Cheap Train Tickets
Sunday January 4, 2009
In many places, train travel is an afterthought. The rise of budget airlines within Europe led many away from train-heavy itineraries. But this fact remains -- the rail networks of the world offer some superb budget travel options along with connections to other modes of transportation. Cheap train tickets have saved many a budget itinerary in Europe, North America, Asia. Start 2009 budget travel planning by considering 10 chances for affordable train travel. Get some rail passes and begin your journey!
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I am an artist and tour facilitator (in Tuscany and Bordeaux), in 2007 I wrote and published a 16-day self guided tour called An Adventure In Tuscany. One premise was to show how much less expensive it is to live like the locals in a medieval village and take day trips into the cities, avoiding high hotel costs, food and parking, (for example a cappuccino can cost E3.50 in the city and E1.50 in a village), leaving your car in Arrezo (where some of Life is Beautiful was filmed) for example an taking the train into Florence. Many guests use the train to add on to their Tuscany Cultural GEt-Away and travel up to Venice or Pisa, the coast or to France.
Sounds like a great idea. I’ve found train travel to quite reasonable except in GB, and comfortable as well.