Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure

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It takes a while for things to get going in this book, and at one level, I'm glad it doesn't have some of the frenzy of the first book.

We have a word in Dutch, gezellig, which means that there are no boundaries and that everyone is sharing and getting along…it’s a word that describes an atmosphere or feeling, like we are a train family. Rajesh has a chatty, witty, conversational writing style, coming across as very open and honest from the start, where she shares the discussions she and her fiance Jem had about the trip before deciding to travel together. Rajesh is a whinier, more superficial and judgmental version of Elizabeth Gilbert, whose overrated popular book I found so annoyingly cliche I couldn't even read past the first chapter.She makes the same decision about Tibet, though at least there she goes into some detail of China’s erosion of Tibetan culture, the laws imposed on its people, and even the negative effect of increasing high-speed rail access to the region.

Korea and China, and captures so much of the romance of train travel including the numerous little epiphanies about oneself while touching the edge of inner stillness in a moving train. was essentially “Around Asia with a brief chapter on North America, a complete gloss over Europe, and never venturing into Africa, Central or S America.

As other reviewers have said, it was not a trip round the World as Africa is not covered and neither is South America.