Chris lore

[royal python]

Lol

Sad

[brittle remnant]

Yeah I'm there now

It's extremely communism bad

And then you get sections where you can swap the Soviet perspective for the American one and you would only have to change proper nouns

Which is usually how this stuff goes

Here's the specific text Sophie mentioned

[royal python]

Very spooky

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They then had a studio apartment set up to show how bad it was

Student housing is on average smaller

[royal python]

Lol

And living conditions were probably worse before living there I assume

[brittle remnant]

That's the main thing with this anti-communism stuff

Sure some things were bad, but they all fail to show how things were before the communists came to power

Same for pro-capitalist stuff, they also tend to start in the 60's and only show American suburbia

[royal python]

No but chris if everyone lived in an amazon hyperloop-pod with kitchen dlc everything would have been solved

[brittle remnant]

DRM on fucking trains

[rich hatch]

kitchen dlc

[formal quarry]

Chris RegioMouse when

[brittle remnant]

Not

[formal quarry]

Sadge

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Let's go see the castle now then

Obscenely large groups of tourists here

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Made it out

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Good place to have binoculars

[oblique adder]

The tv tower is cool in the evening

they light it up

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Swedish embassy visited✅

So many fucking weed stores

Italian and Romanian embassies are practically across the street from one another

Nederlander heard

Luhansk "independence" supporter

Spotted a gyaru in a miniskirt

The same one I saw this morning

Why do Popular tourist spots be so fucking busy

Lekker persen

[oblique adder]

That's just the BMW colour

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BMW is a russia supporter

I didn't know it could go slower

But this fucking kerstmarkt

Mall with 5 floors

McDonald's without seating

Metro is very deep

I don't think I've ever been in a proper subway deep underground

Only the surface level or shallow shit of Barcelona, Rotterdam and Paris

It happened again

This McDonald's has a power outlet : 🎉

[royal python]

Yippee

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It's already pretty dark out

What to do with the rest of the day?

[hushed umbra]

trein fappen praha hln

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Ngl I'd rather go back to the hostel and watch YT videos

[oblique adder]

City centre is nice in the dark too

tv tower

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I can see the TV tower from my hostel

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Zou mijn bonuskaart hier geldig zijn?

Nee maar hij is blijkbaar wel van ahold

Honden van het hostel hebben m'n bed weer "opgeruimd"

Al het beddegoed is gwn neergetyft maar wel afgehaald

[brittle remnant]

You can windowhang the Prague metro it seems

Did not try, can't recommend

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I figured out Teun's problem

TIL Leo express is renfe

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I was wondering why the routes to Amsterdam were all weird

They have platform numbers here, not track numbers

Train home time

[CD] EC176 Praha hl. n. - Berlin Hbf 8:28-12:43

Guy on platform has been kissing this girl for 5 minutes now

Surely they gotta come up for air eventually?

Guy got onto the train

Instantly picked up some other girl's bag

And they say chivalry is dead

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Conductor saying tickets please but not checking anyone, just walking through the carriage

Ah he came back for it

[brazen mantle]

trolled

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Gotta love almost never having your ticket checked and then having it checked twice on one train

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Berlin Hbf time

Next train at 14:06

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The station is extremely sterile

[oblique adder]

Berlin? Yes

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Yes

All other (West) German stations look like what the West imagines what Eastern Europe looks like

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It's happening

IC142 Berlin Hbf - Deventer probably

200kmh raamhangen

[brazen mantle]

geniet ervan

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Dank u

[oblique adder]

nice you got lucky

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Yeah very

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Poah

200kmh raamhangen sure is something else

Anyway came back to my seat and someone had claimed it >:(

We didn't even stop anywhere

Good thing I got a reservation it's so fucking packed on this train

[oblique adder]

if you get up you lose your reservation

just raamhang all the way

[brittle remnant]

Nah

I don't enjoy raamhanging that much

But it was good because it was a couple doing PDA

Can't be having that

I also needed to get up to piss

Sehr geehrte Fahrgäste, die Bordbistro bleibt geschlossen

[oblique adder]

shame

[oblique adder]

wow

[royal python]

Klm train

Klm train

[royal python]

R A R E

[royal python]

:(

[brittle remnant]

Loud people :(

They're not even Dutch

Only 1 loud person

Path of loud guy going up and down the wagon was blocked by girl who no doubt requested he shut the fuck up

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More than half of everyone got out on Osnabrück

[formal quarry]

IC Berlin moment

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Cool manual doors

I cant find NSI incheckpalen on the platform here

Found it

Zo fucking veel borden en er nog tussenin gaan staan

[royal python]

Lol

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Map update

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Status 2023

Netherlands

I 100%ed the Netherlands this year

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/142724111502802944/1051912414964224060/image.png?ex=6592f547&is=65808047&hm=3e9a028f6b32aad045d889fd39c98556766d33c1db1d8bc482849bcf10a4a4dd&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=546&height=676

This is what I had left a year ago

[minor cave]

Very cool

[rich hatch]

Very good

[stable cloak]

You need more east

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Alles op z'n tijd

[stable cloak]

Een jaar is veel tijd

[oblique adder]

chris Narva

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I'd love to do this one day

[oblique adder]

did this, can recommend

[royal python]

looks very cool

big loop

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Speedrunning this takes like a week

Not that hafas will tell me

Because Riga doesn't exist

[oblique adder]

yeah this took me a month

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Hmm

Looking at the other trip I've estimated at a month

This is a sleeper train

I hate these times

[oblique adder]

lol

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Ürümqi to Almaty, the second leg departs late on monday and arrives on Wednesday morning

[oblique adder]

huh didnt know china had international trains there

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Now with covid they don't

But they used to

Helder

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Mission turkmenistan fail

I don't want to russia

Bruh there's no Georgia-Turkey passenger trains either

seat61 says go to batumi, take a bus, walk across the border, take another bus to Kars

This takes the entire day

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This, when trains start up between Georgia and Turkey (No idea how it goes through Kazakhstan, the trip planner had every station on the route on oppose it ends of the country) , takes 17 days if all goes well

But there's a bunch of trains that only run a few times a week

Rough indication

Thinking you could do this in a month would be naive

The Caspian sea boat doesn't even run on a schedule

[brazen mantle]

again

we should bring back the Soviet Union for fapping purposes

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I'll let Putin know

[formal quarry]

Chris China too

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This is a very long term plan

China needs to open up properly w.r.t. covid

Georgia and Turkey should start the Tbilisi - Kars passenger train

Because passing through Turkmenistan legally is going to be difficult

[formal quarry]

If it all works out, I will be visiting China before I return to NL/CH around this summer, so I better make some sort of HSL + Great Wall plan too

[brittle remnant]

Ok

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Do realise the goal of this trip is not to visit China, but to waste my time

Knowing me, if I had that kinda money I'd get so bored I'd book a flight out of Nur Sultan back to Europe

[formal quarry]

Plenty of trains in China to waste your time in though

[brittle remnant]

Only 1 direct Beijing West - Ürümqi

It might be more interesting to do it in legs

Take 2 weeks off and go Beijing - Nur Sultan
Then Nur Sultan - Baku the next time

[formal quarry]

opzi.ch

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Instead of taking 2 months off to do the whole thing and then have a storm on the Caspian and not able to complete the mission

[formal quarry]

Or, more likely, getting Covid-24

[brittle remnant]

I'll get the embassy to bail me out

[royal python]

Yes pls pls pls

[hushed umbra]

When shower

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This involves a lot of hotels

[hushed umbra]

chris not showering for 17 days straight

[cinder lichen]

sounds schimmelig

[brittle remnant]

I adore Jasper's insistence on not reading

Illiterate people 🥰

Also I was always planning to stay in places for a few days and not speedrun this

[oblique adder]

Chris gamer

[hushed umbra]

chris stinky

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Plans

[minor cave]

Very nice have fun

[stable cloak]

i was gonna say we will kruis sittard but this is not for tomorrow

[cinder lichen]

nice

euregioticket?

[brittle remnant]

Yes

I also wanna do the funicular in Spa

Is the best way to Binche avoiding Brussels C via Liège and Namur?

(for unrelated trip)

Hmm

I could do both Namur and Gent

[brazen mantle]

you can also Leuven Ottignies Charleroi

or brussel noord namur

[cinder lichen]

binche is rechtstreeks from schaarbeek

thats most easy

or brussel noord

you can do mechelen and take that s train that bypassen the big brussels stations

[brazen mantle]

you don’t understand

[cinder lichen]

me and soph did this one

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You don't understand

[brazen mantle]

yes

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I cannot pass Brussel Centraal

[brazen mantle]

there’s s treinen

is there like a Vilvoorde Halle one

[cinder lichen]

i mean, you not want to pass or not to overstap the brussel stations?

[brittle remnant]

Pass

Important

[cinder lichen]

https://trainlog.me/public/trip/8016

you can do this

idk if there is a route via leuven-ottignies-charleroi

maybe somthing via gent-geraardsbergen too

[brazen mantle]

you could even brussel noord Aalst Brussel zuid

[cinder lichen]

bru noord-ottignies-charleroi

brunoord walk bruzuid.

[brazen mantle]

yeah

or

metro

this is probably the actual most efficient option

[brittle remnant]

Doesn't the metro run parallel to the railways between Noord and Zuid?

But yeah the Etterbeek bypass S-trein is a fun option

[brazen mantle]

no it doesn’t

it runs down the main north south street

[brittle remnant]

Ah centraal is a badkuip

[brazen mantle]

what

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Like the oostvaardersplassen

[brazen mantle]

oh

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Thinking of maybe also getting Luxembourg on Belgium Youth Holidays

Maybe even Luxembourg 100% depends on the amount of baustelle

[oblique adder]

as if

[stable cloak]

In what holidays

[brittle remnant]

Voorjaars

So late feb

That's the one

It's the only one

That's still quite a bit

[stable cloak]

If you need zuidelijke nevenlijnen it is

Idk if rumelsnge line will run then

[brittle remnant]

Good reisadvies

Line out of service

[minor cave]

Binche

[cinder lichen]

BINCHE!!!

[minor cave]

I love you Chris

Have fun

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How do you get on the castle in Binch?

[cinder lichen]

just walk upthere.

should be public open park

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Google streetview shows hekken everywhere

[cinder lichen]

not sure if they open those at certain times. like daytime

but i remember when tour was there you could just walk into it

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hmm

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I hate everything about this in hindsight

[oblique adder]

what went wrong again

[brittle remnant]

The RE40 split, and the side I had went north

So I ended up having to go via Cheb

So you said "What if you go via Cheb" and 3 minutes later I unintentionally had to go via Cheb

[oblique adder]

right

This isn't as funny as when I told a guy he was gonna get run over

[brittle remnant]

That is pretty funny ye

[stable cloak]

that sounds funny yeah

[hushed umbra]

Joris

[hushed umbra]

Nah when shit goes wrong with trains, its hella funny

[brittle remnant]

I am very tempted to get an interrail pass

Just a 10 day one, the 15 day one I already have I wanna use in April or May or smth

[brittle remnant]

Not that I have much of a plan

I wanna visit the Bastei near Dresden. That looked really cool on Sophie's thread

[cinder lichen]

just do it.

or meme germany with a deutschland ticket

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Same with Saarland

I guess I could Deutschland ticket in March

Getting your money's worth on Deutschland ticket is relatively easy

[cinder lichen]

and if you plan alright with some interesting stops inbetween you dont need to hurry

is brockenbahn actually included in d tickets?? looks cool in winter

[brittle remnant]

Nope

That line is specifically excluded

Oh I see now that Izy Wazzy

Shame

Izy tickets were really cheap

Guess I'll Tourcoing if I wanna save money on France

Oh the landecoupons are for 2 days, not just one

2 consecutive days

Ye okay that's a pretty decent deal then

€20 a day in Germany, instead of €40

Same reservation requirements as Interrail it seems

[brittle remnant]

Wait you only pay tax over these

[cinder lichen]

izy is long gone. you can regular tgv from brussels too. if i remember correctly the youth fare to lille is pretty low. but soph knows

But brusselaar to antwerp and IC to Lille is pretty fast too.

around noon lille is very doable.

[brittle remnant]

This means €10ish dagkaart DB

And next year I can 4x9 and I can "thuis"werken more

[brittle remnant]

Soph always knows

🙏

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Are plane tickets ridiculously cheap because early in the year, or because it's pretty last minute?

[brazen mantle]

I think both matter

but as a general rule in europe plane travel is cheap in winter

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Right

[brazen mantle]

because there basically a lot of overcapacity for the summer peak

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@oblique adder Eindhoven-Alicante €20 several times this month

Mostly on Tuesdays

I wanna go in April but seems like flights aren't really an option then

Guess I'll go over land wherever I go

No Manchester airport for me

[cinder lichen]

januari februari are just cheap months, not much demand because most people had there holidays and spent all money in december

[brittle remnant]

Yeah but December was also quite cheap

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There's a reasonably priced hostel in the Luxembourg city centre, as far as they go, but you can't book from Friday to Saturday

You're free to book Thursday to Saturday or Friday to Sunday tho

€35 a night non-refundable

And ye the price doesn't seem to change much at all

I wonder if this is why it wasn't there when I wanted to use this in November

Location is a lot nicer than Esch

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All the trains I'm definitely taken added to the map

I can go back from Binche by going Midi - Gent - Antwerp, but I might do a more stupid route depending on how much time I have

[cinder lichen]

via geraardsbergen-gent is fun. dieselline

[brittle remnant]

Ah like that

I was thinking halle-geraardsbergen-Denderleeuw

Mons-Geraardsbergen-Gent

Let's go

That is all I can pretty much do and still make it home

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Bussen regio Schengen

"Fiets maar lekker 2,5 uur"

This is for a Deutschlandticket trip

[cinder lichen]

🤣

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Hotel booked for this one

And yes, hotel, not hostel

Cheapest place to stay in Saarbrücken was a proper double room for €31 with free cancellation

8.8 on booking.com, last room they had

[oblique adder]

Schengen is good

[brittle remnant]

Have you really planned a railtrip if you're not leaving the hotel by 7 AM at the latest?

[oblique adder]

I usually leave between 8 and 9

[cinder lichen]

bad you want to leave like when in lille. especially if you went beer night before without bodem

7am is fine.

31€ good deal.no breakfast included?

[brittle remnant]

Breakfast is usually €39,39 at hotels

I've never gone to one where it was included

It's never really worth

I can get a decent breakfast for less than €6, drink included, in most places

[cinder lichen]

idk i seen it included when looking hotels in germnay quite often. and when its about 6€ generally th egerman ones are really big and uitgebreid and well worth

[brittle remnant]

Booking.com cheapest I've seen is like €8

[cinder lichen]

french is never worth it lol. croissant+coffee+orang ejuice is average french breakfast.

[brittle remnant]

But usually they start after I intend to have left

I'll just get something at Lidl

[cinder lichen]

I think i had the wetzlar hotel for 42€ incl. you couldn't book without. and it was a massive buffet style breakfast with eveything you'd wish. incl more luxury stuff like smoked salmon.

in a pretty small and basic hotel.

[brittle remnant]

Ah ye I remember it was included at the hotel in Storlien

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I should go to Middelburg

[stable cloak]

what is wrong with you

[brittle remnant]

It looks like a really nice city

[stable cloak]

tbh it's cosy yeah

[brittle remnant]

I'll do this in summer

[stable cloak]

i was there like hemelvaart 2020 i think

and couple other times as well

[brittle remnant]

I'm thinking of combining it with RTM

[formal quarry]

Chris hotel

Rich

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Specifiek de Arriva trein uit Aachen die ik morgen wilde hebben rijdt niet

"gebrek aan personeel"

[hushed umbra]

arriva

[royal python]

arriva

[rich hatch]

er rijdt morgen amper wat idd

[hushed umbra]

gewoon niet arrivaen

lekker viassen

[brazen mantle]

of keolissen

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Euregioticket

[stable cloak]

Bus kerkrade centrum

[brittle remnant]

Dat is ook Arriva

[stable cloak]

Klopt

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Ik blijf wel gwn wat langer in Spa, of haal gwn wat te eten in Aachen tot er wel een trein is

Of een TVV bus

[stable cloak]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/aPjEYe7be5LucNm79

Aanrader

Wel cash meenemen

You can train + bus there with euregioticket

[oblique adder]

Stop recommending this random ass schnitzel place lmao

[stable cloak]

It was good

[formal quarry]

You stole this from me

[stable cloak]

I stole it from going there

Wouter stole it from you

[formal quarry]

And Wouter didn’t even want to go there in the first place but after I convinced him he didn’t regret it

Moral of the story: listen to my suggestions

[stable cloak]

No

[formal quarry]

It’s very good value for your Bargeld

[oblique adder]

So is basically every restaurant in rural germany

[brittle remnant]

Hmmm

I've been thinking too much about Eupen

But I have a whole hour to fill in Verviers, and only half an hour in Eupen

[oblique adder]

There's nothing to do in eupen

[brittle remnant]

There really isn't

But I have half an hour and a solo speed-walking tour that I can finish in that time in ease

With 10 more minutes I could visit the hole

🤔

[cinder lichen]

neither in verviers

[brittle remnant]

Verviers is bigger

So a walking tour to see absolutely everything there is to see takes longer

[cinder lichen]

there is absolutely nothing to see there

its a shithole, even more shithole then molenbeek

average days in verviers

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Rare

2923 Den Bosch - Maastricht 8:08+4-9:30

This is looking a lot fancier than I remember

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7/10 too much water

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16922 Maastricht - Liège-Guillemins 10:18-10:50

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Blue ICE

508 Liège-Guillemins - Eupen 11:03-11:43

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Claxon at every tunnel

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Made the Eupen Run Hike Run with 5 minutes to spare

@royal python Kein trinkwarer

I present: Eupen and Nispert in 30 minutes

I didn't expect there to be a fucking mountain between these places

Trying to squeeze the Nispelt hole into it made it a lot more fun

535 Eupen - Verviers Central 12:17-12:37

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6883 Verviers Central - Spa-Géronstère 12:54-13:22

[brazen mantle]

love the Eupen station building

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It doesn't connect to the platform, the tracks that used to be there have been torn up

Train just left +4

First ticket check of the day

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@royal python anti-shoutout naar deze in Pouhon Pierre-le-Grand, Spa

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En een dikke shout-out voor bronwatertap

Bonus points for right in front of funicular

One for guests, one for plebs

I got a €3 return ticket tho

You can hike down, good views

Deze hike was niet worth

[cinder lichen]

spa mountain expedition

your trvale has a high TTT vibe

[brittle remnant]

Spa is famous for its mineral water and le Thermes de Spa but we’re not here to see any of that.

[hushed umbra]

holy shit dat is het bankje waar rik op zijn reet is gegaan en vervolgens elke frans les voor dat jaar hebben uitgelachen dat het eruit zag alsof hij het in zijn broek had gedaan

goeie tijden

[brittle remnant]

Lore

[brazen mantle]

we’re not here to see any of that

[brittle remnant]

Ohja kut

[brittle remnant]

Wietrokers

6865 Spa-Géronstère - Verviers Central 15:38-16:06

Stations in Spa

Spa is an absolutely lovely town

[brittle remnant]

Verviers, not so much

It's got mid-sized city with some history but no tourism sector vibes

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5016 Verviers Central - Aachen Hbf 16:52+4-17:25

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DB predicts +7

RB33 Aachen Hbf - Herzogenrath 17:37-17:52

Have to take this train to catch up to TVV, it smells like sewage, and there's a child screaming

[cinder lichen]

germany moment

[brittle remnant]

Yup

Geroodseind

15 minute train

Half the fucking bingo card

[minor cave]

Very good Chris

[brittle remnant]

POV: The train replacement bus is 5 min late, and it just pops up around the corner

Nice station tho

Vibes

TVV 945035 Herzogenrath - Heerlen 18:05+5-18:34

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3927 Heerlen - Eindhoven 18:49-19:51

[brittle remnant]

Finished the 4th Avatar novel

I'll have to take a different book with me on my next trip

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2972 Eindhoven - Den Bosch 20:04-20:22

Bus

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424km, 6h on trains

[cinder lichen]

chris träweling, good

[brittle remnant]

The hole™️ lies on a creek/river

makes sense

[brittle remnant]

New lines for today

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According to Wikipedia, Niedaltdorf in Saarland gets cross-border trains on Good Friday only

[cinder lichen]

@oblique adder !! Lore!!! and grand est rare track.

should check this in egtre though. wikipedia seems like a bad source

last year: https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/presse/presse-regional/pr-frankfurt-de/presseinformationen-regional/Karfreitagsmarkt-in-Bouzonville-Entspannt-und-guenstig-mit-dem-Sonderzug-ueber-die-Grenze-10461294

[brittle remnant]

6tpypd

[oblique adder]

Correct

[brittle remnant]

This is very tempting

[brittle remnant]

As it turns out, I'll have Deutschlandticket on Good Friday

[formal quarry]

Good

[brittle remnant]

If saarland daytickets are valid, what about Deutschlandticket?

[hushed umbra]

till the border probably

[brittle remnant]

Doesn't surprise me

[cinder lichen]

i doubt anybody cares for the few miles

plenty of places its valid till over the border too

[brittle remnant]

What's the cheapest way to get from Bouzonville to Luxembourg through France?

[stable cloak]

walking

[brittle remnant]

SNCF connect is a horrible service that a) keeps refusing to show prices b) keeps saying "whoopsie doopsie Imma yeet you back to the start" as if the UI wasn't infuriating enough

[still yarrow]

first time?

[brittle remnant]

Continue just yeets you back to the start

[rich hatch]

yes

[brittle remnant]

Well no

[rich hatch]

i get that every time i search for a connection

no exceptions

shit ass service

[brittle remnant]

I've used SNCF connect for the TGV from Lille to Barcelona and back to Rotterdam without much issue

But now I haven't been able to see a single price because either "oh noo we can't help oopsy woopsy :("

Or just "Error go back to start do not collect 100 dollaridoos"

[brittle remnant]

Please enlighten me. How do French tickets work?

[oblique adder]

they don't

bouzonville doesnt have french trains

so you wont find it lol

[brittle remnant]

bruh

"Car TER" is a bus then?

[stable cloak]

yes

[oblique adder]

car is a coach

[brittle remnant]

Honden

I see now why Bouzonville didn't have a blue name on ORM

[oblique adder]

its a freight line

its part of the super busy dunkerque - charleville - thionville - germany corridor

[stable cloak]

i know a british guy that lived in creutzwald for a while

saw it on the map

[cinder lichen]

the ter busees are genrally good, cheap and faster then trains.

[oblique adder]

horrible for the map tho

[brittle remnant]

Ye

[cinder lichen]

when looking up ter just use the ter website of the region instead sncf connect

[cinder lichen]

but chris isn't into 100% grand est like you i guess

[brittle remnant]

Still bad for the map

I've been considering doing Wuppertal and then home via Gronau just because this looks bad

[cinder lichen]

epic saturday timetable
https://ter-fiches-horaires.sncf.fr/publish/L03 du 10 déc au 5 juil.pdf

[cinder lichen]

that actually sounds like a fun thing. stop considering

[brittle remnant]

I'm intending to do this in March so that's a bit off

[cinder lichen]

so many fun routes through rurh from wuppertal to enschede.

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Bouzonville walking route

And yes that long walk is a "we're not here to see any of that" landmark

Should be able to fit this into the 1.5h until the next train after arriving

[cinder lichen]

dont wanna miss that train, take a year to get out else

some maria cave.

idk town may be buzzling interesting during those extra traisn and market stuff

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It's a 2 hour walk to my next destination in Niedaltdorf

And a 2 hour wait till the next train

[cinder lichen]

love how the ter busstop is shown as a trainstop

[rich hatch]

ter trainbus

[brittle remnant]

Rico lore takeover

[minor cave]

oh fuck this is your channel

sorry chris

[formal quarry]

https://tenor.com/view/first-time-meme-first-time-the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs-gif-24656975

[brittle remnant]

2021: 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇳🇴
2022: 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇩🇰 🇸🇪 🇳🇴
2023: 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇨🇭 🇨🇿
2024: 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇩🇪
Planned: 🇱🇺 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇨🇭

Just realised I haven't gone to Belgium all year in 2023

[formal quarry]

Good

[brittle remnant]

ICE Betuweroute 20-21-22 Februari wss

[minor cave]

Chris 3rd rail!!

[brittle remnant]

No

[brittle remnant]

Fake news media

[brittle remnant]

Ported the ovinnl posts to blogspot so I don't have to spam them for every trip, and I can still make a trip report every time

https://eratorailtrips.blogspot.com/

Ooooh Nürnberg looks really nice

[brittle remnant]

I spy with my little eye a remnant of the Braunschweig MBahn versuchsanlage

It's the small tunnel section in the bottom-right

[hushed umbra]

you will be trialed

[brittle remnant]

I will be Trialling the local railway museum

and the castle

[hushed umbra]

DB will trial you

in Nuremberg

centre of delays and cancellations

[brittle remnant]

But yuo see

The trains get cancelled in Nürnberg

Meaning it's easy to get to

Just hard to leave

[brittle remnant]

It's currently in use for storage or experiments or smth judging by the tyre marks into the tunnel at the other end

[cinder lichen]

tom soct went here i think

[verbal mantle]

soct

[cinder lichen]

they do testing cars by taking away windresistance or smothing

or smth like that

or i'm confusing stuff

but that screenshot of tunnel entrance seems veryvery familiar

[still yarrow]

that one was in the uk i believe

[brittle remnant]

This is streetview at the TU in Braunschweig

Tom has never done a video there

And a wind tunnel is a pretty big building

According to streetview, a car rental company in Braunschweig still has an old M-Bahn prototype as an eyecatcher

Autovermietung Schröder

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https://eratorailtrips.blogspot.com/2024/01/spa-day-6-jan-2024.html

[hushed umbra]

chris lore de website

[formal quarry]

chris lore de website

[brittle remnant]

Dan heb ik voor mezelf een fatsoenlijk overzicht, en hoef ik ovinnl niet te spammen

[oblique adder]

je mag best ovinnl volspammen

[brittle remnant]

Ja maar dan heb ik meer dan de helft van de posts daar

[hushed umbra]

Dan komt dtdelft

[oblique adder]

dpdelft boeit da niet

die zit nou toch in Roemenië ofzo

[hushed umbra]

Martijn modereren

[hushed umbra]

Met valentijn

[oblique adder]

gezellig

[formal quarry]

hmm, zal ik gewoon mijn polarsteps wat netter maken en dan ook ovinnl volspammen

we nemen de boel over met onze trips

[brittle remnant]

Ik heb gekeken naar polarsteps maar dat was eigenlijk net kut hiervoor

[oblique adder]

neem meer ov

[formal quarry]

voor beter ov

[formal quarry]

dat is wel het plan overigens, ik heb net een nachttrein naar bangkok geboekt vanuit het verste dat je kan gaan in noordoost-thailand en om daar te komen ga ik verschillende stop/sneltreinen overdag nemen

en ik ga kijken hoe makkelijk het is om vanaf Ranong naar een treinstation te gaan om zo ook weer de nachttrein naar Bangkok te nemen, die ik vorig jaar al had

maar wss wordt het vliegen omdat Ranong directe (en ook exclusief) vluchten heeft met Bangkok en tenzij je een privéchauffeur huurt, de route met minibusjes naar een station best wel om is, want ze stoppen niet in het plaatsje waar wel een station is op driekwart van de route

[formal quarry]

maar op zich heeft mijn Polarsteps zich prima bewezen in het OV van Thailand, Korea en Europa, enige is dat je de foto's niet tussendoor maar enkel bovenaan elke step hebt

[oblique adder]

spam them steps

that's what I do

[formal quarry]

j

steps > days good

[brittle remnant]

Het voldeed niet aan m'n wensen, en dat formulier helpte niet echt

En Max is toch de enige die het gebruikt

[oblique adder]

Ik gebruik t wel maar niet voor de memereizen

[brittle remnant]

Jij hebt er ook geen tekst bij staan

[oblique adder]

De interrails wel

[hushed umbra]

Chris lore

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Maarja ik heb het geprobeerd en vond het maar niets

[formal quarry]

Raisa, Julianne (dankzij mij dan wel), Sharon, Gwen, Brandon, Alex, mijn moeder, alle andere moeders, Gijs zijn oma, hopelijk binnenkort ook Hannah en Hanna en meer mensen gebruiken het ook gelukkig anders plaats ik voor niemand

[brittle remnant]

Dit zijn mensen die alleen jij kent

[formal quarry]

jij kent Brandon

en jij en Teun hebben Alex ontmoet in Breda, mooi

[brittle remnant]

this is kinda silly if you plot it on a map

But it made perfect sense

[royal python]

Where bus

[brittle remnant]

I don't add buses to this website

I also add my commutes to this, and bus would be way too much effort

[minor cave]

I hate this

[royal python]

Ah ok

[royal python]

Fair enough

[brittle remnant]

and also the routeplanning doesn't work at all

[royal python]

Even the ritnummers?

[minor cave]

no not those they are good

[oblique adder]

11401

[royal python]

Yess

[brittle remnant]

Only counting from Ht because that's all I did extra for this;
177km by train
20ish km by bus
90ish km by car
287km total

For about 750m of curve

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Cab rides

[formal quarry]

Mcn Erato

[brittle remnant]

Bijrijdersstoel ICNG is best kut eigenlijk

Je zit best ver naar achter, dus ik vind de machinist echt lastig te verstaan

[cinder lichen]

is this for work?

[brittle remnant]

Yes

I have to do cab rides as part of my training plan

[cinder lichen]

interesting. is this for the ermts only. or just general

[brittle remnant]

I've just been told to go take some trains

[cinder lichen]

lol

[brittle remnant]

I'm free to go any train I want while I have the cabinekaart

[cinder lichen]

so you just walk up to drivers and ask???

[brittle remnant]

Ye pretty much

[cinder lichen]

shouls hitch a hike to kijfhoek and do havenspoorlijn

or get on dolime train for the harenboog. 🤣

[brittle remnant]

I need a BVP and PMBs to do freight trains

I don't have either

[cinder lichen]

sad.

[brittle remnant]

Volgende trein om kwart over

[hushed umbra]

I have some pbm's you might be able to borrow

[brittle remnant]

So does the afdelingssecretaresse

It's already there

Can't go in yet tho, and no obvious door

[brittle remnant]

Opleidingsrit

Mooi

[hushed umbra]

dont forget raamhangen

[brittle remnant]

I will dw

[verbal mantle]

You should do this when I have stage

Id recommend DDZ bijrijderstoel

[formal quarry]

Chris x Wouter

[brittle remnant]

Time to home

[cinder lichen]

Gd and Ut

icm cab good?

[brittle remnant]

ICM cab great

Lots of buttons and switches

Instead of screens and a joystick

[minor cave]

4068

8633

[brittle remnant]

In total I did 454km yesterday, of which 373km in the cab

[brazen mantle]

efficiënt

[brittle remnant]

Yes

Backtracking Ht-Ut was very efficient indeed

Gd-Ut the stop was too short to properly do the script and getting the attention of the driver failed anyway, and it wasn't long enough to then ask the conductor, who might not have even been on my treinstel

Ut-Gd I made optimal use of the machinistenwissel

[minor cave]

Ritten?

[brittle remnant]

• are all cab rides

[royal python]

ICE and ICM cabrides 🥰🥰🥰

[brittle remnant]

Luxembourg hostel isn't available anymore for the dates I wanted to go to Luxembourg

[brittle remnant]

Reserved it for a different weekend

If I do end up booking something else if I go with someone else I can always cancel

[oblique adder]

thionville premiere class >>>

[cinder lichen]

Perl germany also had a cheap.hotel i noticed

[oblique adder]

Do the weekend only line into france

[brittle remnant]

If it exists, it's not cheaper than my Luxembourg city centre hostel

This is also true for perl

[cinder lichen]

thionville has two premiere classes. these are barely ever booked out except 1 day before

[oblique adder]

Private room is nice

I'm not gonna share my bedroom with strangers

[brittle remnant]

I don't care

Pussy

[minor cave]

Trier

I did this for Luxembourg

The airport hotel Teun and I took wasn't too busy either

[brittle remnant]

Trier has no accomodation cheaper than the Luxembourg city centre hostel

Airport hotel is cheaper if I had someone else to travel with

[minor cave]

And we even got the premium room

The lady asked if we are sure we aren't going to ibis budget

[royal python]

This is so bad

It's funny but like bruh

[brazen mantle]

it was kinda funny

we got geprofileerd as armoedzaaiers

[minor cave]

They were literally the same price I think

Or almost the same

[brazen mantle]

i think they were

you said

[minor cave]

So I don't know what's up with this

It still was not like a super nice hotel

It was just pretty alright and not shitty

[royal python]

Staff shouldn't be doing this was my point but yes funny that it happend anyway and especially given the small/no price difference

[brazen mantle]

yeah it was like nicer then ibis budget but it still wasnt very nice

there was a badkamer instead of a douchehoek

[minor cave]

I've never stayed in like a proper nice hotel

I should do this once to make me feel like I'm the man

Nicest place was Croatia airbnb

[brazen mantle]

nice

nice place we stayed was definitely vienna

did i show this off at the time

i mustve

[minor cave]

Airbnb is kinda hacks though

This was only for me

This was like 35 a night

[brazen mantle]

yes airbnb has good deals

but its also usually like kinda shady people

but you dont deal with this i guess as the costumer

[minor cave]

This also just ruins the housing market in cities

But this also isn't your problem I guess

[brazen mantle]

i dont think the housing market is generally the biggest problem

more the hotel supply

[minor cave]

Airbnb isn't worth if you're alone though

[brazen mantle]

neither are most hotel rooms

[brittle remnant]

This is the main problem with solo travel imho

[minor cave]

Hotels can be kinda worth

If it's less than twice as expensive than hostels it's more rendabel if your consider comfort I think

[brazen mantle]

i think when travelling alone hostels are also nice for some social interaction

[minor cave]

Yes but this is 50/50

[brazen mantle]

kinda yes

sometimes you just have boring guys

[minor cave]

I think I'm a boring guy

[brazen mantle]

to me you dont seem like a boring guy

but i could see you being a boring guy if youre alone

[brittle remnant]

Same

[minor cave]

There's just some weird types sometimes

[brittle remnant]

I'm perfectly okay sharing my room with strangers and having sometimes suboptimal beds

So I prefer to just be cheap

And usually a hotel room has bed space for 2 and is usually more than twice as expensive as a hostel bed as a result

[cinder lichen]

he needs to get aangeschoten first

[cinder lichen]

airbnb is good for multidays. especially so you can also prepare proper dinner,, without cashing a restaurant.

[brittle remnant]

I don't have the pics from my first international train trip anymore

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/142724111502802944/748240799455641650/DB_BR111_Arriva_FLIRT3.jpg?ex=65ba8b0c&is=65a8160c&hm=314b81d00529f9efc2c52244059cdc5008a7f4347736417e6648bc477dbdca3c&=&format=webp&width=901&height=676

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/142724111502802944/748159445451800616/IMG_20200826_134500.jpg?ex=65ba3f47&is=65a7ca47&hm=9541343181e94df27965a7d89c454679c23a248259368dc04d911132c907f91a&

This is all that remains

[oblique adder]

good enough

[brittle remnant]

I also quite liked the Aachener Dom

[cinder lichen]

br111

nice

[brittle remnant]

the ritnr for the trip to aachen was wrong

I somehow have a transfer from the IC to Heerlen to the IC to Heerlen in Sittard, according to Discord message history that's because train didn't continue to Maastricht

pretty sure my excel log was wrong there

Anyway, my very first international train trip is now on my blog

[royal python]

Very good

On ovinnederland or smth?

[brittle remnant]

https://eratorailtrips.blogspot.com/

First ones I put on here I did copy straight from OVinNL

[royal python]

Ah nope not there

[royal python]

Dank

[brazen mantle]

good design

it’s a bit René esque

[brittle remnant]

How the fuck was 9 euro ticket trip the same year as my Scandinavia interrail

[brittle remnant]

https://eratorailtrips.blogspot.com/2021/07/desiring-ardennes-9-jul-2021.html

Translated this

Made it back when I did the trip

[brittle remnant]

European sleeper accepts interrail. €44 couchette from Prague, and planned arrival good enough to go to work on Monday morning

[cinder lichen]

enjoy. what is price diff vs normal ticket

depending if you take other trains interrail may not be worth it. unless you have spare days anywau.

its a good meme

the couchettes are pretty worn tired though

But in low season like now and not peak summer heat i guess they are fine

[brittle remnant]

I need to get to Prague somehow

So that's fine

[brittle remnant]

My current travel plans bring me 1 line away from Belgian Luxembourg 100%

And it's fucking Bertrix-Athus

I suppose I could combine it with Boullion

[brazen mantle]

cool

[oblique adder]

[brazen mantle]

katgoedduimpjeomhooggoed

[royal python]

:katgoedduimpjeomhoogmooi:

[brazen mantle]

kak

[royal python]

[brittle remnant]

Hmm if I do Binche on a friday I could do a P-trein line

This one

Not too bad

[cinder lichen]

belgium adn lux 100%ing nice

[brittle remnant]

I need to 100% belgium before I can do Brussels Centraal

But I'm not in a rush

[brazen mantle]

on a friday

[brittle remnant]

yes

I have every other friday off

[brittle remnant]

Binche

13 trains

[cinder lichen]

Good

[brittle remnant]

Love this

I'm either in Heimbach for 10 minutes, or I'm in Monschau 3 hours later

[brazen mantle]

vreemde zaken

wat doet de SB88

ah

[brittle remnant]

I wanted to do this on Euregioticket but Eupen is flink om

So I'll leave it for March

[hushed umbra]

shouldve gotten in the car with me, rico, sophie and 2talltyler

[brazen mantle]

i forgot why i couldnt make this

[hushed umbra]

wasnt this on a sunday?

[brazen mantle]

i dont know

look it up

[hushed umbra]

17th of june 2023 saturday

[brazen mantle]

i had post i guess

and didnt wanna vraag vrij

i was also chris that evening

[hushed umbra]

you got in the car with sophie that day

to go to chris

[brazen mantle]

probably yes

because she was going there anyway

i remember this i think?

this was also day after scouting kijk thing

[brittle remnant]

This sounds like a horrible day

This was around the peak of me being extremely busy with me thesis

[brazen mantle]

nice

[brittle remnant]

But also I don't wanna sit in a packed car with 4 others for like 6 hours

[brazen mantle]

I would do this if it’s Jasper Sophie Rico and Tyler

[brittle remnant]

It's a good club ye

[oblique adder]

this was fun

[brazen mantle]

this is also from that day

[oblique adder]

you do pee loudly

[brazen mantle]

i think this is also chris bathroom akoestiek

[oblique adder]

it's loud at your house too

[brazen mantle]

is it loud at your house

[brittle remnant]

I have no memory of this day

[brazen mantle]

i do

[brittle remnant]

I did some searching. Memories came back. I now wish I didn

[brazen mantle]

explain

[brittle remnant]

Communication errors, social fuckups

[brazen mantle]

anything in particular

[brittle remnant]

Like every mistake I've ever remembered in my entire life, or anything that's kept me awake; nothing you remember, or care about

[brazen mantle]

so your judgement is youre not gonna tell me?

[oblique adder]

No idea

[oblique adder]

Related to us or nah

[brazen mantle]

i have peed there a bunch

i feel like you wouldve noticed

[brittle remnant]

Of course

But nothing you did, or remember

And ultimately without any consequence

[oblique adder]

is my existence bothering you

[brazen mantle]

but then cant we help you get over this or no

[brittle remnant]

I'm already seeking professional help for this thanks for your concern

[brittle remnant]

Don't worry about it

[brittle remnant]

I kinda wanna travel some more again

but idk what do

[minor cave]

Cottbus

[brittle remnant]

I don't have interrail, don't have time to travel when there's Youth Holidays, and don't have enough time to really make Deutschlandticket worth it

[minor cave]

Ryanair

[brazen mantle]

this is kinda gedoe also if you only have a weekend at a time

you could just travel to zwolle

[brittle remnant]

I can yes

But then I'm in Zwolle

[brazen mantle]

lots of the netherlands is pretty fun

[oblique adder]

hdf hdf hdf

[brazen mantle]

you could also just keep going

[still yarrow]

hdf hdf hdf

[minor cave]

Zwolle would be good though

I assume Zwolle has a relatively nice center

[brazen mantle]

its decent I think

[hushed umbra]

bussen hdf

[cinder lichen]

hdf hdf hdf

[brazen mantle]

you could do ns wandeling if you like ns wandeling

[cinder lichen]

or like what @fair bear did last 2 weekends

[minor cave]

I should try this once

[rich hatch]

hdf hdf hdf

[brittle remnant]

What did they do then?

[cinder lichen]

go to south belgium, hostel, take some OV and a good walk and some beer and food

he went chimay in chimay last weekend.

[brittle remnant]

No Youth Holiday rn tho

[oblique adder]

get singles

you have a job

it's €15

[cinder lichen]

or get like the 10 ritten thing

weekend thicets are also -50% at nmbs

[brittle remnant]

Hmm

10 ritten €57

[cinder lichen]

and a los youth ticket is 7,10

[brazen mantle]

yeah any single

[cinder lichen]

not getting some form of korting is allmost impossible at nmbs.

[brazen mantle]

idk how geldig this is in terms of grensoverschrijdend but

[brittle remnant]

I do think I can get value out of Youth Multi

This is cheaper even than youth holidays for most trips

And I have until November to use them up & have it be worth

[stable cloak]

I should do this too then

[brittle remnant]

Wait no

[cinder lichen]

but this is year round though

[brittle remnant]

From November I can get a 2-day ticket for less than €5 through my employer

[cinder lichen]

so untill then a multi lol.

[brittle remnant]

ye

[cinder lichen]

just go 2-3x belgium and make 2-3 ritten each time

[verbal mantle]

ive used these a lot, mostly for NL tho

[hushed umbra]

I'd like to mention that NMBS wants to get a simpeler ticketing system and that the youth ticket will be abolished with it

[cinder lichen]

(Or trajecten) onderbreken is allowed, jsut back traking not.

[brittle remnant]

?

[verbal mantle]

With the BE coupon, you also get NL coupon

And I didnt have StuOv for some time

So I used it to get to the german border

[brittle remnant]

I don't know if this is the same thing

But I have NS business card

[cinder lichen]

if you buy it, it woulds till be valid to atelaest the date mentioned on it anyway.

[hushed umbra]

yes but for the younger ones around us, it will maybe dissapear by the end of the year

[stable cloak]

:(

[cinder lichen]

uhhh wtf nmbs why is your oldwebsite stil secretly online.

[stable cloak]

lol wtf

[cinder lichen]

https://belgianrail.be/nl/Mobility/Web/biljetten-abonnementen/leeftijd/children-youth/af-en-toe/go-pass-10.aspx

[brittle remnant]

you don't seem to be allowed to go omweg

Mandatory kortste weg in km does give fun routes that would count as tyfusver om tho

Because lokale spoorlijnen are a bit shorter sometimes

[stable cloak]

i don't think they would care too much

they also didn't care when i went to gent with a liège-tournai ticket

[brittle remnant]

You got a single?

[stable cloak]

yes

[brittle remnant]

I guess QR code scalled fine

[stable cloak]

youth multi probably just gives same qr code as single would do

[brittle remnant]

I expect it to

I really wonder how they deal with international trains

[stable cloak]

it doesn't mention them

so i guess they're in?

[brittle remnant]

oh

[brittle remnant]

That's a reference to the lexicon where they define what a station is

Hmmmm

I mean

Technically speaking

[oblique adder]

it says NL

[brittle remnant]

It does

[cinder lichen]

i think you can get away with eijsden and roosendaal zwartrijden

[brittle remnant]

Ye but I was eyeing this

[cinder lichen]

breda-noorderkempen meh... if nl conducteur... idk

lille tickets single are cheap

[oblique adder]

yeah I do it all the time

Lille ticket is like €4

less even I think

[cinder lichen]

there is lot of controel to lille. but usually only border guards for pasport and not ticket

[brittle remnant]

I should be fine

I'm white

[cinder lichen]

they did a 100% chekc yesterday

and took forever to figure out my passport was dutch... ecause french don't correlate koninkrijk der nederlanden with pay-bas untill she called a collegue

[brittle remnant]

retarde

They could've chosen to open it

it's at the top

[cinder lichen]

they kinda blderder 100x er doorheen

[brittle remnant]

Good to know that you don't need to finish elementary school to become border guard

[cinder lichen]

its cool because the guards only ente rin tourcoin... all smugler sjsut exit there

[stable cloak]

@oblique adder you should go to romania and drive over the 7c

[oblique adder]

Yes

but this is not chris lore smh

[stable cloak]

oh

[oblique adder]

this lore channel has very little lore

[stable cloak]

everyone was talking here so i thought it was off topic

[brittle remnant]

This is very much not Chris lore

[cinder lichen]

ow wait not offtoopic fuck

[oblique adder]

neither is most of what you post

[brittle remnant]

Most of what I post here is regarding trips future or past

thankyouverymuch

[brittle remnant]

Lore time

Waiting for the first bus of the day because bad

[cinder lichen]

lore!

[brittle remnant]

Red, white and (former) DB logo

It's+4

301 Home-Ht 8:28+5-8:46

[rich hatch]

lore!!!!!!

[brittle remnant]

Bus is relatively busy

Not surprising given how this is the first bus of the day, and it's quite late

[rich hatch]

bad

buses should be empty on sunday

[brittle remnant]

Train ri Mt +10