Narrow Gauge Inn

... to recuperate in the motel room before dinner. However, because of our tight budget, we had booked the cheapest place in town (Narrow Gauge Inn), about $50 per night. On entering the room we realised why it was so cheap! The room had painted block walls ...

... of California. After a long day behind the wheel, we were thankful (well it was Thanksgiving) to arrive at our accommodation, The Narrow Gauge Inn at Fish Camp, just outside the park. The place was really nice, in the middle of the forest with a balcony ...

... committee, which is carrying a heavy workload and convenes frequently, met and decided to head to Kalavryta and take the narrow gauge rack and pinion railway through the Vouraikos Gorge, roundtrip from to Diakoftot and back.  Another great mountain ...

We couldn't leave the Narrow Gauge Railroad Inn quick enough in the morning! We had both hardly slept and I was still under the weather, but we were looking forward to getting in the car and driving across the border to New Mexico and down to Santa ...

... - home of the famous (in Cambodia anyway) Bamboo Railway.  On a virtually disused set of railway tracks (Dad - narrow gauge!) enterprising locals have set up a tourist shuttle - powered by petrol engines the "trains" consist of a bamboo ...

... 2 minutes later I went away with 2 train tickets - one for a train on Sunday (12th) to Chandigarh and the other for the narrow gauge train from Kalka to Shimla in the foothills of the Himalayas on the 14th. Easy! Walked back up Main Bazaar to the hotel ...

... paved. It might be a hopping town in the summertime, but not today. This town is visited every day by the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad train on its scenic route through the canyons of the Animas River valley. One thing we notice is how the ...

... be here....we decided we wanted to go on a dinosaur hunt and go on 'La Trochita' or 'The Old Patagonian Express' - a narrow gauge steam railway nearby. Tuesday - Noelle went to her spanish lesson whilst I went to do some groudwork for the rest ...

... disembarked at the town of New Jalpaiguri, because the foothills climb too steeply for traditional trains. The British built the narrow gauge Darjeeling Himalayan Railway in 1881 to help transport people and tea from its outpost. Fondly called the "toy ...

... great views before we reached Coromandel town, where we went on the Driving Creek railway (google image) which was  a great little narrow gauge train ride. The track had been built by a local potter over 30 years who was using it to bring clay ...

... - it's an extremely inspiring day and you won't regret it!!   Today we head back down the south of the island - there is a narrow gauge steam train that runs a mile or two along the coast to Torosay castle and ever since I told John about it he's ...

... Liz to know it was built by convict labour and not by proper road builders. The next day we left for Carmel, visiting Roaring Camp narrow gauge railroad on the way. Yes another railway but it was a chance to see some Redwood trees at the same time. ...

... was just one underwater tunnel too many for us. By the exit was a discovery room with some barely informative exhibits including a narrow corridor with black leather padding fitted to the walls, and as you squeezed your way through them and out the other ...

... of the islands.    Our first stop, Maadhoo, has a large reef and sandy lagoon around it. We walk 50 metres across the narrow island and park on the east side, on plastic lounge chairs in the shade of a palm tree. The island, while technically ...

... winds but these were nudging the Vision, something I haven't experienced before. Very happy to get into Chilliwack esp. the narrow, long overpass leading into its approach. The blue skies and huge clouds frame the mountains all around the city. ...

... have said "clinging on for dear life", it sounded about as appealing. So we stuck to the rim this time, admiring the narrow canyon from several different viewpoints and looking down over the sheer drops to the rushing river below. At the far end of the ...

... what I remember it had lots of oriental looking buildings and a little tower which we climbed had a really narrow stair case so Ted Dexter would be out of gauge for this place got some great pics though, Finally it was off to Tanah Lot temple of the sea ...

... Clitheroe, a Catholic lady who was pressed to death for hiding Jesuit priests during the Reformation. A walk through the Shambles (a narrow lane once home to thirty or more butchers) completed the tour and we were left to our own devices. Our ...