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While we might rely on passenger trains to get us to work everyday, in Cambodia people are lucky to see just four trains in service per month– that is if they don’t get derailed or break down (a common occurrence). The busted trains tend to travel at walking pace and the railways constructed during the French [...]
Now let’s just get something straight. If you want a train in your basement, you’ll need two things, according to the guy with a train in his basement: 1) To be completely insane. 2) To have an amazing wife. This is the inconceivable DIY project of ‘train-obsessed nut’, model train manufacturer and father of three living [...]
Little do London tube passengers know as they travel through the maze of the underworld, what may lie just on the other side of a wall. As crowds of vintage and antique lovers leave the train at Notting Hill Gate for a day of treasure hunting at Portobello market, they’re probably unaware of the most [...]
You’d have to see it to believe it, so before I explain anything, just take a look … This is the Maeklong Market, west of Bangkok, a decades old place of trade in Thailand. Vendors were so comfortable here that when the Maeklong Railway built a commuter train to Bangkok running right through the middle [...]
All aboard the Badoit Express! Just a few weeks ago on the RER line C commuter train into Paris, the sparkling water brand Badoit decided to surprise tired commuters on their way home with an astonishing and unusual gastronomic treat. Two-star Michelin chef of the Paris Mandarin Oriental and judge of the French version of [...]
Paris and London: two indisputable capitals of cool. So why not make the connection between them be the coolest travel experience on the planet? Sure, when it launched in 1994, it was the most-talked about way to travel but in 2012, it seems to have lost its shine; it’s glamour, and I always get the [...]
I spent my Saturday afternoon, avoiding the Parisian summer crowds and tiptoeing along the train
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Tonight in Paris, tens of thousands of people dressed in white, will converge at a secret location,
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This is so brilliantly British, but I’m warning you now, you probably won’t be able to
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Ever since school, I feel like I’ve been continuing my own education; on the internet, with
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I finally watched Life of Pi last night and was pleasantly surprised to learn that the hero of the
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Promise you won’t tell anyone…! 1. L’Etage de Pastavino – Saint Germain’s
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Welcome to Niaqornat, Northwest Greenland. Population: 59. Dogs outnumber people in this surreal
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What good is an iPhone if it can’t take you to Paris?! Or an iPad that can’t take you
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Here’s one they left out of the history textbooks. A recent French film, Free Men, brought to
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People choose to live in some pretty baffling places, like those towns sitting at the base of
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Somewhere out there is an undiscovered doodling prodigy! A Reddit user recently walked into their
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You may recall we recently discovered Kowloon City, the Hong Kong ‘historical
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