HandS Travel

Train Conductor:  “Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your train manager speaking. Welcome to this service to ***, calling at ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, and ***.” Next station’s stop is ***. Please accept our sincere apologies for our slight delay from London Paddington today. Thank you for travelling with First Great Western… For travellers joining [...]

The next day we rushed to catch the 11:20 train to Salzburg.  The ticket line was quite long, as was the one checking out of the hotel.  Nonetheless, we ran and made our train.  The 2.5 hour train was a bit annoying with loud foreigners playing UNO and Italians speaking at the top of their [...]

Good morning Prague, you have been great to us, but we must depart.  Today we are off to Vienna via train.  Prague, Sheila and I both agreed, is definitely one of the most beautiful cities we have both seen.  It is just an amazing mix of very old, some more modern stuff, and just unique [...]

So I’ve started writing this post somewhere underneath the English Channel.  We are currently aboard the Eurostar train from London to Paris, a short 2.5 hour train ride.  Using my handy GPS I’ve noticed we hit as high as 186mph in the UK, just an interesting tidbit.  Anyhow, we are both very excited to be [...]