Best Seat, Best View

About this book

Two people can take the same train, pay the same fare and sit in the same carriage, and come home with completely different journeys. One spent four hours looking at a cutting wall. The other watched the sea. In Best Seat, Best View, travel writer Callum Reyes shares the small, simple choices that turn an ordinary trip into the one you remember. He shows which side of the ferry passes the Statue of Liberty, which side of the train follows the Hudson and which follows the Pacific, and why the seat you want for Mount Fuji is the one marked E. He rides the Swiss mountain railway whose panoramic windows cannot open, and finds the small window that can. He sits at the front of trains that have no driver, climbs to the top deck of the world's largest fleet of double decker trams, and crosses harbours on public ferries that cost less than a coffee.