As penniless students sleeping on the beach, as new parents with travel cot and buggy in tow, and as newly retired tourers with hire car. Hard to pick the best leg of the journey, but pulling in to Calvi station at dusk along the sweeping sandy beach takes some beating.
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To enter the latest competition visit the readers' tips homepage. The most fabulous train journey I have ever done was from Kiruna in north Sweden to Narvik in Norway. Blue, white, grey and black with the occasional red of a wooden house or a splash of dark green from conifers, colour the landscape.
The views across the snow-capped mountains and the endless lakes are phenomenal. The Esk Valley line, operated by Northern Rail, takes you from Middlesbrough to the seaside town of Whitby in 90 minutes. The route is only 30 miles, but there are 17 stations as you pass through the North York Moors national park. At Battersby, the driver swaps ends, as the train does a switchback.
Names such as Kildale, Commondale and Castleton Moor provide an insight into the type of scenery to expect as you follow the course of the River Esk, while at Grosmont you might catch a glimpse of the more touristy steam train. A friend and I took the train from Glasgow to Mallaig for a short trip in February. The journey began with the line passing through industrial estates and residential areas but eventually the buildings stopped and we began to climb. The wind whipped around the train, especially higher up, sending flurries of snow with it.
