It's hard to agree with that. There are some amazing train routes through Austria, Norway, Switzerland, Germany that keep me looking out of the window the whole way.
I love the views from the train too, but I feel like the view flying is something magical everyone should experience at least once in their life.
The ground fading away, the tiny cars, glittering rivers, seeing it in reverse for landing. That is something I'll wax poetic about. But if I could take the train the rest of my life I would.
Clearly the middle ground here is to bring back zeppelins. /s
No sarcasm needed for zeppelins: the idea of gliding over the landscape low enough to hear through the openable window what's happening below fast enough to be useful for a domestic voyage, and in reasonable comfort: What's not to like?
I was waiting for a Ryanair flight from Friedrichshafen when one of the Zeppelin NT craft flew past, heading over the Bodensee towards Switzerland. It looked simultaneously classic and futuristic, the sort of shiny utopia future of 1950s sci-fi book covers. I envied HARD.
It's hard to agree with that. There are some amazing train routes through Austria, Norway, Switzerland, Germany that keep me looking out of the window the whole way.