People still stick their head in the sand, but the truth is pretty obvious. Watever the airlines may be saying, Flying is bad.
Barbarians at Gate 8. How cheap flights and ubiquitous communication have changed national identities.
By 2030 climate change will have a radical impact on global tourism. A winter holiday to the Mediterranean and a summer holiday to Sweden could become the norm as tourists attempt to avoid extreme weather.
The real face of Boratstan.
Strangely mesmerising videos of tram journeys through Brussels filmed with a front-mounted camera. (thanks Gunter)
The most dangerous roads in the world. I feel queasy just looking at some of those photos.
Holidays on death row. The hypocrisy in travel journalism.
Flying, your patriotic duty.
Eurostar goes even greener.
Oh The Irony! Global warming tourism.
If you have no other choice than hopping on a plane to travel, here’s a good resource for offsetting all that carbon you’ll be pumping into the atmosphere.
Nice rundown on the pros and cons of air travel versus other means of transport.
Not something you usually think about. Airports themselves can have a pretty heavy environmental impact.
Not something you usually think about. Airports themselves can have a pretty heavy environmental impact.
There's a whole subculture of people in the states who travel for pleasure on railroads using old railcar inspection vehicles.
There’s a whole subculture of people in the states who travel for pleasure on railroads using old railcar inspection vehicles.
Total walking distance: a quarter mile.
With the arrival of high speed trains and low-cost airlines, rich and poor are simply swapping long-distance transport modes.
This is exactly the case. I doubt the return of traditional cheaper trains would change much. They did let you carry your bike onto them which is not the case for most high-speed lines today though. As long as airlines are basically subsidised and we all take for granted that we can go anywhere in the world whenever we want to, the situation has little chance of changing.
With regard to my recent link to a post about high speed trains having negative effects on rail travel, it looks like a standard rail link may be coming back between Brussels and Paris thanks to low-cost German operator Flixtrain.
Greyhound buses, emblematic of a bygone era in American travel, have left an indelible mark on the collective imagination, gracing the frames of classic films and the pages of literary works. In this article, Joanna Pocock follows in the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir as she crosses the country by bus, only to encounter a transport network that's now a mere spectre of its former glory.
Reading this, I was surprised to learn that Greyhound now belongs to cheap German bus company Flixbus. That's quite a fall.
In this age of ragebait and kinetic videos, I find watching each episode of Ed Pratt's journey from source to sea down the river Thames to be online comfort food. You can find the other episodes on his YouTube channel.
