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Web Site of the Week: Seat 61

Locations in this article:  London, England

Laptop Typing Web SiteEach week, our intrepid Internet traveler Johnny Jet brings you an interesting new Web site to help you travel better.

Whether it’s tracking airfare prices or finding out what the weather’s like in your destination or even remembering all the flights you’ve taken, these Web sites can really improve your travels.

This week, he’s got a site that helps you to find out how to get great seats when you’re traveling by train.

So take it away, Johnny …

For those who prefer to travel by train or ship, you must bookmark this Web site.It was created by Mark English, an Englishman and career railway-man.

He has worked for railways or train stations for most of his life and loves to travel by train and boat.

He has ridden on trains and ships all over the world and now, he’s created a site to help passengers do the same.

His site provides info on travel within the UK and Ireland (including train times and fares) and shows how to travel from the UK to destinations all over Europe (including London to Cyprus). There’s info on trains in Asia, Africa, America and Australasia.

In case you’re wondering, he came up with the site’s name because he always traveled in Eurostar’s first class.

He would reserve seat 61 (in cars 7, 8, or 11) because this seat is one of a pair of individual seats with a table that actually lines up with the window.

It’s knowledge like this that helps him achieve his goal of ensuring that people can travel over land comfortably and affordably– even to places where you might have thought that air was the only option.

Johnny Jet can be found online at JohnnyJet.com.

Check out previous Web Sites of the Week:

Airfare Price Tracking – Yapta

What’s the Weather? – Weather Underground

Flight Tracking- Flight Memory

And don’t forget to check out tons more online resources in our Travel Resource Links section.