I love trains. Quiet, plenty of leg room, usually fast to travel, interesting scenery (not just clouds like when flying with plains, although clouds can be interesting too), fast departure (airports are the worst) and I don't have to drive so I can for instance post something to Steemit.
Driving is fun too. DON'T TEXT AND DRIVE!
I wish Tampere, where I live, would have local trains like Helsinki has. Helsinki, the capital of Finland, has extended its local trains all the way to Tampere, but that means that only the people in the small towns between Tampere and Helsinki have the opportunity to use local trains.
Let's hope that Helsinki soon wants to extend its local trains nationwide. Or is it too much to ask? I don't think so.
20 to 30 minutes by bus is 5 to 15 minutes by train. Is it just me or does anyone else think that 15 minutes it less than 30 minutes? The smallest fee (shortest distance) by bus is 3€. That covers less kilometers than a trip from Tampere to Lempäälä (small town next to Tampere) which by local train costs 2,40€. Again is it just me or is 2,40 less than 3 euros?
I love traveling. More than the actual being somewhere else than home, I love the part when I'm going from one place to another. Especially the going away part. Usually coming back home sucks. Don't get me wrong, I do love to come home, it's just that the journey back is always longer than the getaway part.
My guess is that it has something to do with time travel and maybe some worm holes and black holes and all kind of holes.
Darn Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking and all the scientists and song writers and poets and people who introduced us the thought that time is flexible and bendable and all that stuff. Darn Bender from Futurama too.
All photos except this last one were taken with Canon EOS 550D in Tampere. This pic was taken somewhere on the road near Seinäjoki with Huawei P9.