I love a long train journey. My longest, so far, was Barons Court to Shanghai in 2013; starting on the Piccadilly Line in London and ending on the maglev train (268 mph) to Shanghai airport.
There are few people who live their lives to the full and write about it. There are more than a few that have done either the former or the latter but not both.
The second volume of Chips Channon’s Diaries, edited by Simon Heffer, will be released on Thursday. It covers the period 1938 – 1943, so quite a lot saved up for the third volume.