AVE

Spain is fast becoming the country with the longest high speed railway network in the world.

A lengthy report on the BBC uses the story to highlight the lack of progress in the UK and the tentative steps in the USA to get cracking on high speed rail.

As you know, we went on the Madrid Atocha to Cordoba AVE service (and the then decrepit Madrid to Barcelona train) in 2003, which was absolutely brilliant.

Sex in the news

A new slant on cargo cults:

A cult leader in Papua New Guinea fled naked into the jungle after being confronted by police over allegations that he'd forced followers to have sex in public, with the promise that it would boost the banana harvest.

Good things come to people who have lots of sex. That's hardly news. Maybe it could be adopted by Wall Street bankers to get out of their crisis.

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