Winter can be a kind of "fifty shades of grey" experience in the western parts of Sweden. You often wake up and want to cry out "BORING!" as your leaden body has made it towards the window. The drab view gives your dulled state of mind all the confirmation it needs to conclude: Not a good day...
Well, we all know that even under these conditions you can turn things around and come up BIG with a strong carpe diem performance. Sometimes this may mean to opt for a determined escape. In this case from Gothenburg to Stockholm, with its often more attractive winter weather, by no means guaranteed though.
As an old train-travel afficionado with lots of rail-miles in my track record, rides have been few and far between during the last two decades. That's why modern day fast trains dashing through the landscape in a sort of ground-level flight are something special for me.
And yes, it was worth it. Stockholm city life is appealing even in winter, but I felt starved for snow and frost, so nature in suburban areas was my prime target on this trip.
Note: Show is hosted by Youtube. The first 1:25 minutes show pictures taken from the fast moving train. I didn't expect to get any useful pictures, due to speed, shaking and dirty windows. But some processing improved the images considerably. Just for fun I assembled the train-pictures to a sequence trying to simulate a train ride. This part does not always "flow" so well on the internet. Try 720p if the highest resolution stutters or stops. Or else, just move on to 1:25, it calms down there.
Well, we all know that even under these conditions you can turn things around and come up BIG with a strong carpe diem performance. Sometimes this may mean to opt for a determined escape. In this case from Gothenburg to Stockholm, with its often more attractive winter weather, by no means guaranteed though.
As an old train-travel afficionado with lots of rail-miles in my track record, rides have been few and far between during the last two decades. That's why modern day fast trains dashing through the landscape in a sort of ground-level flight are something special for me.
And yes, it was worth it. Stockholm city life is appealing even in winter, but I felt starved for snow and frost, so nature in suburban areas was my prime target on this trip.
Note: Show is hosted by Youtube. The first 1:25 minutes show pictures taken from the fast moving train. I didn't expect to get any useful pictures, due to speed, shaking and dirty windows. But some processing improved the images considerably. Just for fun I assembled the train-pictures to a sequence trying to simulate a train ride. This part does not always "flow" so well on the internet. Try 720p if the highest resolution stutters or stops. Or else, just move on to 1:25, it calms down there.
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