A week ago today Southwest Airlines launched its blog Nuts about Southwest. It is not hawking its products but rather sharing travel tips and things to do when you arrive at your destination.
I like their natural, conversational tone. You can tell that it is not written by the PR department.
I actually heard about it first from new zealander Rachel Cunliffe. Her footnote about liking to know why people travel brought back to mind the fascination that trains had on me when I was a kid. I would walk to the train station while living in Brest and watch trains come and go. I would have the same dreamy thoughts in Toulouse when trains full of Italian pilgrims on their way to Lourdes would be in the station. I took the ‘Talgo’ 
train once or twice from France to Barcelona and enjoyed its comforts.
Some of the train stations in Europe’s main cities would also list a dizzying array of destinations. They would bring you through many different time zones, languages and cultures. It brings back to mind Kraftwerk and their ode to the ‘Trans Europe Express‘. Travel is also about discovering the unknown.
‘Nuts about Southwest’, the Southwest Airlines blog got me dreaming of unknown places
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