Amazing Train Journeys

- Season 8

(2018)

Beginning of the journey on a railway line in the middle of the wild life; in the savanna giraffes, antelopes.A woman arrives and explains that they must wait for a moment; the train may be late.And then train arrives: only a wagon for passengers, the other wagons are for freight.On board many students, mothers and children.Philippe stops his travel and visits a baboons sanctuary: there a man is taking care for orphan baboons, Philippe enjoys this moments with these baboons.Then Philippe takes again the railway line to Windhoek.A very short stay in Windhoek and ...

Philippe begins his journey in the region of Antioquia: there is a railway track but no trains: there people adapted a type of table with wheels pushed by a motorcycle (motomesa): so people can travel from village to another village.Then Philippe goes to the mountains, he visit a banana farm.To cross from a slope to another slope they use a hamper (called "garrucha") pulled by cables.In Bogota Philippe takes a cable-railway to climb a mountain.Then a short travel in a touristic train.On a place of Bogota Philippe see how works the trade of emeralds.Then Philippe goes ...

Philippe begins his travel in Canada in Sept-Iles (Eastern Quebec).On the train he meets a father and his son; they speak about the great spaces of the North of Canada and the father invites Philippe to spend a night in his log cabin.So the train stops, they go down and walking with snowshoes to the log cabin.As they need water they go the frozen lake, break the ice and collect water. In the night they go early to bed and in the morning Philippe look at the nature.Then he goes back to the tracks of the train: he has to wait 3 hours and the weather is very ...

The travel begins in Andalusia in the town of Ronda.There people can take a special train called "Al-Andalus" which crosses through Andalusia: a first class train with a first class service.Philippe stop in Granada and visit the famous Alhambra, a beautiful sight over the town and the mountains.Then Philippe go to Tabernas: in a bar a lot of cowboys and a American Indian: all these men have participated in Western movies filmed near Tabernas.Philippe speaks especially with Antonio, a Spanish man dressed as an American Indian and who feels like an American ...

Beginning of the journey in Dublin: Philippe takes the Grand Hibernian luxury train to Cork and Galway: bar, dining room, pleasant sleeping cabin and pleasant talk with the employees.Now Philippe is in Connemara, a region with wet soils (peat): he meets a sheep breeder who will shear his sheep(Scottish black face breed).Then train from Ballinasloe to Kilkenny, talk about the elves(leprechauns) and the traditions in Ireland.Then meeting with a female druid, ceremony of the Celtic summer (looking for the harmony with the nature).Then from Tralee to Mallow a travel in a ...

Beginning of the journey in Taipei: at the central railway station a great space for encounters: people sitting on the floor talking, eating and drinking.Philippe takes a suburban train: there he meets women wearing face masks (a protection against the air contamination specially in crowded places).Then Philippe goes to a temple: young people are praying to Yue Lao (the old man under the moon, god of the marriage and love) and they hope to meet a good companion.Later Taipei by night, a festival of lights.In a night market Philippe tries to eat stinky tofu.Then ...

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