Facebook Twitter Pinterest Take the coastal track in Calabria, Italy. The site was founded by Mark Smith in 2001, when cheap flights were booming and the typical seat61 user was, in his words, “afraid of flying, medically restricted from flying or particularly liked train travel”. Photograph: yvon52/Getty Images/iStockphoto2 But rail travel takes longer …Not always. This year, more of us will embrace rail travel, not just for environmental reasons, but because it’s fun. If poring over endless rail timetables is not your idea of fun, fear not – a growing number of tour operators are incorporating rail travel into their packages.

Source: The Guardian January 27, 2020 12:52 UTC