I've found at least two blogs based on bus journeys. 73 Urban Journeys is literally about things the author sees and hears on the No. 73 in London. You get a bit more on Route 79 e.g. a great chicken recipe with step by step photo instructions on there right now. It got me thinking that a bullet train blog would be a great idea. There's enough going on inside and outside the train to keep people interested for a good while. The only problem being you'd have to be dead rich to be travelling on those trains everyday. I've just come back from a gruelling day trip to Yokohama - considerably poorer and convinced that Japan's railways stations were not meant for anyone with even the slightest disability. Getting around on crutches in stations with no downward escalators is not something to be recommended. (Though watching The Office on DVD on a laptop on the train is!)
Posted by Joe at November 14, 2003 11:58 PMstill on crutches? Hope you're better soon!
Posted by: Lisa at November 15, 2003 05:17 PMStill there and will be for a while. Next Doc's appointment is still two weeks away. :+(
Posted by: Joe at November 15, 2003 10:29 PMRoute 66 inspired a great song, at least.
Japan's train stations are notorious exercises in 95th-percentile thinking. And let's not talk about crowd control!
Posted by: DJ at November 17, 2003 01:40 PM> 95th-percentile thinking
Very good point indeed. A little metaphor for society here as a whole!
Posted by: Joe at November 17, 2003 03:12 PM