Ben Vient
Lebanon Daily News
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Past articles by Ben:
On the Rails: Tracking into cold and flu season
Winter is now on track. The onslaught of snow reminds us of the other winter onslaught to come: cold and flu season. → Read More
The arrival of Budapest’s Christmas tram
It arrived, every year into the house these dark December weeks. → Read More
On the Rails: A spirit of hospitality
“Your stop,” the Hungarian train conductor motioned to me, an hour and a half outside of Budapest. → Read More
On the Rails: The stuff of the season
I arrive in Salerno, Italy, suitcase in hand. → Read More
On the Rails: Gliding into the holidays, pt. 2
The faster we travel south on this train from northern Italy, the faster the snow and ice seem to fall. → Read More
On the Rails: Gliding into the holidays
In 1844, the writer Lydia Maria Child romanticized holiday travel, the stuff that dreams, and poems, were maybe made of, once upon a time. → Read More
On the Rails: Northward, into winter
“Please, take the winter coats. It will get colder now when traveling north." → Read More
The epic migration story
“Once we got to the train tracks, we knew the direction to go,” says Mohammed, recounting their journey of the last two weeks: first by foot and bus, out of Syria, through Turkey. “And into that sea, the sea of death,” he repeats, visibly shaken. He and his two friends boarded rafts to cross the Aegean Sea into Greece. “Then we searched for trains, and if we couldn’t get on, we learned to walk… → Read More