Freelance Tour Manager for Rail Based vacations around the world
Well, we made it, and after all of the en route delays, largely caused by waiting for freight trains to pass, we ended up arriving in Vancouver two hours ahead of schedule. this is our first Canadian city where the temperature has been above freezing, and the first Canadians I’ve seen wearing soft comfortable shoes …
Last night we stopped at Winnipeg, which has a beautiful rotunda at the busiest station in Canada. Like Chicago in the USA, everything going across the country goes through the city. We were there for about an hour and a half, just about long enough to stretch legs especially as the temperature was a fairly …
As expected, there’s a lot of time on the train where there is no phone signal, and so, no internet. We have a 2 hour stop in Winnipeg where I’m going to try and get this post uploaded. At this stage, rather than do detail I’m just going to upload a lot of photos that …
We all managed to put the aviation problems of yesterday behind us. It’s amazing what a really comfortable bed in a good hotel and a steaming hot shower can achieve. We started the day with a drive around Toronto. The quiet Saturday morning meant that we could enjoy a guided tour and make good progress …
New Year, New Season and TimOnTheTrain is back on the train... properly this time, Thank God! This season is already shaping up to be quite busy and if you want to take a look at what will be coming up, take a look at the Future Tours page on this website. There's very little Longhaul …
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At last, the start of the new 2022 season is approaching. Like a bear stirring from Winter hibernation, I've started to think about what I need to get done in advance. I've started by cleaning up the website. Some of the pages were rather full of content and were taking some time to load, so …
It happened again. I picked up another Tour, (this time only 24hrs notice) to Scotland. The Tour Manager had to go to hospital (Get better soon Lucy) and I got the “Please Help” phone call. The Tour was for Great Rail Journeys - Highland Adventure. Because of the short notice I had to do a …
Our final full day so I took my clients up the volcano. We started early to avoid crowds and make the best of good weather. Nearly all of my clients went to the very top - I stayed as base camp Refugia Sapienza. To catch them as they came down and to defrost them (it …
The weather Gods are beginning to tire of tormenting us and were able to catch an early morning hydrofoil back to mainland Sicily. We arrived at Milazzo port and out faithful bus driver Salvatore transferred us to Messina for a short tour and a late breakfast. Looking across the Straights of Messina, the Italian mainland …
For those of you who believe that my life is one endless stream of basking in sunshine at poolside while being fed grapes by supermodels in skimpy bikinis, well… you are essentially correct. Unfortunately, into every life a little rain must fall, and it’s doing so today, rather heavily in fact. The weather has impacted …
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