Chris lore

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I never have this

9236 Breda - Antwerpen 13:42+9 - 14:16+12

4235 Antwerpen - Turnhout 14:54 - 15:48

[stray flax]

sauce

no trenitalia emote

I feel scammed

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4216 Turnhout - Herenthals 16:15-16:30

[cinder lichen]

that station has Binche vibe, wihtout it being rundown

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Conductor enthusiastically whistling

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Spanish solution

4316 Herenthals - Mol 16:43 - 17:03

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8216 Mol-Hamont 17:09-17:39

Brakes aren't working in the rearmost car so we're experiencing some delays

This is the same physical train that's supposed to do the P-trein on the way back I'm pretty sure so I'm curious what will happen to that

[royal python]

Hle 21 🥰🥰🥰

Hope it works out

[brittle remnant]

+6

They have 11 min to reverse so it should be fine

"probleem zou opgelost moeten zijn"

Rem zat een beetje vast

Beter een rem die aan staat terwijl dat niet hoort dan andersom

[cinder lichen]

of hij zit vast in geopende toestadn :/

[brittle remnant]

Zou ook kunnen ja

[cinder lichen]

😳

[brazen mantle]

Herentals*

also I think middle platform is normal for Kempen trains

but you probably don’t do those a lot

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Oh ok dan

This is my first time going this direction

As you suspected

[brazen mantle]

yeah

I had my train from Lille arrive there when I came back from Paris

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If only

This is also the P-trein naar Sintjorisweert via Leuven

[brazen mantle]

is that the train you’re taking?

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Boogjes

I'll do Genk een andere keer

[brazen mantle]

did you not go to Genk with us?

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P8219 17:50-20:00 Hamont - Leuven

No

[brazen mantle]

good one station before taalgrens terminating train

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Yes

Also good 2 hour train

Old screenshot because Trainlog won't load

I've done Leuven-Brussel since, but because I have a direct Leuven - Diegem I'll get a new boogje from this as well

[brazen mantle]

what’s this then

just the stoptrein right

on the same line

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I'm planning on doing a normal stoptrein yes

Wait

[stable cloak]

This is the same line but this takes a different leuven boogje probably

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This is not a new boogje at Zaventem

I thought Diegem was on the north part of the Zaventem loop

There's nothing on the north part of the Zaventem loop

[brazen mantle]

there is indeed nothing here

you could take some other route I guess

from Brussel noord there’s an IC that goes all the way around the loop iirc

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Oh there's a station called Zaventem that's not the airport

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Ye but I need the S2

Oh wait no

IC6

[brazen mantle]

waar heb je het over

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Treinen regio Zaventem

Reisadvies is steken at the airport if I wanna do the boogje

[brazen mantle]

:20 past the hour at Brussel noord you can go around on a single train

oh yes this turns into the IC06

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This arrives at 20:51, direct stoptrein is :38

[brazen mantle]

this comes from the IC06A foute boel

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I don't wanna be at the hotel much past 21:00 because I need to be in time for check-in with orga

[brazen mantle]

IC to Zaventem doesn’t seem like that bad of an idea

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Ye it's only 10 min

And it comes with a 20 min transfer at Zaventem

[brazen mantle]

I guess that’s a bit less

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But boogje

So is fine

[brazen mantle]

I assume you also don’t have the Zaventem to Brussel via the north way curve right

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I did this with you lot right?

[brazen mantle]

wait when

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We raamhangen viaducten

[brazen mantle]

i only have the ic brussel route through zaventem

maybe i was not at this particular event

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Could be

Iirc Koppie Sinas and Soph were here

14 Juli

We went boogje near Jurbise

[brazen mantle]

oh yes i couldnt make this iirc

zoo train

[rich hatch]

no i was here

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Correct

Oh you was there

Throwback to frantically grabbing my rabobank randomreader and pinpas to buy the border ticket while we were fast approaching it

[rich hatch]

rare me belgium day

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Because I decided to maak a decent part of my salaris over to my spaarrekening earlier that day

Omroep

Something about a slagboom and a ziekenwagen and "ons vertrek wordt met [unintelligible] uitgesteld"

This sounded like half an hour

This doesn't sound good

Now we're just chilling at Mol

"er is nog steeds geen verkeer mogelijk op onze lijn door een ongeval bij een overweg in Geel"

[royal python]

🤝

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We're going again

+15

I will miss my transfer like this

However

They planned a 10 min stop at Lier so we can catch up quite easily

We're gonna make it mee

[brazen mantle]

good luck

I guess after Lier nothing you can really do

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Yup

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"We staan hier in Kessel met een deurprobleem"

"Met een open deur kunnen we natuurlijk niet vertrekken

So brake failure, door failure, external issues

Everything going well with this train

[royal python]

:((

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So long as this train continues to Leuven I'm all good

The stop Mechelen Nekkerspoel spawned in, which I kinda expected this train to call at anyway

DB doesn't know we're stopping at Nekkerspoel tho

[brazen mantle]

you shouldn’t

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I shouldn't what?

The reason I expected this train to call at Nekkerspoel is because when I was figuring out the P-boogjes I was looking for the most sure-fire way to tell if it was gonna do the boogje

And non-stop Nekkerspoel - Leuven is what I wrote down for this one

I guess we're waiting 10 min here anyway

[brazen mantle]

stop at nekkerspoel

but cool

[oblique adder]

which boog are you doing

Haren - Diegem?

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Mechelen ontwijkend

I was thinking of doing boogje Nossegem - Brussels Airport Zaventem

Why did we turn around

[brazen mantle]

at lier?

this is just also a route that’s possible to get to Leuven

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I guess we're not doing Mechelen Nekkerspoel after all

It does say "Volgende halte is Mechelen Nekkerspoel"

[brazen mantle]

this is the route that Apple Maps thinks it does also

but usually Apple Maps is wrong

[oblique adder]

With a 10 min stop lier reversal makes sense

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It does ye

[brazen mantle]

very nice

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This is such a shame

[oblique adder]

this train normally has a Mechelen nekkerspoel stop

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But not today it seems

[oblique adder]

Yeah it's different most weekends

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Such a shame

Now this train has 0m new track

Ah well I can try again when I do Genk, and just make sure it actually calls at Nekkerspoel

[minor cave]

Mmm Chris ritten

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"het is niet mogelijk in achterste 3 rijtuigen uit te stappen in heverlee" that's half the train

3643 Leuven - Bru Airport Zaventem 20:08-20:22

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Next train at :42

I'm probably going to finish my book by the time the train is here

No the train staat hier 10 min stil

1942 Bru Airport Zaventem - Diegem 20:42-20:51

[brazen mantle]

yes this is how the 6a/6 works

doorgekoppeld

[stable cloak]

nice

[royal python]

🥰🥰🥰

[stable cloak]

how much

or company

[minor cave]

Oh you have a hotel nice

[brazen mantle]

dik

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Company

I have been gifted a dopper

Railcenter USB adapter

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I will unfortunately brussel centraal tomorrow

This was expected

Need to be at a railway consultancy next to midi in the afternoon

[cinder lichen]

hmm ... get of somwhere else and tram into bru

keed the no brussesl centraal streak alive

[hushed umbra]

weert

[royal python]

Respect for having kept it going for so long

[oblique adder]

Metro

[brazen mantle]

yeah this is pretty cheap

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Cba

[oblique adder]

That's on you

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Tja

I'm also not gonna go leave the group for some turbo autism

Twice

[cinder lichen]

just make it a joke. tell you got a bet going or smth

[brittle remnant]

No

I didn't care to maintain this steak last time

It just kinda happened

And all this pressure makes me want to do it even less so you guys stop being annoying about it

[brittle remnant]

Centraal has fallen

[brazen mantle]

🫡

[formal quarry]

🫡

[stray flax]

🫡

how long did it last?

[royal python]

🫡

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I got like 60-70% of Belgium before I got Centraal

[brazen mantle]

make sure to check when you voer this in

it’s kinda cool that this nearly happened twice before but both of those times NMBS fucked something so that actually that route didn’t work anymore

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I can't because Trainlog is bad and logs Oostende because of kusttram

[cinder lichen]

😭

[formal quarry]

Give them feedback

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I did

[formal quarry]

Good

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No because they just ignored it

[formal quarry]

Bad

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Hotel #2

Moeilijk

Which one is shampoo

[brazen mantle]

ok so

maybe the liquid soap

but i wouldnt put it past them to have put the wrong thing in

and thats just the handzeep

instead of shampoo

[minor cave]

Fancy hotels nice

[brittle remnant]

It is just handzeep yes

I found the same bottle next to the sink

[brazen mantle]

cool

[cinder lichen]

this is just regular non cheap hotels

[minor cave]

Better than I've ever booked myself on vacation lol

[brazen mantle]

we had this at the normal ibis in luxemburg yes

at least the soap

[minor cave]

I think that was less fancy

[cinder lichen]

this is just 80-120€ range

[minor cave]

Doesn't look super fancy though still

I should book nicer hotels

[brazen mantle]

still cool that we got asked if we were at the right place

[cinder lichen]

we are jsut used to shitty cheap 50€ frnech squeeky floors hotels

[rich hatch]

Scandic Orebro was very good

and cheap

[brazen mantle]

orebro

[minor cave]

Top 5 medium sized swedish cities?

[rich hatch]

This was like €60

Maybe because no normal person goes here

[cinder lichen]

rico when will you noord jutland

ow lets move offtopic

[minor cave]

I think Växjö is pretty cool

[minor cave]

Not soon, very low prio

[brazen mantle]

Årjäng was kinda cool but this is not even medium anymore i think

[brittle remnant]

I have no idea what they paid for this

The entire programme cost work €3000-5000 iirc

This is including train tickets, but because I have FIP for Belgium and Germany, and treinvrij for NL I don't need their tickets

But we have the tickets anyway

[cinder lichen]

don't all your collega's have fip?

[brazen mantle]

very nice that they payed double

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Most of the people here aren't my colleagues

Those who are I think a lot of them chose to tell NS they wanted to take a specific train rather than FIP tickets

I just reckoned FIP would be less of a hassle

And I was able to get some lijntjes because of it

[oblique adder]

Neither

[oblique adder]

yes

[oblique adder]

1. östersund
2. Gävle
3. Sundsvall
4. kalmar
5. visby

[minor cave]

good list

[cinder lichen]

ystad?

[brazen mantle]

visby almost feels like cheating to me

[oblique adder]

why

[brazen mantle]

this is like seperate from sweden in my mind

[oblique adder]

that's on you

[rich hatch]

this is just sweden

[brittle remnant]

I get why you guys like André van Es

@minor cave do you know Rob Goverde?

[rich hatch]

yes he's really cool

I'll have him one more time in like 2 weeks

[hushed umbra]

Andre is funny

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ICE 125 Utrecht - Frankfurt 13:06-16:26

[minor cave]

I saw your train

Departing

[brittle remnant]

Cool

[brazen mantle]

wat spook jij uit

[brittle remnant]

Summer school still

Also waiting for polizei

Polizei is here

We're leaving with polizei

Took 20 min

Conductor asked police for fahrscheine

[formal quarry]

Good

[brazen mantle]

good

I hope they had one

[brittle remnant]

Arriving +25

20 of which for the border

I'm pleasantly surprised

[formal quarry]

We should introduce border controls in every country

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Erfurt

[stable cloak]

the bernd

very good

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ICE 2916 8:32-10:22 Erfurt Hbf - Berlin Hbf

Inno🏳️‍⚧️

[royal python]

Enjoy

[brittle remnant]

I will try to get as many cocktails as possible

[brazen mantle]

lol

[royal python]

Good

Imagine if they have like db branded miniparapluutjes inside them

[brittle remnant]

That would be epic

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I'm in

Cocktail any%

Max Bögl was just a guy talking

[formal quarry]

That’s kinda what most talks are like

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Except this wasn't a talk

This was Innotrans

Most other companies showed some of their products

I lied down on a sleeper train berth

Damn Lasse liked my S-bahn to innotrans

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I give the conductor on the ICE my FIP ticket

"Ughhh. Müssen Sie immer etwas neues bringen?"

Guy next to me "Ah gibt es die noch, das ist ganz Old-school"

[royal python]

Lol

[brittle remnant]

There were none at innotrans

I hear railtech has them

[royal python]

:((

[brittle remnant]

i found some beers tho

They were not very good

[royal python]

But free and alcohol containing¿

[brittle remnant]

Yes and I think so

[royal python]

Very good

[brittle remnant]

Seat reservations are a bad concept

You're pretty much always telling people to get the fuck out of their seats because they got in the one you reserved

This then really slows down boarding

[brazen mantle]

you wanna either go mandatory or none

[minor cave]

I disagree

I think you should automatically get one for free when buying a ticket

And have a few unreserved cars

You don't want entire routes being booked out weeks in advance

[brazen mantle]

just have capacity

[brittle remnant]

Just have capacity

[minor cave]

Operators aren't gonna do this

Look at France

[oblique adder]

or sweden

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Damn my colleague got very severely DB'ed

Her ICE was cancelled and now she has to RE from Frankfurt

[royal python]

L

[brittle remnant]

She's home (omgeving Utrecht) at 1:45

I'm pulling into Ut 21:00ish

[oblique adder]

ok ice pull up

[brittle remnant]

Only a bit over an hour late

[brittle remnant]

Guess how long my transfer is

Curious

[royal python]

Venlo mentioned 🥰

[brittle remnant]

I loved this summer school

It was absolutely lovely to be among this crowd

[royal python]

Yippee

[brittle remnant]

Orga is planning a reunion every year

I'm gonna be lobbying my boss to pay for me to go here

[royal python]

Good

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Sumer school totalled 2773km

[brittle remnant]

To get to 40 000km in 2024 I have to plan yet another trip worth 1235km or more

This is e.g. retourtje Berlin

EZ

[minor cave]

Hmmm Chrisrit

[brazen mantle]

dan moeten we dit inplannen

[formal quarry]

Ga je mee naar Berlijn dan

[formal quarry]

Is this all by train

I don’t even have 20k

[brittle remnant]

This is specifically trainkm yes

[formal quarry]

Logarithmic scale moment

Damn

[brittle remnant]

I have about that much every year just from my commute

[formal quarry]

to be fair I don’t log work trips

[brittle remnant]

Skill issue

[formal quarry]

Vaardigheidsprobleem

[royal python]

Jaaaaa

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3727 Ht-Vl 9:24-10:28

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Slight delay

This might make the Venlo shuffle harder

[royal python]

Chris venlo 🥰

[brittle remnant]

Not me fucking up planning a trip

Had I realised this I would've moved my trip up by half an hour so I'd have an earlier train to Wuppertal

Anyway RE13 is +10

Because of course it is

[royal python]

Very familiar photo location :)

[brittle remnant]

Sorry

+15

[minor cave]

I think it's good to plan half an hour transfer in Venlo

[royal python]

RE13 delay does this for you automatically

[minor cave]

I always plan this, especially if you come from the 1100

[royal python]

Nice

[brittle remnant]

I prefer not planning the half hour wait

Because usually NS is sufficiently in time

[royal python]

Veel plezier

RE dreizehn nach breyell, boisheim und dülken

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RE13 Venlo - Wuppertal Vohwinkel 11:05+13 - 12:25+8

It's a well used train

[cinder lichen]

Chris train front fotos are alsways funny

[oblique adder]

lol

[cinder lichen]

they are made in a qucok walkpast it seems

[brittle remnant]

I only very rarely miss the RE13

[brittle remnant]

This was on a busy platform as the train was approaching

[minor cave]

usually its the 1100-3500 transfer that goes wrong

sophie takes this too

[brittle remnant]

I try to avoid the 1100 whenever possible

[brittle remnant]

Estimated Eta I Wuppertal is +20

[cinder lichen]

least delayed German train then

[brittle remnant]

This is true

[brittle remnant]

+27

But I'm here now

[minor cave]

im so happy im not in germany right now

[cinder lichen]

italiaanse toestanden

[brittle remnant]

So much for L3

People had immediate claimed the big window before I could

All seats are full now

Well used public transport good

This is very good

We should build more of this

[cinder lichen]

are there more langerekte steden in smalle valleien met alleen ruimte boven een riviertje???

[brittle remnant]

ETCS

Procedural TSB

weird

[cinder lichen]

lol

[brittle remnant]

Or with signs

L3 and then not having this be in the radio

[cinder lichen]

wonder does that kaiserswagen also have etcs then?

[brittle remnant]

They all do or they can't run

[cinder lichen]

hmm apparently it has. cool this could be the oldest 'train' fitted with etcs.

[brittle remnant]

Does CH not have older steam locs in use for trips on the mainlines?

Or Belgium

[cinder lichen]

belgium for sure not

[brittle remnant]

Time to Hauptbahnhof

Behold, a balisegroup

[rich hatch]

Balises 🥰

[brittle remnant]

@minor cave this is third rail

[minor cave]

Very nice

[brittle remnant]

Only lame fridge magnets here

Time to train home

ICE was blocking the platform

This is very crowded

RE13 Wuppertal Hbf - Venlo 14:25+7 - 15:56

[brittle remnant]

As it turns out

I never got my italy reservations

This is stupid

Done

[cinder lichen]

i dont think they care much

I've used bunch of pdf tickets unprinted which had this message

also in it.

[fair bear]

ÖBB can be evil

Can't just buy an e-ticket without this

Difference between austria and germany is A4 paper vs A4 DIN paper

I have seen somone got kicked out of the train for showing a ticket on a laptop while he was supposed to have printed it.

That makes me aggressive

[brittle remnant]

For German and Czech trains I didn't get this

There just the app is fine

[cinder lichen]

hmm maybe within austria they are evil

[formal quarry]

[formal quarry]

this is weird though because ÖBB tickets app has built-in etickets..

they probably say this out of precaution for tickets outside of Austria?

[brittle remnant]

Hmm I might have space for Blep in my bag

[brittle remnant]

Ht time

[cinder lichen]

catania nice

enjoy

[brittle remnant]

Thanks

I will

[brittle remnant]

I was randomly assigned the window seat :)

2931 Ht-Ehv 10:08-10:26

401 Ehv - EIN 10:32-10:52

[brittle remnant]

Boarding pass 🅱️roke

I hate airports

Now we wait

Jammer van de steiger

I could easily have stayed in bed an hour longer

[brittle remnant]

I think that's my plane

[royal python]

Fijne vlucht

[brittle remnant]

It is not my plane

Thanks

[brittle remnant]

Plane is not here yet I think

Almost everyone has gone through the gate but now we're being held up

Operated by Malta Air

Says so on the door

Can't remember if I've ever sat this far forwards on a plane

Ryanair FR 4062 13:00+? - 15:45

[fair bear]

me next week

[brittle remnant]

Me right now

If this plane decides to leave

Right

It seems we still needed to refuel

We're taxxiing

[formal quarry]

Ryanair 4062 on 16/11/2024

Eindhoven to Catania
↗ 13:40 CET EIN (40 min)
↘ 16:17 CET CTA (32 min)

Flight length 2 hrs, 37 min

Arriving at Terminal -- • Gate -- at 16:17 CET

Updates: https://live.flighty.app/7b10d62b-99eb-486f-8152-adb89768a6f5

Least delayed Ryanair flight

[brittle remnant]

We have a slurf

Maybe not

I forgot how skeer ryanair is

[cinder lichen]

direczione siracusa 😍

[brittle remnant]

"train is approaching" fake news media

R 5387 Catania Aeroporto - Siracusa 16:58-18:08

I had more legroom on the plane

[royal python]

Rock 🥰🥰🥰

I love these

[brittle remnant]

High trust society

Paying for the hotel is not first thing

[minor cave]

Horrible opinion

[brittle remnant]

Still haven't been asked to pay for pizza

[royal python]

Sorry

I have been on them this year but im basing it only on the nose exterior looks

The nose looks ultra supercool

[brittle remnant]

I don't like this livery much

There's better liveries on this train

[royal python]

Like the fugtrup one

[brittle remnant]

What

No I meant the one with the black and the orange

[royal python]

(That was a joke/reference to link renders)

[royal python]

That one is nice too

[brittle remnant]

That is one thing you can associate the legend of zelda with

[royal python]

For the record I do not associate it with that it was a vergezocht fattoe

[brittle remnant]

Quite

[brittle remnant]

The tap water kinda tastes like milk

[brittle remnant]

Feels like being back home in terrassa

Tho ofc I don't need more than this

[brittle remnant]

You can see the fish

[brittle remnant]

More fatbikes than Vespas

NL cultural victory?

[brittle remnant]

My capacity for walking around and seeing shit as a tourists appears to be around 4 hours

A healthy 12km

[oblique adder]

Siracusa still?

nice

[brittle remnant]

Ye

It was already late and dark when I arrived yesterday so I took the day to go see the city

[brittle remnant]

Went to the Mormon like church before dark

Architecturally it's pretty cool

Just unfortunate that it didn't have that many paintings or murals on the walls like so many other catholic churches do

Lore behind this is they alledge a tiny statue of the virgin mary was "weeping"

So they were like whelp this thing deserves a big ass church

[delicate wolf]

It's a blues

Almost same front of rock but it's totally different in almost every aspect

[royal python]

I know but I call them all rock

Just like I also call the italian pop trains (and any alstom coradia stream derivative) icng

[royal python]

Extremely cool

[brittle remnant]

R 5382 Siracusa - Catania Centrale 8:49-10:10

[brittle remnant]

Delay at the first station because of "slow trains"

[brittle remnant]

Scary announcement that I missed the start of

I think he said traffic has shut down between two stations

Ofc the ones we're between rn

Tegentrein

Looks promising

We're stopped because of an "electric material f"

Moving again

+30 at the next station

[cinder lichen]

average italy moment

[brittle remnant]

Turned into +45

[royal python]

Icng yippee

[brittle remnant]

0 IQ people pushing to get in without waiting for people to get off first

[rich hatch]

Italianen

[brittle remnant]

Yes

I didn't know catania had a subway

[brazen mantle]

you should take it

[rich hatch]

100% it

[brazen mantle]

are you planning circumetnea also?

[brittle remnant]

It doesn't circum right now

Enjoying Catania first. Bit of a loud shithole but I can go in the roman amphitheatre

€3 because I said I was a student at Eindhoven

[royal python]

Chris fraude

(Good)

[cinder lichen]

catania metro is very 100% able

being loud is just average italian city.

[brittle remnant]

It's also more covered in trash than other Italian cities I've seen

[fair bear]

the metro?

or the city as such

[brittle remnant]

City

[cinder lichen]

pretty standard southern italian city

anything south of rome is like that

[fair bear]

I've never been to anywhere south of Rome

but I wouldn't be surprised

[brittle remnant]

Siracusa wasn't

[cinder lichen]

siracusa is a village compared to catania

palermo is an even bigger mess. good vibes.

catania is pretty average, like palermo, messina, reggio, taranto, bari, napoli etc. etc.

[oblique adder]

the nicest bit still runs

[cinder lichen]

it will never circum again either anyway

[brittle remnant]

Are they gonna extend the metro to where the circum now ends?

[cinder lichen]

sort of yesm

[brittle remnant]

Don't think I have time to go to the other terminus now

Maybe tonight's

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Are they planning on extending the circum beyond where it stops now?

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no

not afaik

meteo will grow cicum shrink

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Right

Right

Thanks

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upto paterno its sure it will become metro. but there are even plans to extend the metro further.

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Chris treinfotos 🥰

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Metro Catania Stesicoro - Giovanni XXIII 13:26-13:28

Oh the terminus on the etna side is closed for maintenance it seems

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what is currently the terminus even

monte po?

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It should be

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Nu beter? :)

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ja maar dit is niet authentiek

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the circumetnea stations and tunnel have been prepared for standard gauge and electrified trains to run in them up to Adrano Nord

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Het is ook nooit goed he

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klopt

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Next train

Doors closed tho

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De steen

Good pic

Keigoed zelfs haaaaa snap je want de trein is the rock (niet eens maar een andere wel dus nu noem ik deze ook zo)

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He's called Dwayne

R 21903 14:08-15:59 Catania Centrale - Caltagirone

I like how the station is on the coast

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Unscheduled stop due to a level crossing failure

They changed it to "breakdown on the line"

I'm starting to feel like I owe DB an apology

We're moving again

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Over +30 already

I do hope this is the vehicle on the way back as well

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de blauwe joh

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Transfer to the next train is 22 minutes but it's the last train of the day back from a terminus

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will you TVV to gela?

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I will not TVV

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sad

caltagriona line used to be Aln's 😢

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K

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Hmm slight panic about this

Can't find the conductor either

Found the conductor

Yes it's the same train

But she had some trouble understanding autism

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R 21904 Caltagirone - Catania Centrale 16:21+9 - 18:14+?

Alarm on the train going off?

[stable cloak]

I had this too on libramont-arlon via the long way

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She was like oh but if you're going back then you should get off here because (ticket reasons), and I was like no I have a return ticket and she was like ??? Ok then

Good country btw

Last train of a workday scheduled 16:21

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I believe two people on this train just missed their stop by procrastinating

They summoned a conductor so ye probably

Crying sounds

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Adult unfortunately

But you know

Tomato tomato

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adult baby

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\me

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Do you make unpleasant noises when you miss your stop through your own doing?

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likely

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As unpleasant as a crying baby?

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Hmm I can take an earlier train back to Siracusa

This is like 2 hours earlier

Oh it's been +45ed

Nvm then

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This toilet has a sofa?

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🤨

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Yeah idk

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Cozy

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Anyway done with food

Most people appear to have given up on the train which has only become more retarded

So I can still catch it

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chris trein

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That's the one

Get ready

RV 5397 Catania Centrale - Siracusa 18:37+58 - 20:00+?

Hmm the circumetna doesn't connect well at all with the train from Siracusa

I shouldn't have planned to stay here for 4 nights

What do tomorrow

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toarmina

or circumetna

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does dis include walking from giarre to riposto?

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That's not very far

I did take it into account ye

Conductor just asked us where we were going

Said something with the word "autobus"

I don't like that word

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what about doing circum clockwise?

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We're not going much of anywhere

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Oh nvm I'm not going

https://www.circumetnea.it/randazzo-riposto-servizio-ferroviario-sospeso-fino-al-24-novembre-2024/

I do hope this train I'm in right now isn't about to fucking TVV itself

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Tl;dr because of the flooding last week half of the line is out of service so it's bus both ways

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"were waiting for another train to pass and we expect to be able to continue in a few minutes" alright then

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+88

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In the end we arrived +71

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Catania (the nice parts)

Railway to Caltagirone was really quite good

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chaos

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I have a bad idea for tomorrow

Taormina and (if I'm not dead) Castelmola

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Taormina is nice

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I am a fat and unfit tho

But we'll see

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same

there's a shuttle bus that connects to most trains too I believe

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Mormon church and Lutheran church annoyingly boring in terms of this stuff

Some mosques are like this as well

It is shame because religious things are good

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only one way to get fit really

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It's a catholic church

It just reminded me of Mormon churches

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R 5382 Siracusa - Taormina-Giardini 8:49-11:02

Got a ticket check several minutes before departure

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This one is particularly unpleasant

This didn't look this steep on google earth

Time to start the climb

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yes this is on like a hill

there’s a funicular

if you want

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The cable car is on the wrong side of the hill

Anyway I walked up to Taormina

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nice job

yes this view of the railway is very nice

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Ye it's good

I'll see if I can be arsed to go to Castelmola but I'm not against it per se

At a cafe trying to get lunch

I think I accidentally ordered a coffee

But I'm not sure

I didn't

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Time for my 3rd greek theatre

Looks like this one is still in use for events

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Time for step 2; ascend another 150 m

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Entrance to castle €10 which includes some BS

He saw my eyes glaze over I think and he was like oh but if you're under 25 it's €5 but no BS

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This castle would not have been worth €10

Time for the last 150m

To Castelmola

Lmao

This is a lot steeper than the other two

And it's asphalt instead of stairs or dirt

Oh there's 3 layers of protection against falling rocks

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Spent 4 hours being a tourist again

I can tell because my feet hurt

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It really was

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It said you needed to buy tickets online. Couldn't figure out how to get it to work. Kinda glad I didn't.

Good adventure

450m hike from the train station

R 12981 15:39+5 - 16:32 Taormina-Giardini - Catania Centrale

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R 5379 16:50-18:08 Catania Centrale - Siracusa

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I like how the same train with the same ritnr runs on slightly different times on Monday vs Tuesday

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Train station is very cool

Taormina was a very good pick

Might've been better than plan A would've been

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if plan A was circum it likely was

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i didn't really have time to enjoy Castelmola fully so it felt a bit mid but I had a train to catch

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Plan A was circum yes

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circum is only good for fapping and if you are lucky old windowhang stock. the towns are very mediocre

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The towns did seem quite mediocre when I checked while planning

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only bronte is kinda nice, but even that will be dead in november

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12~13km total today it seems

Good amount

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Fuck

I said a thing and the waiter said something else and fucked off

I'm worried

Asked for Cannoli

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enjoy the canelloni

idk man

just see what appears it will probably be good

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He said gnocchi

They just came back with the desert options anyway

It's not in the options

Ah well

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ah

i dont think this is super desserty maybe idk

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Maybe idk

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more of an afternoon snack

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I guess so

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deserts they get sweet stuff usually liek tiramisu or other little cakes

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IC 722 Siracusa - Villa San Giovanni 7:43+4 - 11:30

So my seat reservation, the DB app and the platform displays say this train goes to Villa San Giovanni

The interrail app and träwelling say I need to transfer at Messina

I think this just means my train will get coupled

Anyway bye Sicily

I'll see you October next year probably

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it will couple with the palermo sextion yes

and some funky stuff with trainnumber happens so it doesnt show properly in all apps

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Rolling onto the boat now I'm pretty sure

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arancini time 🤩

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I didn't notice we started moving

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I like that the boats have huge trenitalia logo's on them

[royal python]

Good

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Announcement that my train has been spoorgewijzigd but the signs never said anything else and it's not like platform 1 is available

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FR 9658 12:43-19:53 Villa San Giovanni - Bologna Centrale

7 hours on a train

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geniet ervan

ga je ragu eten in bologna

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baloney

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Ik heb een uurtje

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krap

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I also have bread and jam

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This window appears to be leaking

And now my elbow is wet

Family with 2 small children just decided to sit next to me

I already miss the silence

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hihi

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The mom had good strategies to keep them mostly sedated

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what are they

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Colouring book

Rome rn

We're +45

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This keeps getting worse

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+60

I do hope they stop delaying this shit now

Or I'm gonna have a problem

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chroverstap

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Last regional train of the day

I got 15 min buffer left

Guess who just got geroodseind

We appear to be stuck in Florence

A place this train does not call at

[rich hatch]

Italy

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Let's see if we can trick the person at the ticket counter into allowing me onto a frecciarossa for free

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you maybe could

this is probably easier for them

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get on first and ask later

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I have an hour

I think

I'm not sure tho announcement just said we'll be geroodseind for at least 20 more minutes

And yet we're moving

Idfk

Scheduled arrival is past the departure of my regional train anyway so that's not happening anymore

Good country

And I thought Germany was bad

They're trying to bribe me

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We're currently going km/h

Trains given up

It's a small miracle we're going at all

They've kinda given up on an ETA too

[royal python]

F

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Wahoo

Conductor just says get on the next frecciarossa

It's +45 so I'll be able to catch it

I can just get on for free I just have to show my reservation for this train and the interrail for the regional train

[royal python]

hell yeah

enjoy

do you know which type it will be

imagine if its a fyra aaaaa

or etr-1000 my ultra ultra ultra beloved

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Nope

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oh these

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This is what I was on for 8.5 hours

[royal python]

de etr 500

also partly ansaldobreda yippee

[royal python]

hype

[hushed umbra]

2nd class on these is pretty meh

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Thanks for the tag

This information is not useful

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no problem

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It was fine

I didn't need more than what I got

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It says Frecciarossa-1000 on departure boards

[royal python]

Hype hype hype aaaaaaaa

I love them so much

They are so cool and good and pretty

Enjoy

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I'll try to not want to kermit too much

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lol

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FR 9432 21:21+42 - 22:42+? Bologna Centrale - Venezia Mestre

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My seat on that one could recline. It can't on the 1000

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Yesssssssssssssssssssss

🥰🥰🥰

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de 14

thunderbirds plane vibe

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Big sign "no backpacks" right in front of the hostel

Asked the security guard if he had thought about this

[royal python]

Had he thought about this

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Just had to show my booking.com reservation

No power socket next to the bed

Wtf is this hostel

Oh it's just well hidden

Nvm

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Anyway I now have most of a plan to get home

Time to sleep

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enjoy

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Shuttle to Venice proper is like 9-10tph

Flappen

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nice

these need stamping which is funny

FS has too many ticket formats... bonnetjes, small and flap

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I got the small one from the train from the airport to siracusa

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That's stupid

They didn't bother to tell me on the machine

I just got on the train

R 17257 Venezia Mestre - Santa Lucia 10:45-10:56

I like that there's a massive 4 track bridge to the island

Venice time

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Oh lord there's venice

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This looks like the place from Spiderman

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it says in huge print on both ends of the flap

but small chance of ticket check there anyway

but trenitalia inspectors are assholes about this.

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Most text on tickets is useless so why would I bother reading and then bother to parse what is even meant by it

But ah well I guess that's the Mussolini's for you

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GPS isn't great in Venice

Unsurprisingly

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A week really is a tad too long for me to be travelling by myself

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How come

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All my week long trips at the end I'm just no longer really feeling it

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Uitgevenetiëd

RV 3569 Venezia Santa Lucia - Mestre 14:39-14:49

I like station signs in the approach of an emplacement

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I ask google maps "pasta" in hopes of finding a decent restaurant with pasta

Most of the results are for places with reviews saying "If you're tired of pasta or pizza..."

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surely just go into any restaurant

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So it appears that my hostel is in a bit of a chinatown

And when I tried that strategy on my last night in Siracusa it failed

Anyway I found one not too far from here

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remarkable

I mean Chinese is nice as well

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Yes but we have faux Chinese at home

And I haven't had italian pasta yet

I did try the stuff they sell for pasta in the frecciarossa but that was just sad

I've had much better pasta in an AH maaltijdsalade

I also like this; they made the burger king logo quite brown and unsaturated so it doesn't stand out as much

Very good

[brazen mantle]

oh yeah i guess have some italian pasta

i imagine on the train it wouldnt be very good yes

i wonder if they have good regional dishes ther

bigoli in salsa looks cool

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I'll see if they have it

I've already picked a restaurant

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Apparently you're not supposed to get a 1st and a 2nd course as listed on the menu

Idk why it's listed like that then

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huh. you can right. a Primi and secundi.

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Ye but she said antipasti primi is more than enough

[cinder lichen]

pasta and meat usually

antipasti js voorgerecht

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Japanese people next to me struggling with the menu

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Yes

So no 3 courses

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ah like that

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I thought antipasti primi secundi

It's laid out like that

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yeah i never got both primi and secundi

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What's the difference then

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this is pretty much a lot usually

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Other than price

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Primi is pasta's. Secundi's is meat/fish

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Ah

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Basicly hoe any other country has a kopje Pasta, Meat and Fish section on a menu...

this is a pretty good explanation https://www.allesoveritaliaanseten.nl/de-italiaanse-menukaart-uitgelegd/

finish with good dolce and a expresso after the food is nice though

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Ah

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yes primi is pasta/risotto

secundi is meat or fish

I mean pizza is also a separate category

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It seems I only used up half of my interrail ticket

Gotta do another trip like this before January 17th

[minor cave]

Chris ritten nice

Italy again?

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RV 3478 Venezia Mestre - Verona Porta Nuova 6:23-7:38

It's a bit early but I didn't wanna risk Trenitalia throwing me a +30 and making me miss the railjet out of Italy

Not sure if I'd want to do an Italy trip so soon after this one

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I have 6 days left. Could also do 2 3 day weekends

Tho that doesn't answer the question of where to

[minor cave]

Hmm

You're anti France right

Didn't you want to do Baltics

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I don't have the time to do Baltics

Just takes too long

Unfortunately

And ye I prefer other countries