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Back in the 60s, my partner's mother drove all the way from London to Afghanistan in a tiny Fiat 500. This was a family of four! The past really is a foreign c
by langleyi 10mo ago
Back in the 60s, my partner's mother drove all the way from London to Afghanistan in a tiny Fiat 500. This was a family of four!
The past really is a foreign country sometimes.
- hexbin010 10mo agoThat's impressive! My grandmother took 2 or 3 of her kids, on her own, on the train from London to southern Italy a couple of times a year with the same kind of stoicism as people take the bus into town these days. They were built different
- jimbokun 10mo agoTaking the train to southern Italy a couple of times a year sounds like both a great adventure and a great privilege.
- hexbin010 10mo agoMy grandparents switched to driving as soon as they could afford it haha (my grandfather the begrudging driver). Train was certainly an adventure
- somat 10mo agoMy mother took us(four kids) on the train from CA to FL (and back) a couple times. It is a fond memory now, but looking back on it, A 3-day (most of it in Texas) 2000 mile journey with four children in coach.... The woman was a saint.
- trop 10mo agoRobert Byron, in The Road to Oxiana, describes a 1930s trip to present-day Afghanistan. But I believe he started the automobile portion in Tehran.