Freelance Tour Manager for Rail Based vacations around the world
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 …
Continue reading "2022 Kicks Off with Canada (and Mr. Brain’s Faggots)"
On many Tours we find ourselves travelling on Narrow Gauge railways and clients are used to referring to them as such. People often understand what it means (or think they do) but for many, the phrase is almost meaningless. Let's take a look at what is going on. The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge railroad …
Got a phone call today from Great Rail Journeys. A Tour Manager has become unwell and can’t operate his scheduled Tour, Puglia & The Salento Coast - All Inclusive. They asked if I would be happy to pick up the Tour at short notice; it leaves very early on on Saturday morning so I’ve got …
I guess that'll teach me to try and be happy during lockdown. Shortly after my last post, the UK Government decided to put France on the Naughty Step, and as a result I've just been told that my Italian Tour to Sirmione & Lake Garda has been cancelled. For a couple of days there was …
So... A few days rest and then I'm off again on the 30th November. I've been busy being Chinese and Christmas has kind of snuck up on me all of a sudden. It's going to do so even more suddenly when I pitch up in Germany to do this little beauty of a Tour. As …
Continue reading "Steam and Christmas Markets in the Harz Mountains and Saxony"
That's the line up for the next few weeks. July and August have been quiet, with little work for TimOnTheTrain. That's actually quite normal. My clients tend to be a tiny bit older, and they don't do heat and they don't do kids - both of which are everywhere during the Summer months. This Thursday …
Miniatur Wunderland, Hamburg is the largest model railway in the world. It has a Floor area of 1,490 square metres and 15.4 Kilometres of track with 260,000 human figures, 130,000 trees and over 4,000 buildings. It includes a functioning airport and Fire Fighting service and national scenes from Germany, Scandinavia, Italy, Switzerland, Austria and the …
It's beginning to get confusing about time zones. Belarus is supposed to be 1 hour ahead of Warsaw and 1 hour behind Moscow but nobody seems to have told the Belarussians about this so they're already on Moscow time. At least we think so. Anyway, some time around 8pm (or possibly 9pm) we arrived at …
A long days travel today, but we made it and I'm writing this blog entry from the hotel in Berlin. Our day started with a glitch, when Eurostar cancelled our Brussels train and rebooked us On another one that left 40 minutes earlier. I asked Eurostar for the reason behind the cancellation and they blamed …
Only 9 days to go until I set off on my Trans-Siberian adventure and I'm head down in preparation. I only have a small number of clients (It's a very expensive Tour and one that, at 19 days duration also requires a significant time commitment - it's not for everybody). Some of my clients are …
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