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People keep asking me if it would be cheaper to take a TRAIN to central Europe from Finland than a plane. I wonder if these people have never ridden a train, or simply don't grasp that trains go on the ground and consume combustible fuel? (One need hardly say that they don't grasp Finland is a peninsula.)  Someone once told our exchange student from Norway that she hadn't visited it at all, but she might have stopped there "for gas" while her family was road-tripping around Europe.

Okay, PSA, people: in order to get from anywhere in the Nordic countries to central Europe by train, you would have to first take that train into Russia and south around the Blackaltic Sea, namely: through most of eastern Europe (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and Poland before you even reach Germany (which would take a couple of days and, needless to say, cost a lot more than flying). A ferry will take you quickly to Stockholm, and another will take you to Denmark from there, but it's a toss-up whether that would actually save you any money.

Ahahahhaha. A TRAIN. Thank you, America, for the LULZ.

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Date: 16 Jul 2007 06:17 pm (UTC)
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Glass trains, so it would be like being INSIDE a big aquarium!

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