Interrail and a Glorious Return to the Grand Tour ; Adrian Lowery Makes Use of Some Great New Rail Bargains for a Round- Europe Adventure
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WOKEN by a polite knock, I groggily opened the door to a gentle 'Good morning' from the Austrian sleeper-car attendant.
He passed in a tray of breakfast and withdrew, saying: 'We are 40 minutes from Venice, sir.' Plonking the tray of fresh rolls, coffee, juice and yogurt on the end of my bed, I flipped up the blind. And as the lush Veneto fields and vineyards rolled by, I pondered how to spend the morning on arrival.See the full content of this document
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Interrail and a Glorious Return to the Grand Tour ; Adrian Lowery Makes Use of Some Great New Rail Bargains for a Round- Europe Adventure
This wasn't the highlight of my rail tour around Europe - there were too many great cities en route. But anyone who has romanticised about a European Grand Tour, or envied Albert Finney's hair-netted Hercule Poirot rumbling overnight to Istanbul, will understand that it was a signature moment.
InterRail - the pan-European system that has long administered the bargain rail passes so bel...See the full content of this document
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