Anyone else a confirmed public-transport user?

@helenS My best train memories were on Australia's The Ghan from Alice Springs to Darwin soon after its construction, the NZ Trans-Alpine Express, the TGV bullet-train to Marseille, and a vintage train Christmas-dinner journey from my hometown Canberra to a local station and back with my daughter. Plus, many overseas subway jaunts including notably on New York's, used to love that Sesame St song.

@UpForItNow The TGV is fantastic! It's a joy to use it.
I was in Australia, many years ago – in Brisbane. Unfortunately we used a car for traveling around.

@helenS I have a trainspotter type vid of both the Ghan and TGV journeys. The only negative was that I inadvertently booked into a smoking car - couldn't conceive of such a thing - and got choked by the fumes of Gauloises before discharging into the Roman grandeur of the Marseille station.

@UpForItNow Trainspotting and bird watching - wonderful hobby horses! I live by a lake, and there are many birds here. Birding by ear is beautiful, especially in spring when they they start mating.

@helenS In Canberra I can spot kookaburras, wedge-tailed eagles, powerful owls and peregrine falcons.

@UpForItNow Oh I remember those kookaburras! 🤬
(Shortly before I was in Australia, my then guy had left me, and in Brisbane it seemed as if those birds would laugh at me all the time.)