18 reasons why you do not need to ride a Russian train, and it's time to change seats on planes

Do not get me wrong - I love trains! I love the cut of Europe ICE Deutsche Bahn high-speed trains. I was shocked by the beauty of the species from the window of a train in Italy: fields, tall bridges and many tunnels. Just double-decker train Caltrain from San Francisco will take you in a few hours and for little money anywhere in the Silicon Valley - Stanford, Palo Alto or Santa... My dream is to ride on the trains in Japan and South Korea.

1.Trains - is not cheap. Railways ticket from Moscow to our office in Ulyanovsk in CB car worth 5500 rubles. For comparison, one of the carriers will take you for a half hour in just 5490 rubles. So why torture yourself many hours for the money?

2.stations remind you in what country we live in reality. You may have a flat in the trendy area in your own home or in a tree. You can even live in the forest. But nothing will not help you avoid the stench of unwashed bodies, chebureks, patties in oil, if you buy a train ticket. Stations today we have - it is the portals of hell, and nothing has changed, and no one can out there to make a difference.

3. Security officials at stations and at airports - is quite different people. The station tuned to the humiliation of human dignity, and in the airport you usually just smile and wish Godspeed.

4.The view from the window of a train almost never fails to impress. I do not know how it goes, but in Russian train window is very rare to see something interesting. This or some ditch, where the train is racing, or margin of some forest plantations.

5. Station architecture dull, this is not the Kaiser's German masterpieces. See strongly on that.

6. In your compartment there will always be some figovina that creaks. Takes you train NE, coupe or a second-class carriage - without a difference. The hangers on hooks, pecking on the wall, the squeaky bulb, the seams in the walls will creak all night without obvious reasons. Sleep only the strongest guys are in the trains.

7. Modern trains have air conditioning. That's just they are always working so that you or freezes, or sweating. But most of all you are sweating at first, and then have a cold. Nothing to do here is often impossible. And if you have a car rides child with some lush mummy, The air conditioner can cut off altogether. And let all the passengers suffer.

8. The trains can be observed anomaly of space-time. It lies in the fact that the staff they employ the same that worked in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s. Time passes, but the approaches to dealing with the passengers, service techniques and a general view of it the same as in these years.

9. Same As for the temporary anomaly wagons. Curtains, tablecloths, artificial flowers on the tables, radio over your window coupe... All this will automatically teleport you into the past. Perhaps for that we pay money? Do you remember what the waffle towel? Buy a train ticket immediately!

10. the train only you will learn what are smelly chicken, boiled egg, and "Moscow" sausages! I do not know how it explains the science, but for some reason the passengers, almost hitting the train start to get out of the dimensionless bags wrapped in newspaper eatables and absorb it before the train ride starts. Hear these odors can be anywhere, and it is impossible to hide from them.

11. Each passenger is committed to you about something talk. In the plane, for example, it is a completely stable rule: put on the headphones - none of you will not go. The train is not running. To you have a lot of questions: "Will you eat?", "Why are not you drink with us?" "And you are going to end?" and many, many others.

12. The conductor will wake you up in the car with reserved seats for a couple of hours at leastSo you have time to hand over the bed. I can do this for two or three minutes, why wake me up in two hours ?!

13.Tea in glasses with coasters. I know that many consider it a luster - order the tea. I'm not talking about the tea itself, which will be the worst of the available in your store. I'm talking about the gloss, which RZD invests in these terribly uncomfortable holders, who then will rattle all night. It also looks great as a widow look Vorobyaninov chairs in the student hostel of the poor students, friends Ostap Bender.

14. The level of sex in the train rolls over. No, I do not mean that you will fall in the compartment and SV krasivenkaya sexually unfettered beauty. I mean, that only the train can be seen cowards stranger to you man to taste the stench of socks, learn a lot of the collapse of the fragrance emitted by the human body.

15. crossing border countries by train, you actually overcome them. Here I understand anyone who ever drove along the route Kiev - Moscow. There you wake pograntsy that at one station, then to the other, just to check your documents. What prevents to do closed wagons on such routes and serve them as on an airplane, landing and exit?

16. The aircraftIf told not to smoke, then nobody smokes. Once on the Russian airline I saw jerk who risked kurnut in the toilet. His rudely dragged after landing, and he disappeared into the bowels of the airport a punitive system. What is smoky lobbies in trains, knows only one who never went to them. This is another phenomenon that increases the feeling that you are in hell.

17. The train - a long time. Our trains do not go and crawl. I do not know what their speed, but the route that is overcome by car in six hours, we drove for the last time on a fast train for 11 hours. Terrible and ridiculous waste of time. If you take that on the plane, you lose two hours before takeoff and an hour after, the same route you will take on the strength of four o'clock!

18. Highly rarely in the way of the trains you It will be a normal telephone, internet and access to electricity. Sockets in the corridor or near the toilet only. Yes, on the plane, too, have USB only, and is not everywhere, but in an airplane you do not spend so much time. What are the passengers of the route Vladivostok - Moscow, I do not understand. Stone Age or digital detox - call it what you like, depending on your relationship to technology.

And yes, I am writing this text on the train. 2:02 on the clock. And some iron figovina rumbles I left. And I have no idea why it is there and why it is impossible to make it rattle stopped and gave me finally get some sleep. After all, this is what I was hoping for when buying an expensive ticket in the very NE.

Next time I will not listen to anyone, and will fly to Flight. F / A is only suitable for the transportation of goods and livestock.