Train

Marcel plays a game during a long train ride, then goes for a run and records a video for Anna.

Every time a long train ride is part of the itinerary, I pack my Switch 2. Every time, I pull it out for maybe ten minutes, if that, before it ends up shoved back into my backpack. You’d think I’d have learned by now and just leave it at home. But I’ll do exactly the same thing next time.

Marcel from four years ago would never have been able to go for a run after a day of travel. For one thing, I wasn’t running back then. For another, travel used to take so much out of me that I’d be completely spent.

But over the last couple of years, I’ve worked on my relationship with travel, and this run felt like one of the clearest signs of progress.

Marcel and Anna travel by train to London, where they explore the city and share pizza and pints.

We arrived in London, and I couldn’t have had a better initial impression. I loved it from the very first second.