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Travelling around the world

A lot of you must have been abroad, visited foreign countries and cities. If so, then you must have seen how different people are, and how often culture, customs and even everyday life can vary greatly. Cars and buses, trams and other means of transport are everywhere, but still, there are differences in travelling! Let’s see a few examples.

London (England)

London (Anglia)
What springs to your mind first when you hear London’s name? Probably the large, red, two-floor buses. These so-called double-deckers are really very characteristic of the city, but the black cabs of London are equally famous and popular around the world. Those who live there, however, usually travel by underground within the city, since London is a vast and very densely inhabited place. Above-ground travel would not be enough to transport so many people, and undergrounds also help avoid traffic jams.
London (Anglia)
But what is the biggest difference between travelling in London and in Miskolc? Well, the steering wheel is on the right-hand side in English cars, so they drive on the other side of the road!

Vienna (Austria)

Bécs (Ausztria)
Public transport in Vienna is similar to ours, there are buses and trams. However, Vienna is a capital city, it is larger than Miskolc, and more people live there, so a bigger variety of means of transport is needed. So there are underground and suburban train lines as well. If you go to Vienna, you may find a few vehicles very familiar! You wonder which ones? Of course the trams! The red trams that you can see in Miskolc used to work in Vienna. That is where we bought them from, but there are still some left.

Tokyo (Japan)

Tokyo has the highest population of all the cities of the world, so it is no easy task to transport them all. They have buses and trams, of course, but the most important means of transport is the underground. The most striking vehicle, however, is the high-speed train that connects cities. It looks as if it would transport you directly into the future. The specially developed and streamlined engines can pull 16 carriages with speeds up to 160 km an hour.