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[winterbadger]

I love Scotland.

I enjoy trains tremendously.

But £5,150 for a one-week trip around Scotland on a train?

Yes, I know it's a luxury train, with all sorts of super food, beyond-first-class accommodation, and fascinating side-trips.

But let's be real: their version of the Orient Express is only £5,790 for a longer trip over a much greater distance and more exotic locales.

Both my current and former wives think me an appalling spendthrift, but I can't see laying out that kind of dosh for a train trip, no matter how super the train!

For considerably less than £1,000, NJ and I (and up to two friends) could spend a week pottering about the UK or Europe on a canal boat. And we could even bring the cats!

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[winterbadger]

Well, there is that. But since we're going to be subjecting American cats to strange, screen-less British windows, they had better be good with the balance thing to begin with (*has vision of cat jumping up into window, realising there is no screen, and overbalancing in surprise out the open window* ground floor falt, maybe?).

And cats can swim fine; they just don't *like* doing it...

I like the film idea, though. :-)