My phone no longer works. So I can do more work.
a wise friend
Schlagwort: Reisen
Unterwegsarbeit.
Let the new year roll.
Goal: 5000km
Whichever Moab it might be.
Ah, I already quoted that one.
Terug.
Mensch muss weg um das Hier zu mögen.
On Track.
By the 1930s passengers could travel from the English channel to Cairo with only three changes of train. The last leg, in third class, cost the equivalent of about two days’ work for a labourer. It left Haifa daily at 0830, steamed south to the Mediterranean port of Gaza by lunchtime, turned west into Sinai and arrived in the Egyptian capital by 2230.
From there, travellers could continue aboard one of the first air-conditioned carriages along the Nile to Luxor’s Valley of the Kings and on to Sudan. “Direct and quickest route to Damascus, Beyrout, Baalbek and Aleppo,” read a Palestine Railways brochure advertising the connections from Haifa.
The Economist: Railway lines once connected the Middle East (2021-12-18)