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Roland Perry wrote:

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, at
00:41:18 on Mon, 15 Jun 2009, peter remarked:
Apparently it would take 67 hours and 3 minutes to travel from Moscow
to Lisbon)

No wonder people take the plane!!

But joking apart, I did consider going to Lisbon by train, thinking it
wasn't that much further than the south of France, but it's almost 24hrs
from Paris, change Irun (where's that??)

Franco-Spanish border near Biarritz. Gauge changing a speciality.

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