all aboard
Recently I've written about a reading project I have bubbling away in the background - see my 26 in 26 post back in January. The idea of it is that I'll read the 26 named titles across the year. It's going really well, so far, and I've read 11 from the list, and I've also interspersed a few random books amongst those. So it's been a good reading year. It's been so good that I've been planning another reading project that I'd like to have running in the background alongside the above mentioned 26 target, but this one will have no set titles or timescale. This new project has been prompted by a train ticket I never bought, and an adventure I never had, back in the 1980s. Let me explain. When I was in my mid-twenties, in the mid-80s, there was a train ticket available that gave a young back-packer/traveller/adventurer one month of unlimited 2nd class train travel across the rail networks of 21 European countries. This ticket was called the Inter-rail ...