I really love the train trip between Sydney and Newcastle, except of course when there’s track work, and you’re transported by bus instead. It’s only happened to me once. The train trip is, by world standards, already quite slow (almost three hours to travel 150 km), but when you also have to get on and off buses as well, it becomes quite tedious.
Over the course of three hours, however, you have time to think about life, look out the windows at the scenery, and catch up on some listening, reading, watching and writing.… Read the rest “Between Two Worlds”