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Getting around in Nova Anglicana

#1: Getting to Nova Anglicana

There are three ways to get to Nova Anglicana: land, sea, and air. Land or air are probably the most convenient. Coming to Nova Anglicana by sea typically means you're taking a cruise, though some choose to come by sea from other countries.

There are two ways to come to Nova Anglicana by land: by car or by train. Either way, your best bet is through Quebec or through Maine. Traveling from Maine, the first major city you'll encounter is probably Durovernum Cantiacorum, the southernmost city in New Brunswick, though if you're taking Highway 95 all the way to Canada, you'll run into Vinovium instead. Traveling from Quebec, you can either take Route 138 from Quebec City north all the way up to Sept-Iles, or you can cut east and arrive in Edmundston, in the northwestern corner of New Brunswick. The train is largely the same: a southern rail line from Maine to Durovernum Cantiacorum, or a northern rail line from Maine to Vinovium. There is also train service between Quebec City and Sept-Iles or between Riviere-du-Loup and Edmundston. 

By air, there are a few ways to come as well: again, if you're coming from Maine, Boston, or New York, you can fly in to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, or Prince Edward Island, and if you're coming from Quebec City or Montreal, you can fly in to Sept-Iles, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, or Prince Edward Island. Getting to Londinium is a little trickier from the US; you'll likely have to get a connection out of Eboracum or another Nova Anglican airport. There are direct flights out of Montreal. Mancunium, unfortunately, is inaccessible to international flights. If you're coming from Europe, you will likely fly directly into Londinium. It will be a long flight, as it is trans-Atlantic. There are two principal carriers in Nova Anglicana: NovaAir and LionAir. Despite the one sounding like a state-owned company and the other like a budget airline, neither is true. They are both privately owned and compete with each other on price, availability, and quality of travel. Wherever you're flying to Nova Anglicana from, you will almost certainly be on one of those two airlines.

By sea, you can take a ferry from Bar Harbor, Maine to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The trip will take you across the Gulf of Maine and features all the amenities you'll need for your 3.5 hour journey. Eat, drink, do some duty-free shopping, watch a movie, take in the air and water above deck, there's even a children's play area. There isn't a ferry from Quebec, but you can take a pleasure cruise from Quebec City up the St. Lawrence River that stops in Sept-Iles, or you can take a ferry from Matane on the Gaspe Peninsula to Godbout, both in Quebec, and then drive to Sept-Iles. You can also take a ferry back and forth from Anticosti Island to Sept-Iles.

Getting around in Nova Anglicana

So now you're here in Nova Anglicana and you want to travel around a bit. How do you do that? Well, any of Nova Anglicana's largest municipalities have airports that can get you to any other city in Nova Anglicana. This is how you get to Mancunium up in Labrador; take a flight from Sept-Iles, Londinium, Portus Abonae, or Aquae Sulis for the shortest trip. You can also take chartered flights at several small domestic airports scattered across the country. Airports are owned by the municipalities, but flights are privately operated; the Nova Anglican Interior Ministry provides security checks and air marshals at all airports. 

If you want to travel by land, you're in luck! Nova Anglicana has spent massively on improving infrastructure across its provinces, so renting a car and driving around is easy. However, it also maintains a strong public transport system, both in and out of urban areas. Most large cities will have either a metro/subway/light rail system for getting around the city and the surrounding area, and bus service is ubiquitous in cities with a population of 25,000 or more. Residents of urban areas often take public transport to work, and those in the suburbs often find that driving to the station and taking the metro into work is preferable to fighting traffic.

Traveling across the country can be done via several private long-distance bus services or by renting a car, but the best way to travel by land in Nova Anglicana is by train. The state-owned NovaRail system connects cities in the various provinces of Nova Anglicana and is widely regarded as an efficient and affordable way to travel within or between provinces. The major lines are of course between the major cities, but many mid-sized towns have railway stops and there are several spur lines, so no place in Nova Anglicana is often too far from a railway stop. There is high-speed rail or TGV (train a grande vitesse) in Nova Anglicana; currently, it only operates between the New Brunswick Triangle of Vinovium-Durovernum Cantiacorum-Noviomagus. Drive times between those three cities range from an hour and fifteen minutes to about two hours, while the high-speed rail can make it in roughly half the time. There are plans to expand it from Noviomagus to Eboracum and Eboracum to Pons Aelius next.

As for sea travel, Nova Anglicana is a maritime country, so there are connections by ferry to various provinces. For example, you can travel from Durovernum Cantiacorum in New Brunswick to Nova Scotia by ferry across the Bay of Fundy, or from Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, or Newfoundland. There is also ferry service from Newfoundland to Nova Scotia and from the northern tip of Newfoundland over to eastern Quebec or southern Labrador.

Nova Anglicana is a lovely place to visit, and offers a variety of comfortable, convenient, and affordable travel options. Our next segment will focus on cuisine of Nova Anglicana, or what you can expect to chow down on once you've entered the country.