tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post6670367943489104798..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: The More We Know... Umberto TosiKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-62139394934353553782019-01-11T16:37:14.649+00:002019-01-11T16:37:14.649+00:00Sorry this comment is a bit late - I am just catch...Sorry this comment is a bit late - I am just catching up on my blog reading after having to go back to work during the week. <br />I too found the idea of the winter journey from coast to coast very evocative. This was a complete different scenario of course but it reminded me of one of my first train journeys in America, from Chicago to Cincinnati, when there was a huge thunderstorm somewhere en route and I looked out the window to see lightning flashing quite scarily across the sky, apparently almost overhead. I love train travel and have travelled by train in America a couple more times and also from Edinburgh to Helsinki by train and ferry, and from Paris to Barcelona and back. I don't think we are the only ones, to judge by all the train and railway programmes we get on tv now.Cecilia Peartreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653871639579934396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-87486668539503664182019-01-05T19:44:05.246+00:002019-01-05T19:44:05.246+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.John Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13953580952152642412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-65179765969538862652019-01-05T11:27:08.646+00:002019-01-05T11:27:08.646+00:00Oh yes! I remember watching hares in the fields in...Oh yes! I remember watching hares in the fields in the dusk through a train window (the sleeper from Scotland) as night fell. Magical. Thank you for this, Umberto! Sometimes Ridiculous will be my next purchase - it sounds intriguing!Sandra Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01761260568729338471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-14911368151916776112019-01-04T11:30:48.953+00:002019-01-04T11:30:48.953+00:00I spent yesterday flying home from a New Year visi...I spent yesterday flying home from a New Year visit to sons in New York, so have only just read this, and it brought me instantly back to my childhood holidays, taking the overnight train from Stuttgart to Paris, then changing for Calais and Dover. That feeling of being suspended in a cocoon, rocking through the night - just magical. Half-awake in darkness, I couldn't always tell which way the train was going and I still try to recreate that feeling when asleep on a train, just to see if it works. Flying is more common nowadays and, generally, quicker, but it doesn't have the same romance. Thanks for this delightful, evocative post. Griselda Heppelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09207965148074302337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-89679695499756653642019-01-04T11:09:25.652+00:002019-01-04T11:09:25.652+00:00Thank you Dipika!Thank you Dipika!Umberto Tosihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04939504157464234443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-19731338626709731152019-01-03T20:52:13.357+00:002019-01-03T20:52:13.357+00:00Umberto, this post brought back the magic of the r...Umberto, this post brought back the magic of the railways, and it was enchanting to imagine a boy on the top bunk, gazing at the moonlit landscape. I must get your latest book soon, which I am sure will be very very far from anything ridiculous. Happy New Year and more power to your writing!Dipika Mukherjeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17734481154069467025noreply@blogger.com