Train travel ~ Long long journey ~ Enya

In this video you are travelling with me on a journey from France to Netherlands in October 2009. The title: Long long journey… , is not really counting for this journey. Though it lasts more than ten hours to travel from France to Netherlands, travelling by train is very relaxing and exciting at the same time, reason for why these hours go as fast as the high speed of the luxurious trains. The new French trains are fast, very very modern and comfortable! We drive through the Belgian Ardennes, in autumn: the trees have been coloured into warm red, orange and yellow ocher, and some have already lost all the leafs. On some moments you see “nothing” but some shrubs flashing by because of the high speed of the train, and because they are so close next to the rail road, or layers of the Ardennes’ hill tops, where we are passing “through”, and which have been opened up for the rail road. I decided not to cut those views out of the film, because it belongs to the reality, and… it is lovely to see the villages appear again after that… Travelling by train offers the opportunity to meet people, to contact, to inform, to unite. Travelling by train is one of the most excellent ecological ways to travel: that means that this way of travelling is supporting nature, environment, and so: mankind. About Ecology: en.wikipedia.orgEcology is a philosophy that includes all aspects of life – both physical and spiritual. ‘Eco’ is derived from the Greek word oikos, meaning to feel at home …