Ramble around France.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 1/7/07

Sustainable food and living vlog Freshtopia has teamed up with Treehugger TV for a clip about traveling the country by rail.

Remember trains? We do still have them in the US of A. Despite the constant scheduling problems and crippled infrastructure, I can’t help but root for Amtrak for hanging on in the face of our relentless car culture.

UK-based writer Rachael Glazier decided to put her green beliefs into some extreme practice this month. Looking for an alternative to carbon-belching jumbo jets for a long-haul trip, she opted to travel from London to Hong Kong, by train.

Just in time for the city to be flooded by rampaging World Cup football fans, Berlin is about to open a very large and shiny mega train station, planted squarely in the former no-man’s land between east and west.