The Man in Seat Sixty-One

Travel by train - anywhere in the world overland! While getting distracted from revising (ahem) I stumbled across the Man in Seat Sixty-One - a website that will get you from the UK to anywhere in the world without commiting any more carbon crimes.

It tells you all about the different connections you need to make, service times, the types of trains and ferries you can use and about local transport at your destination. The writer has travelled on most on them, so its exclusively from his personal experiences and plastered with pictures. So now I know how to get to Egypt without flying if I end up visiting a friend there. Unfortunately there are no easily-publicly accessible services from the UK to Australia - you can get as far as Indonesia on train and ferry, but you'll have to catch a freighter ship onwards to Aussieland.

So, especially for that next European holiday - take the train and ask the man in seat sixty-one how to get there!