is spent asleep so doesn't really count.

So you use sleeper trains?

It's "dead time" whether you spend it on a train or at home.

It's still time away from home and family, and while I sleep 8+ hours a
night, there's plenty to do late at night and early in the morning
(getting the kids settled down for the night, then off to school, for
example).

Last time I took the train to Vienna, I planned it so that I got to
Paris in time to have a late dinner with friends there, to Munich the
next morning to meet a friend for breakfast and beer, and then arriving
in Vienna for lunch. Coming back the other way, I stopped off overnight
in Zurich to, again, visit friends, and also because there was a show on
at the Kunsthaus I wanted to see.

The line between Vienna and Zurich is *very* pretty, and I strongly
recommend doing it one day.

This sounds like a holiday. I mainly travel on business.
--
Roland Perry