{"id":78400,"date":"2018-04-06T17:30:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T17:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=78400"},"modified":"2021-01-27T18:07:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T18:07:53","slug":"adventures-on-night-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=78400","title":{"rendered":"Adventures on night trains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It would be a pity if night trains in Europe disappeared.&nbsp; It would reduce choice for travellers.&nbsp; That is why the week of action starting today organised by Train Tracks Europe &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/back-on-track.eu\/action-week-april-2018\/\">https:\/\/back-on-track.eu\/action-week-april-2018\/<\/a> &#8211; is important.&nbsp; The campaign seeks to preserve the remaining night trains and bring back many of those which have been withdrawn in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Night trains may not be everybody\u2019s cup of tea \u2013 and in fact on one or two nobody got a cup of tea! \u2013 but I\u2019ll miss them if they go.&nbsp; And perhaps more to the point, they will reduce my options for getting across Europe and not just for going on holiday for attending business meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever used them on holiday.&nbsp; But that\u2019s just because I\u2019m a lazy holiday-maker.&nbsp; If you can\u2019t get a tiny bit of luxury, a comfortable bed in a nice hotel on holiday, when can you get it?&nbsp; Out with campsites, back-to-nature, do-it-yourself hostels and anything with Airbnb in the title!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I digress.&nbsp; Night trains have worked for me when going to meetings and conferences in Europe.&nbsp; Take Barcelona.&nbsp; I was invited to speak at a mid-morning press conference by a group of residents living under the flight path to Barcelona airport.&nbsp; Left London on Eurostar late afternoon, change in Paris; in Barcelona for breakfast.&nbsp; Admittedly my hosts struggled to welcome me:&nbsp; they were so unused to somebody arriving by train from London that they went to the wrong station!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Press conference, a long lingering Spanish lunch by the beach, a stroll down Las Ramblas, onto the night train, checked my emails in Paris back at my desk in London mid-morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But my overnight trip to Vienna beats that.\u00a0 I made \u00a35,000 whilst on the train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by John Stewart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be a pity if night trains in Europe disappeared.&nbsp; It would reduce choice for travellers.&nbsp; That is why the week of action starting today organised by Train Tracks Europe &#8211; https:\/\/back-on-track.eu\/action-week-april-2018\/ &#8211; is important.&nbsp; The campaign seeks to preserve the remaining night trains and bring back many of those which have been withdrawn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=78400\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adventures on night trains&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78401,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78400\/revisions\/78401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}