My main effort at making my Europe trip a little bit greener was to commit to not making any domestic flights. Everywhere that I reasonably could, I took the train.
So, the very first thing I noticed was that of all the places I wanted to travel (Spain, France, the UK) the only train journey that didn't have a scheduled service every day was between Wellington and Auckland.
That's right - the train between two of our main centres only runs three days a week in the winter. How crazy is that? I guess so many people fly instead that it's not viable to run more often.
But I reckon the train service is really valuable. It creates about 1/8th the carbon emissions of flying. It would be terrible if it stopped running altogether.
So I'm glad that I put my money into supporting it.
And, damn, it's a beautiful journey.
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