Top ten train tunes for a Traincation...

I'm currently in sunny, snow-kissed St Moritz in Switzerland, hanging with the overtly moneyed clientele of this admittedly beautiful ski and spa resort. I've just been for a walk across the frozen lake below where they hold horse races, the world's only Polo tournament (yes, it's that sort of town) played on snow and rather bizarrely an annual cricket match on ice. Is it just me or are they perhaps slightly desperate to prove that yes you can do all these things on ice...amazing! Thankfully there's no D-list celebrities attempting to dance on the frosty surface so that's one slight relief...

In town I realised I was too late for the day's bobsleighing action on the famed Cresta Run, they apparently start very early in the morning at 8am so my leisurely stroll into town around 10.30 meant I missed the whole lot. So early breakfast for me tomorrow as there is something rather alluring and strangely fascinating about wanting to hurl yourself down an ice chute on a canteen tray with ice skates underneath (sorry, toboggan).

Anyway, having run the gauntlet of extreme up market shopping opportunities, Cartier, Versace, Rolex etc and weaved my way amongst the milling idle rich, old, ugly grey men and flamboyantly coiffed ladies with leathery botoxed faces and tiny ratty mutts on leads or tucked under their arms like expensive hand-bags-to-be (well post-expiration taxidermy is not a bad way to end up, and so practical too!) I am now off for a full body massage to ease away the 'pains' of the day...maybe I'm getting too into this whole malarkey?

So, in an idle few minutes before going to get rubbed down I compiled this list of my Top Ten train songs to accompany the 'Traincation' that I'm currently on. I'm not wholly wedded to the name, last year's 'staycation' felt a bit try-hard and I've had my own mixed success trying to encourage the uptake of 'frucool' (which some wag on the Guardian said was as bad as 'chillax' and would only be used by 'twunts!), but traincations could well be the travel phenomenon of 2010 so who am I to argue! Besides they are BRILLIANT and having been doing them since 2003 when I gave up flying on holiday I obviously agree with the sentiment!

Ok, enough already, here's the list and now to go and get hit by a very friendly steam-roller, sorry masseuse...

1. “Engine 54” The Ethiopians
2. "Big Rock Candy Mountain" by The Highwaymen
3. "Chattanooga Choo Choo" by Cab Calloway
4. “Box car blues” Boxcar Willie
5. “Train to Skaville” The Ethiopians
6. "I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow" by Johnny Cash
7. "Last Train to Clarksville" by Four Tops
8. "Long Train Runnin'" by The Doobie Brothers
9. “Midnight Special” by Creedence Clearwater Revival
10. “Stop that train” Bob Marley & the Wailers