since we’re all calling life a journey these days   ..

 


 
travel by train has always seemed  
to me the best way of writing about life, the monotonous journeys, the  
 
frequent delays, the cancellations, leading to unexpected stays in hurriedly booked hotels in those never  
 
intended destinations; but as well, there’s always those who will help one up and down from the train when they  
 
see the struggle it entails, and it’s for them I intend to never again go off, as one might put it, he said, the rails  ..