hetismij2

There is an interesting article in the Guardian today promoting a company Byway Travel which specialises in individual trips using trains boats and buses.
It sounds like a great idea to me. Anyway you can read the article here

It may be of interest to those of you who do not want to hire a car and who want to limit there flying after getting to Europe. UK, Parts of France and Italy only at this time.

bilboburgler

Great idea, I certainly like taking ferries and trains and find aircraft horrid, noisy and airports far from where I want to be.

annhig

thanks for posting that, Hets. I had a look at their itineraries for Cornwall, just to see what they were proposing, and apart from the rather novel suggestion that people stay in St Austell i thought that their recommendations were pretty good. The prices also struck me as very reasonable considering holiday prices generally and the level of flexibility and support they apparently offer.

Bilbo - I agree with you about preferring trains etc and at the moment I think that they enable the traveller to maintain far greater control over his/her environment compared to the "cattle market" atmosphere of some airports. This is pretty encouraging too:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ilway-stations

thursdaysd

Thanks for the link. That's my kind of travel, usually by train, but having someone sort out bus connections might be handy. BTW, Intrepid has always traveled that way, and I believe Saga as well (my UK-based elder sister uses Saga, and always seems to be taking off for Europe by coach).

If you're interested in UK train stations, have you seen this? http://allthestations.co.uk/

annhig

I hadn't seen that, thursdaysd. What a fun project. i must have a closer look when I've got time.