Michael Palin’s trip round Europe

If you can watch BBC TV, unlike me, then you can watch another of Palin’s journeys round somewhere. The trip to Poland looks good…

clipped from travel.timesonline.co.uk One of the great experiences of the trip was in Poznan, Poland, where they let me drive a steam train. This is something that would never, ever happen in this country. They allow someone who has never driven before – the most I’ve done is stand on the footplate – take a commercial service with passengers on board through the forests at 50mph

You can find more information about the ‘Wolsztyn Experience’ via an interesting article on Railroad.net