By Mark Ellwood, AJOT.com; March 28 2019
At Bloomberg Pursuits, we love to travel. And we always want to make sure we’re doing it right. So we’re talking to globetrotters in all our luxury fields—food, wine, fashion, cars, real estate—to learn about their high-end hacks, tips, and off-the-wall experiences. These are the Distinguished Travel Hackers.
Journalist and author Monisha Rajesh was born in the U.K. to expat Indian parents. Although she spent two years of her childhood living in India, she wanted to return as an adult with a specific goal. “I don’t like flying, and I wanted to see the country from a tourist’s perspective,” Rajesh explains, “And I knew that the railway network went right into the nooks and crannies of the country.” So she spent $540 on a second-class, three-month pass on a trip that birthed her first book, Around India in 80 Trains. Now, seven years later, she’s expanded her rail explorations beyond India, trekking 45,000 miles around the world for her latest book, Around the World in 80 Trains (Bloomsbury Publishing, $18), which hit bookshelves on Tuesday, March 26.