Main Station (Glavni kolodvor), Zagreb, Croatia
Main Station (Glavni kolodvor), Zagreb, Croatia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: A Croatian railways regional and tilt...
English: A Croatian railways regional and tilting train (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I was a plane person, and I still am when the necessity calls if the trip is too long, but having time ahead I’ll take the train.

I became a fan of trains in a very hard situation, when I was a young reporter going to Croatia, then in the former Yugoslavia at war. The plane option was out of question because there were no flights to Zagreb so I take a train from Vienna.

UN soldiers and reporters were among the few passengers of the train. I was traveling alone, without photographer. I was nervous and scared I have to say. I met in my compartment another reporter from Norway. A veteran one. I told her about my fears. We had plenty of time to talk about the situation and she gave me good advice for my work on the field. At the end of the day I was more confident about what to do to optimize my work in my reports.

We had also time to admire the sights, from the woods of Vienna through the Austrian villages, beautiful landscapes in Austria, Slovenia and then Croatia. All green and fresh and beautiful, you couldn’t imagine there was going on something so ugly as a war over there. And then we arrived to Zagreb main station in the same center of the city.What happened next is another story.

The trip back home was also by train. I could talk with almost all my few fellow passengers going out of Croatia, all of them with very interesting stories to tell.

This is what trains mean to me: plenty of time to think, take notes, read, talk with other passengers if they are willing to do so, maybe find some interesting stories, fill your eyes with new sights and then arrive at your city of destination, not find yourself at a distant and cold airport.

Daily Prompt: Trains, Planes, and Automobiles.

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3 thoughts on “Train stories

  1. TammyeHoney says:

    What a beautiful journey you have taken all of your readers on thank you so much for the adventure.

    Reply
    1. Olga Brajnović says:

      I’m glad you liked it. Thank you for reading and commenting. 🙂

      Reply

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