When a train breaks down in England, it is commonly met with loud tutting and contemptuous glares at any unfortunate member of staff who happens to be there, regardless of their culpability. It is also the prompt for a spate of unnecessarily loud mobile phone calls, as if the caller has been served some greater injustice than their fellow passengers.
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Here in Brazil, the reaction is somewhat different. At least that was our experience on the Curitiba to Morretes mountain train. Due, perhaps in some small part, to the free beer on board (we’d paid a couple of extra quid for the privilege even though it left at 8am) the announcement by the very friendly and informative train guide that “the seeestem has fallen down ahgen” was greeted with great hilarity, more singing and general bonhomie, as if we were all sharing some kind of special life experience together. And I guess, in a sense, perhaps we were.....
We ended up rolling in at 1.45, nearly 3 hours late, but nobody seemed that bothered. And as for the panoramas, well we got to see quite a few like this,
......but our favourite one was this..
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Looks like you ate having an amazing adventure - thank you for sharing with us! Missing you all x
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