[AccessD] OT: Merry Christmas

Another great thing about proper train travel is you usually get on and
off right in the city itself, not dumped 150+ kms from anywhere in a
darn paddock with a 2 hour wait to check on and off whist the folks in
the rubber gloves checking you out for explosives.  The glamour age of
air travel is long dead.

Train travel is the future, not the past IMHO...  Sadly in Australia our
various Governments don't see it that way. Yet...

Cheers
Darryl.
 

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Steele
Sent: Thursday, 24 December 2009 3:00 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Merry Christmas

At this time last year I was in Europe visiting my son.  Before I left,
I bought a EurRail pass.  The cheapest option was First Class for the
two of us.  I've been to Europe before, but never travelled First Class
rail.  What an eye opener!  Just about the best travelling I've ever
done - comfortable, lots of room, food, drink, newspapers, extra
friendly staff.  A huge contrast from flying, and nearly as fast.  On
one memorable trip on a Thales
(French) train, they even had free wi-fi.  I was able to log in to
Google Earth on my iPhone and watch the countryside ripping past us on
my screen at about 200kph, while simultaneously watching it through the
window.  A geek's delight.

Doug

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> At this time where you can count the hours till you _have_ to leave 
> your keyboard I wish all my fellow listers a Merry Christmas.
>
> As a small Christmas present - free to use and distribute - I bring 
> you this link to an extraordinary docu video of a size that will make 
> your download wire glow.
> It shows the full travel from Bergen to Oslo, the second largest city 
> and the capital of Norway, by rail via "Bergensbanen", a route which 
> had its 100 years anniversary Nov. 27th this year.
>
> With its length of 526,64 km typically more than 1000 m above the sea 
> through the mountains via 182 tunnels, it is rated as one of the ten 
> most spectacular railroads in the World by Chicago Tribune in 2005 and

> lasts for more than 7 hours. The scenes from Hoth in Star Wars Episode

> V, The Empire Strikes Back, were filmed at Finse, a small town along
the route.
>
> The tour was recorded in HD TV and broadcast with some interviews in 
> between by the Norwegian public service TV, NRK, and attracted 1.2
mio.
> viewers.
> The download, however, is the clean view as seen from the engine. At a

> whopping size of 165 GB it is too much for most people, so a 
> scaled-down version at 1280 x 720 is offered at "only" 22 GB:
>
>  http://nrkbeta.no/2009/12/18/bergensbanen-eng/
>
> So if you miss a present for the railroad-nerd of your family, get a 
> USB disk and start downloading now!
>
> Of course, nothing is like the real travel. I took the ride with my 
> wife Rita some years ago - we both love railroads - and can highly
recommend it.
>
> /gustav
>
>
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