The setting is the coastal town of Bray, which is a short train ride from Dublin.
When I returned home from my China adventure, highlighted by a bullet train ride between Shanghai and Hangzhou, I met with similar skepticism.
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It is often served in a stainless-steel cup and, along with some people-watching, makes a perfect post-train-ride break on a hot day.
The rolling hills around the Irish capital are endowed with an array of easily accessible day trips, from charming coastal villages to breathtaking mountain scenery, all just a car or train ride away.
But you also include a Honduran grandmother who takes care of her nine grandchildren, and she talks about being willing to take a dangerous ride on a freight train to come to the U.S. for a better life.
In "Last Train Home, " Mead paints a simple but ambivalent portrait of a late-night train ride in which fleeting companionship is unmistakably intertwined with loneliness.
The traveler stumbles bleary-eyed into the crowded arrival hall, only to face another two- to four-hour journey either by bus or train (a taxi ride would bankrupt an Arab prince) into the city.
During a three hour Acela train ride to New York from Massachusetts on Oct. 24, those stories had me thinking about the small town that made me, to the big cities that broke me.
And if you're really unlucky, you have to ride the A train, which ranks at the bottom of the 20 subway lines in the city.
Monday, Coe plans to ride a special train service from central London to the Olympic Park along with athletes and officials including London Mayor Boris Johnson and the government's Olympics minister, Tessa Jowell.
NFC-enabled devices like smartphones will allow people to go to a restaurant or movie, access their ATM, lend money to a friend, ride the train, unlock doors, and thousands of other tasks with one device.
How smart is Dagny and Ellis for not testing the steel themselves but they bravely ride a high speed train over a bridge made of it?
Roughly half-way through the 33-hour train ride, at a time when many passengers are dozing in the oppressive afternoon heat, a series of subtle yet significant changes begins to unfold.
Here's the problem with that plan: The New York area already has a sparkling stadium in an area filled with soccer-crazed immigrants that is a cheap, 20-minute train ride from Manhattan.
Then, like a middle-income couple with young children, the league decided Manhattan was too crowded and too expensive, and it spent the past year closing in on a deal for a stadium in Queens in an area filled with soccer-crazed immigrants that would be a cheap, 20-minute train ride from Manhattan.
So, after a short ride downtown on the Q train and wandering about with the help of maps on my iPhone, I finally spotted the art off in the distance.
An overnight train from Delhi and a daylong Jeep ride along crumbling cliff-face roads had brought me to Sankri, a hillside outpost on the southern rim of Govind Pashu Vihar National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary.
Roberto, from El Salvador, makes the train ride north sound like merely a long commute.
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Settling into a seat as day turns to night and twilight adds a mischievous element to the ride, with a burst of hooting and hollering breaking out each time the train passes through a darkened tunnel.
On the train ride home, he struck up a lively conversation in French with a young woman that brought out the worst jealousy in her boyfriend.
The site even offers estimated reading times, to give you an idea of how long a story might entertain you during your flight, train ride or afternoon by the pool.
Driving your car to a park-and-ride station and taking the train downtown is now cheaper and perhaps faster than the average trip on the congested highway.
Take the Narita Express train just one stop (about a 10-minute ride) to the city of Narita, where a trail of local shops and restaurants line the path to the Naritasan Shinshoji Temple.
For the first 30 minutes of that train ride, the two discussed potential solutions, debating a a few options and finally choosing a course.
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For example, public transport is expensive: a one-way ten-kilometre (six-mile) train ride from suburban Oslo into the city costs NKr26, which is twice as much as the road toll.
Ms. Chan takes a 10-minute cab ride each morning to get to the nearest train station.
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