#Chris lore

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Oh of course nowww it's in the app

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Anyway uhh

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???

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is it just pendelen in germany?

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ArrivaLogoChielEdition RE18 Herzogenrath - Aachen Hbf 12:00 - 12:12

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Yup

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or like stuck

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Pendelen

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cool

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what are they doing

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Defecte trein Rijp aan Bovenleiding tussen Herzogenrath en Heerlen

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I did see the drielandenFLIRT get towed

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It would be cool to see this +3 not happen

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It didn't 🎉

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This means an 8 min transfer to the ICE

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DB ICE 16 Aachen Hbf - Liège Guillemins 12:20+14-12:43

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Apple juice time

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Why are we not moving

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I swear to fucking god

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Last time I was in an ICE in Aachen this didn't go so well either

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I would like it to not happen twice

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Door closing sounds

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We're moving :)

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Now I'm wondering if we're even gonna use the HSL3

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I think the Germany Belgium border region is cool

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Yee there's some cool stuff

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New tracks

rich hatch
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Yes this looks like a cool place

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Yee

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I did check

royal python
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Im blind but yay

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We're only going 160kmh when this is 260kmh tracks according to orm

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Bye bye slow line

royal python
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Still better than the 80km/h tsb on 300km/h tracks we had

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Clouds are instantly gone all of a sudden

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I did this with youth ticket and playing dumb

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Illegal

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Anyway this is the last day my interrail is valid so it's essentially free

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I wasn't planning on going, found time to go anyway

royal python
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yes

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Did your trick work?

royal python
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How did that go

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the lady said you can't use this ticket for this train so use the other train next time

royal python
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Cool

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What ticket/route did you even show because the nmbs app wont let you pick aachen with youth ticket right

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nmbs international

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aachen-noorderkempen

royal python
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Ah

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Nice

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this was my last day of stuov

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As I'm approaching Guillemins I'm reminded of the talk I attended about the RE18

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There was a photo and the Arriva guy who worked on the RE18 couldn't answer the question what station was pictured

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It was obvious Guillemins but he said he didn't know. He guessed Liège because there were I10s visible but he'd never been

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I guess only germany driver?

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well and NL

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This guy knows what an I10 is, works for Arriva on the RE18 doesn't know what Liège Guillemins looks like

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royal python
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never doing re18 is one thing but not even ever visiting liege guillemins is unhinged crazy

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also aachen also gets I10

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forget visiting not even recognizing it????

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wtf

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Ye ikr

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Guy works on realising a train route between names on a fucking map I guess

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logo_nmbs IC 2836 Liège - Brussel Noord - Liège via Landen 13:08-14:36

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After this the only line I'll still need in Province Liège is L125A to Flémalle Haute

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nice

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Ah

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Before this trip my Belgium% was 66

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nmbs R 2164 BruLux - Mechelen via Delta en Hofstade 15:27-16:24

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New tracks

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My EC doesn't continue past Noorderkempen?

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I'll see when I get to Antwerp

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R1765 Mechelen - Antwerpen via Mortsel Liersesteenweg

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Time for Appie

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Let's go Roosendaal I guess

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R2567 Antwerpen - Roosendaal 17:50-18:39

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MS75 🥰

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I would've preferred the I10 right now

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i10?

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Is that not what the use on the Eurocity to Bread?

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thats i11

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Oh

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i10 is older yes

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I10 is nicer though

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I did not know

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i10 is lot older

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a belgian domestic built eurofima derivative

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some still without AC and being hangable

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Lux-Bru trains should have 1 i10 for bikes

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i10 is so good

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i11 is meh

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IC Roosendaal - Ht 18:57 - 19:48

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Bus

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Kinda happy lore is over because it's cold outside

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is it cold inside trains

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No

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But lore usually means lots of transfers

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66% → 70%

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nice

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dit was weer relatief veel gedoe voor bescheide percentage

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Maar wel een paar vervelende lijntjes

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Alleen niet echt boogjes

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ja klopt

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ik niet per se uit naar de langzame luik leuven

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dit sloot voor mij eigenlijk ook nergens op aan toen ik het deed

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My Belgium map

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Cool how you never did the mainline to luxemburg from brussel

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Gotta check out the brand new station + good for the map

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Yeah I went from Liège and then visited Bouillon via Athus

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I reckoned it would've been a good excuse to cross off that line

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I wond if (Oostende-)Brugge-Charleroi-Louvain la Neuve - Bilzen - Maastricht would be a doable daytrip for you

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Maybe

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I much prefer basing trips around P-boogjes

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Getting in the longer distances is relatively easy

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And of course it's the long distances that move the % up the most

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But to get to 100% you'll need to do the P-boogjes too

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fair enough

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Like Genk and the other stuff I'm missing in Limburg is probably relatively easy to combine with the P-trein that does the Lier linelet and the Mechelen avoiding boog

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There's a P-boogje at Kortrijk that I might be able to combine with trains in West Vlaanderen

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The NMBS website doesn't list Youth Holiday dates yet for 2025

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I think so

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The Kortrijk avoider

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that’s the t

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summer only

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I know

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no one here still needs the paridaiza one right

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I don't know this name

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I think jurbise? avoiding

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Yeah I've done that line already

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Brussels - cambron casteau or whatever it’s called

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I still need that

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That's weekends in summer holiday + easter I believe

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Dit heeft de boogjes die ik nog moet

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yep

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P-boogjes anyway, Belgium also has normal boogjes that are used by just a few lines

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16:56 - 17:52 DB ICE154 's-Hertogenbosch - Amsterdam Centraal

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Träwelling hates me

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enjoy

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tomorrow?

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that's the plan ye

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pretty chill

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what ticket is this on

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FIP

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thought so

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Still need to use them up

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Looks good

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Hopefully this will be cool mat

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Nice plan

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ns 6631 Ht - Bd 10:03-10:37

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EC 9224 Bd - BruNo Antwerp 10:42+7 - 12:05 11:32

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+6 still here, no announcement

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afgeschaft

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Station announcement blaming problems in the Netherlands when the conductor said the doors won't close

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IC 4533 Antwerp - BruNo 11:54+1 - 12:29

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This essentially ate up my entire buffer

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Approached by 4 beggars in the first few minutes

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5

still yarrow
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average brussels moment

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6

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How can the systems that be fuck it all up so badly

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7

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2063 BruNo - Denderleeuw (via Jette) 13:14+2-13:49

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Estimated+4 arrival

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That would be very bad

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It was a prank

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It was perfectly on time

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2063 Denderleeuw - Geraardsbergen 13:55-14:24

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We are not leaving

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Y

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NMBS hates me today

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I have a 30 min transfer in Geraardsbergen but this is slowly disappearing

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I have a backup but it involves going to Brussels Midi

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geraardsbergen is nice

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I should go cycle here

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Er zijn nog steeds problemen bij de blokpost

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Er mogen geen treinen Denderleeuw in of uit

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I should plan B

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Right so if the train doesn't leave in like 5 minutes I'm probably not making my connection at Geraardsbergen

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Going back to Midi instead would mean leaving at 14:50

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It really doesn't sound like this is gonna be solved by then

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Trains cannot enter Denderleeuw

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So that train also cannot enter Denderleeuw

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Continuing on this path to take a different, later but closer P-trein isn't an option either as I'll miss it by 1 minute

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I could get out and take a later train to Midi and then I could do that other P-trein

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But again

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No other trains can enter Denderleeuw atm

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And I'm not feeling getting out of a heated train because I could possibly get a different train when I don't even know if there will be a different train at all at this point

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Oh wait the other P-trein runs 3 times

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I'll continue to Halle and if this doesn't take that long I'll take the train to Braine to take the P-trein to Mange

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Ooh a train just moved

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prank afgeschaft

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whats going on

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Seinstoring

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My train from Denderleeuw to Geraardsbergen got afgeschaft once trains started to run again

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so what’s plan now

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Take the first train that will take me to Brussels

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sterkte

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2213 Denderleeuw - BruMi 14:20+41 - 14:35+?

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Wait hold up

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I was in the wrong hour

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I might be able to get the Mons- Manage P-trein

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The train I was planning on getting from Brussel arrives in Mons on time for me to catch it

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And the Mons - Manage one runs once daily, while the Braine one runs way more often

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1736 15:26-16:11 BruMi - Mons

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Also mons my very very very beloved

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Please take station pics

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I havent visited the station post-opening yet

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Belgium has really pretty old stations

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I'll see what I can do

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In all cases: enjoy its such a pretty and epic station

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I'm snails pace into Mons

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Hype

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I really like the passerelle. It's very imposing

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Yesssssss

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Thank you

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P 8775 16:22-16:56 Bergen - Manage

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The passerelle reminds me of like a big cathedral or smth

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But with more modern vibes also

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Reisadviezen

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Anyway Eurocity afgeschaft

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I'll have to go Roosendaal again probably

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Boog

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Or actually a straight

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In a wye that is otherwise not used for passenger rail

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Belgian platforms

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4288 Manage - La Louviere Centre 17:24-17:32
3417 La Louviere Centre - Halle 17:44-18:19

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Loving all these Belgian trains

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Gare de Manage & surroundings is very treurtrip

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Is the thing still for sale?

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God this looks even worse than when I was there

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The thing

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3367 Halle - Mechelen 18:31-19:52

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DUIKBRIL 🥰 🥰 🥰 🥰

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Minion

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sus

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The only nmbs type I have 0 ritten with

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Funny 1st class

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Only slight improvements today

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Time to wait half an hour at Mechelen

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I ran

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Fuck Mechelen

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Didn't like waiting there last time

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maybe don’t plan an overstap there then

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I needed St. job - BruLux

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4518 Mechelen - Antwerpen 19:49+5 - 20:06

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Illegal transfer

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😎

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Had I not caught this I would've looked for a different train or just taken the L

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are you going Roosendaal or are there Breda trains again?

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I forgot that I had planned a detour

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With the detour I can take the Breda train

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DB app keeps recommending I take the European sleeper to Roosendaal

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Kijk dit is het echte werk

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EC 9267 Antwerpen - Breda 20:45-21:18

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geniet ervan

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So the EC has only 1 1st class wagon

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I was in seat 71 on the way to Antwerp, and now I'm in seat 71 on the way back

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Not on purpose

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Spr 6676 Bd-Ht 21:23-21:58

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0 min transfer to the fucking bus >:(

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the man in seat 71

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It cold

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enjoy

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It wason sncb vastgoed or something

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I need to pick a new P-trein for tomorrow

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which do you have left

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Might do the second la louviere P-boog

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this way I'll be done with Wallonia

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The Braine-Manage one runs thrice a day

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Last time I went from Trainlog 70% to 72%

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Had to update real quick to get my map

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Braine - Manage - Luttre is a very logical choice

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Maybe I can do Flemalle-Haute on the way back

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Hmm this P-train doesn't run tomorrow at all

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There are no P-treinen tomorrow

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Most aren't in hafas

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Aalst-burst runs

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that narrows my options significantly

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Aalst-burst it is

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beware there are two braines

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actually three

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hafas only has 1 Braine le comte

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but only two have a station

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this is on a different line

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and since none of the other p-treinen run tomorrow when they do run next week

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hafas prompts you to choose a braine so it's fine

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hm interesting

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brain that has a bike only railway i guess

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bad

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????????????

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just tomorrow

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whats this

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the direct line between geraardsbergen and denderleeuw not running outside of peak hours but running in the morning and afternoon

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Are they doing maintenance in all of belgium tomorrow or smth?

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Hmm

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Maybe weekenddienstregeling?

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idk

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Looks likeit

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I'll just see how to get a refund on this ticket because I know it's possible

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for the whole week

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talking about that, I should check if I can get to brussel zaterdag

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oh right

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I forgor

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yeah this makes sense

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also epxlains why aalst-burst is running when the rest isn't

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minimale dienstregeling

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Its totally vague and on a day by day base whats actually happening and stakend.

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Its like one minor vakbond. so probably they indeed can keep a reduced service running pretty easy

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Yes but I go from hasselt

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They say drgl is bekend 2 days ahead so I should be fine tho

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NS 6621 Sprinter 7:33-8:07

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08:42 - 09:16 NMBS EC9216 Breda - Antwerpen Centraal

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logo_nmbs IC 709 9:36-11:51 Antwerpen - Lille

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Het past

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oui_ go 7835 13:00-14:08 Lille - Chessy

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14:24 - 14:59 RATP/SNCF RER A TERI Marne-la-Vallée-Chessy - Nation

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Rer

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Rer

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Parisians stole €5 from me

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chris toeristenbelasting

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sncf 8551 Montparnasse - Hendaye 18:06+? - 22:40

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How do French tgv ritnummers work

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they don't

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the first two digits can give out the line but there's no logic on it iirc

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23:03 - 23:09 Euskotren E2 Hendaia - Belaskoenea

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Last train of the day

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This one looks cool

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they’re very good trains I think

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though I hope they don’t use this same type for San Sebastián to Bilbao because they’re very metro trains

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Ye

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Not super comfy

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Very good

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10:39 - 11:00 Euskotren E2 Belaskoenea - Herrera

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11:01 - 11:03 Euskotren E5 Herrera - Altza

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11:05 - 11:20 Euskotren E5 Altza - Amara

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Funicular Monte Icueldo 12:30-12:33

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Funicular Monte Icueldo 13:02-13:05

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13:13 - 13:31 dbus 16 Funikularea - Boulevard 19

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14:50 - 16:53 Euskotren E1 Amara - Amorebieta Geltokia

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Time for a wee sprint in a bit

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Made the transfer

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17:00 - 17:42 Euskotren E4 Amorebieta Geralekua - Bermeo

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19:47 - 21:04 Euskotren E4 Bermeo - Zazpikaleak/Casco Viejo

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are you having fun?

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Yee

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Good food

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Decent views

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Trains could be better

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Reading a book

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A sequel of what I'd read when I was with Tinny all those years ago

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no fucking way

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he told me about this

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@terse bison

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I did

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That was fucking years ago

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On the subject of years ago, Chris also back in Spain???

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I'm just on holiday now

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Not planning to stay here for 5 months only to leave 4 weeks in

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You can leave 7 weeks in and call it a day

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Bilbao good

terse bison
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Whoops

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Busteeeed

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I'm a reliable plasma physicist. I can be trusted around unusual atmospheric phenomenon

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21:40 - 21:42 metro bilbao L2 Moyua - Indautxu

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Chrisrit

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We were celebrating the metro working again

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8:12 - 8:14 metro bilbao L2 Indauxtu - Abando

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TVV apparently

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RenfeLogoChielEdition2 R3/MD 71870 8:30+6 - 11:4210:09 TVV Bilbao - Santander Gibaja

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Guess I'll have to come back some day for nice feve trains

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renfe 10:05+8 - 11:42+32 Gibaja - Santander

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Train

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box.

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15:34 - 21:01 Renfe Cercanias AM R2 Santander - Oviedo 15:40 - 16:54 Renfe Cercanias AM C2 Santander - Calbezón de la Sal

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Geweldig man

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De 3810

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gaat het?

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Ja

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We zitten nu in een achterlijk dorp

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En de plannen voor morgen zijn iets anders

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Maar dit valt allemaal te overzien

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random baskische gehuchten nice 🥰

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Dit is Cantabria

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dit is gewoon nog niet eens halverwege naar oviedo

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Bij lange na niet nee

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Wij zijn er morgen pas om 14:00

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succes

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hebben jullie wel een plek om te slapen?

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ja

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dit was prio een

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dat lukt altijd wel

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Apparently we're getting TVV'ed again

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nice they also have their own version of the stupid blind spot stickers

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RenfeLogoChielEdition2 R2 TVV Cabezón - Llanes 9:31+38 - 11:19

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RenfeLogoChielEdition2 R2 Llanes - Oviedo 11:01+20 - 13:56+18

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Trein

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Raamhangbaar

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vgm alleen vanuit de cabine

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Bij de deuren

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Vierkantsleutel

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ja dit gaat helaas niet

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Oei

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Jullie hebben wel echt een van de ongelukkigste timings om naar spanje te gaan

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Hoezo?

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Mf stroomstoring the grote van spanje

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dit viel dus heel erg mee voor onze planning

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Dit was 1 uur lang in Bilbao

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En de dag erop tvv maar that's it

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De kutzooi gister en de TVV vandaag was gwn Renfe incompetentie

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07:19+32 - 14:44 11:34+1 Renfe Cercanias AM R1 Oviedo - Ferrol Ribadeo

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11:34+5 - 14:44 Renfe Cercanias AM R1 Ribadeo - Ferrol

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Lights of this keep switching off and then on again

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renfe MD 9073 A Coruña - Vigo Urzaiz 7:00-8:40+14

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Casual 11 hour delay

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Mar de Ons 1 15:00-15:22 Vigo - Cangas

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hoe zat het met de vigo overstap?

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dit kun je hier wel uit concluderen toch

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gewoon renfe ging lekker stil staan op de vrije baan

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gratis +10 aan je broek

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mooi

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Renfe

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wat zijn de effecten op de lange termijn planning?

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We kunnen niet echt genieten van Porto

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Hier komen we vnv laat

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Maar daar blijft het gelukkig bij

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Dit geeft meer rede om Porto weer te bezoeken

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Pochino

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We just crossed the Atlantic

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mar de ons 1 🚢 17:30-17:54 Cangas - Vigo

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twee treinen per dag moment

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j

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dit moment hebben we al een keer eerder gehad

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maar toen hebben we de tweede trein van de dag gemist om 16:32

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Dit was wel door slechte reisinformatie van Renfe

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Kan gebeuren

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19:56 - 21:18+44 CP/Renfe IC/TC422 Vigo Guixar - Porto Campanhã

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he he

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CP

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22:25 - 22:31 Metro do Porto F Campanhã - Trinidade

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10:09 - 10:12 Metro do Porto D Marquês - Trinidade

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Leuk

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10:16+2- 10:22 Metro do Porto E Trinidade - Campanhã

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We have a nice 38 minute transfer in entrocamento to the last train of the day

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10:45+14 - 12:58+26 CP IC720 Porto Campanhã- Entroncamento

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portugal really is fuck about and find out

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Fucking last train of the day at 13:36

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logo_cp 485 Entroncamento - Badajoz 13:36+3-17:26+3

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badajoz

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Back to Spain

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Good

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Spain time

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27 april 21:11 - 21:14 metro bilbao L1 Zazpikaleak Casco Viejo - Indautxu

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Teun is logging trains

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06:50+1 - 12:44 Renfe MD18331 Badajoz - Alcázar de San Juan

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We have a platform

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Renfe Alvia 694 13:42+84 - 14:19+83 Alcazar - Albacete

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Est arrival atm 16:26

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It's become 16:14

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Grijsrijden regio Castilla

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Conductor didn't care that we don't have a reservation the entire way

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Or she didn't check

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Renfe AVE 5742 Albacete - Murcia 16:00+24-17:52+19

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Our train just now

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Anschluss to Cartagena wartet

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Renfe Proximidad 14544 Murcia - Cartagena 18:15+8 - 19:13

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Are you having fun?

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pretty good yes

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chris gave up on these transfers very quickly but in spain Anschluss Warted

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I guess

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Yeah I guess I didn't really have faith in the consequences of incompetence

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Lol

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I warned you

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No you didn't

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I don't remember you saying Anschluss wartet in Spain

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I did
With the buses

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The tvv

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Yeah but this was tvv onto the same rit

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Not really a transfer

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Ight you got me there

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Got €24 for our 11 hour adventure in Vigo

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11:40+1 - 12:13 Renfe Cercanias AM C-4 Cartagena Ancho Métrico - Los Nietos

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Conductor kinda confused

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12:20+1 - 12:53 Renfe Cercanias AM C-4 Los Nietos - Cartagena Ancho Métrico

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Alsa L16 Cartagena - Las Bodegas 15:30-15:40

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Buses

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likeur

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Si

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Found someone to drive us home

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Saves us about an hour waiting

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Turns out there's no bar here

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They're not the best navigators

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Renfe IC 01460 Cartagena - Valencia 11:55+1-17:09+50

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Minor delays

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Minor inconvenience

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Had this in portugal, blasted with 120 by it

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Fuck delays

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They took the right track out of service for this

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Cross platform

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Very nice

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Renfe 460 Valencia - Barcelona 17:30+37 - 20:57+44

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Rodalies Renfe R1 25691 Sants - San Andreu del Llavaneres 22:24+3 - 23:17

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Interesting looking train

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Rodalies Renfe RG1 30853 San Andreu del Llavaneres - Maçanet-Massanes 7:17+18 - 8:07+44

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Renfe is of the opinion they always meant to run this train so much later

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Adif says the train is simply too late

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Problems with the door it seems 😔

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Can't leave this station yet

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So correction :
Rodalies Renfe RG1 30853 San Andreu del Llavaneres - Maçanet-Massanes Girona 7:17+18 - 8:07+44 8:34+46

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sncf TGV Girona - Narbonne 10:10+11 - 11:37

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sncf IC Narbonne - Marseille 14:02+3 - 16:37+1

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Quite comfy seats

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corail my beloved

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enjoy it while it lasts too, in a few years they'll be replaced by caf emus :c

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It lasts about 2,5 hours

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You'd almost think conductors are also on strike

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technically speaking I think they are

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Haven't been checked once

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Girona was just a big box with a conveyor but no ticket check either

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Gotta speedrun it tho

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Don't have much time there

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french IC, nice

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This was quite nice

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Damn french QR gates work with interrail

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Quite the downgrade in comfort

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This is a TER

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marseille - nice ?

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Oui

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they're still running loco hauled stuff there nice

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sncf TER 17489 Marseille - Toulon 16:57 - 17:40

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I do recall seeing a streamlined nose on the other end of this thing. Push pull maybe even?

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yes

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Nice

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Do you not see how long this train is

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Of course it has first class coaches

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I mean mine were declassified

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so you could just sit there if you wanted in my case

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Idk there were clear 2nd and 1st class stickers on the outside here

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Geroodseind Sanary

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This ibis budget has an actual door for the toilet & shower

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Oh you guys split up

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Cool

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Ye

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sncf 17475 TER Toulon - Nice 10:41 - 12:37

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corail again?

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We'll see

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Decent chance it's similar to what I had yesterday

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Found one of these comfy ones

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Nice

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I have 2 hours planned in Monaco. This should be more than enough to see everything worth seeing

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Train stored here

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RRR

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My arms still hurt from falling yesterday

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sncf TER 86035 Nice-Monaco 12:50-13:14

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Woman here with a CDG-AMS Finnair bag label, waiting for the train from Nice to Ventimiglia

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specifiek

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Cdg-ams finnair interesting

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Airport baggage tags typically only include the destination though

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Idk

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It was formatted like
CDG
AMS

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If your tag has two airports it usually means you had a layover

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I think

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Maybe

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Layover in CDG when flying to AMS only to then be seen going to Italy in southern france feels weird

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Very nice water

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Yes

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I believe this is the Côte d'Azur

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Which translates to Azure coast

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I can see where it gets the name

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I can see where it gets the name

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Do they dye the water?

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Ah there's limestone particulate in the water causing it to be a bit lighter

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Nächste halt Monaco Monte Carlo

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Okay I'm going dark

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Data costs money

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Oh there's free wifi everywhere

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Ads only for the super rich

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Private jets, super car insurance

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The entire city is impossible to navigate due to F1 preparations

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Wifi is also shit

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Buildings are about as dik as any other southern french city

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If you like architecture you're probably better off in Marseille or Nice.

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You can say you went to a new country now though

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And I think the landscape is pretty cool

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The surrounding landscape is pretty cool ye

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And I can say I properly 100%ed the country, and didn't just pass through it

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sncf TER 86043 Monaco - Ventimiglia 14:46-15:13+3

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I finally have reception again

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Didn't have any until halfway to Ventimiglia in Italy

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I did get a welcome to France text but it arrived at the same time as my welcome to Italy one

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Good water

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This is where they pump the white dye into the Mediterranean

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will you take the tenda railway?

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I'm going to Cuneo through France if that answers your question

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Seems like the answer would be yes

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it is

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Based on the fridge magnets sold in this town there isn't much worth seeing

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Didn't see much on google maps either

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There's a gravel beach with some garbage

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trenitalia R22958 Ventimiglia - Cuneo 16:20+1-19:19

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Amazing

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Boomer with a cigarette that was partially burnt to ash but is somehow off got told off by the driver for smoking on the train

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Boomer just pulled a no u and the driver fucked off

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It's departure time and the driver fucked off to somewhere

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No idea where

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Right it was the conductor

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Makes more sense

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When are you logging Chris

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I'm Trainlogging when I get back home

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besides the fact that the tunnels seen to take forever, its a great rit

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The views are pretty great

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Found a seat on the right side, as I noticed it was consistently better

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This river is really cool tho

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We are going very stapvoets

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We stopped going stapvoets finally

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I feel like the 10ish kmh section was accounted for in the timetables

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Arrived at the next station only +2 and it's a 5 min stop

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There's quite a few long stops

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It has unfortunately started to rain

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Another stapvoets bit

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People appear to be getting on and/or off

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We are not on time here

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+4 departure

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Tegentrein, which explains a bit, but not even half of our delay

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We leave the station still only going stapvoets

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I either have a 5 min or a 2h 5min transfer at Cuneo so I really would prefer we don't go stapvoets

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Alternatively that the definition of stapvoets was 40km/h here

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Looks like an ECTS L1 L

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Having to very slowly approach a signal to fetch an MA update really is putting the L in Level 1

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Still on time

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Reaching the part of the line where it becomes useful for people other than tourists

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+2 out of the penultimate station

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The train is fucking doorgekoppeld

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There was no need to panic about this at all

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Alps

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The flat part of Italy really do be flat

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po vallei?

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Ye

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rip

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Very enthusiastic host

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Very cool

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This is what breakfast included means here

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Lots of beggars in this city

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not the worst

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lot of food tbh

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could be lunch too

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Certainly

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It apparently even includes small drink cartons of juices

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nice

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what flavours

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I'll check in a bit

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At the pizza place now

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Poah

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They don't speak English

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Very nice

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Also real wood oven

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Kinda funny how the only bad reviews for this place are people expecting 10+ pizzas to be ready simultaneously

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Times like this kinda make me wish my Italian was half as good as my Spanish

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But half Spanish and handen-voetenwerk works wonders

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I had this in Croatia too

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idk what they’re cooking

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interesting

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enjoy

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Thanks

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what else?

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nespresso

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I get to use the blarenpleisters I bought in Luxembourg

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trenitalia FR 9607 Turin - Milan 5:50-6:50+6

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I have a cuckchair

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In the end this trip will have featured 9 countries

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The Netherlands
Belgium
France
Spain
Portugal
Monaco
Italy
Switzerland
Germany

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Geroodseind Milano Centrale

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Right next to what i presume to be my next train

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That's not correct

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trenitalia EC 60 Milan - Spiez 7:10-9:53

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Transfering at Spiez isn't such a crazy idea actually

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DB app seat reservations aren't too expensive.

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But it gets better

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I can see which seats are free

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Dutch people in my carriage 😱

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good

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DB ICE 278 Spiez - Frankfurt 10:23+2 - 15:08+3

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joever

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The entire population of Switzerland got in at Olten

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they do this yes

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It used Eurobalises tho

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There were eurobalises and crocodiles in the tracks

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SCMT uses eurobalises, crocodiles is for the french one that is only available on part of the railway

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I thought SCMT uses those flat things

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That's tragic, but just because the french dont really care about that, since it's mostly used by italian trains

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it has been like that for years

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This is not a eurobalise

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And the country is peppered with primarily these

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it can use both, likely those one are older that the standardization to the eurobalise, then it depends on the manufacturer and many other things.
That line is definitely fully equipped with SCMT though, it's on the line douments

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Could be

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Oh GLEISÄNDERUNG

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Twice in a minute

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Idk what it was before but it sure is 18 rn

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Geroodseind before Fft Hbf

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We were going so well

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Slated to be on time even

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this is very good still by German standards

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Absolutely

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I made a 17 min transfer

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Didn't have to run

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Amazing

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db ICE 122 Frankfurt - Arnhem 15:27 - 18:27+5

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Time to go home

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You know the half hour wait in Arnhem being exactly as fast as the short transfer in Utrecht is nice because now DB can DB and it won't be much of a problem

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posted while geroodseind in front of Messe Deutz

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Once you cross the border, does anything even matter?

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DB trains will DB even in the Netherlands

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You know how this works

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But you have like choices

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Which germany doesnt really offer

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Well if I'm late the Utrecht option falls away

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If I'm on time the Utrecht option only gives more risk

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The choices are theoretical

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Had something gone wrong with my ICE transfer a realistic option would've been RE13

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That's real choices

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ns IC 3063 Arnhem - Nijmegen 18:35-18:47

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Beats waiting on the platform

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Good rit

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Thanks for this

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Cool if I can make a 1 min transfer at Nm I can save like 15 min, partially due to 3600 being late

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If I miss this I will have to wait for the 3600

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VIRM 8726 if you care

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Just missed it

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Ah well

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Nothing lost

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Photo of train gained

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ns 6671 Nijmegen - Den Bosch Oss 19:18 - 19:58 19:40

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This would be +22 on arrival. The most delay I've had since arriving to Barcelona

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France, Italy, Switzerland and Germany were all better

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Of course Spain was Spain, and Idem Portugal and the timetable is a suggestion

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This sprinter is inexplicably not on träwelling

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Oh there's multiple nijmegens with trains

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The 3600 has started moving

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But pad kwijt so it will be stuck behind us most likely

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Dammit they're gonna make us wait at Oss

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ns 3669 Oss - Den Bosch 19:24+21 - 19:36+20

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I took 3 trains only to end up on the one I was avoiding

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This is now 7 min faster than the sprinter because it delayed the sprinter by 5 min

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7617

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I might fully stop using träwelling

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They no longer automatically log ritnrs which I use to quickly copy my commute

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No ⬜ . This was a genuinely useful tool

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until they fucked it up

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and why?

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Right

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since leaving Barcelona then

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This is quite a nice rondje

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8.8/10 map

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This is a good map

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Thanks

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jammer dat je niet over de BLS pas ging

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Italy remains one of my favourite destinations

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I primarily just wanted to go home after 2 weeks

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still got 4 interrail days left

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flights in the remainder of the validity period are relatively expensive

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4 is pretty kut

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You could like Germany Switzerland or France

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Anything further is pretty hard

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you can like hungary with night train I guess

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I don't wanna get hate crimed

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I don't think you're that visibly gay

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I have long hair

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And Hungary is hungary

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But Hungary sounds lame regardless

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this too

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hungary trains can be good

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hungary is just fields

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and ngl, they probably dont hate crime in hungaria

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4 hours of hungarian fields

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so cool

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hungarian trains are cheap anyways tho

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so you can just use 2 days to get there and 2 to go back

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I don't wanna go subsidise Orbanland anyway

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Doesn't seem like a good country

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If I wanna do the classic plane to Italy, train back, there's a €36 EIN-PSA

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But this means missing father's day

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which is probably fine

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Hungary is pretty links outside dorpen

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Boedapest is more woke then your current barbecue

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Orban is more woke than my current barbecue

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I don't have much of a choice with this barbecue anyway

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boedapest is pretty woke yes

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hungary doesnt have that much outside budapest anyway thats interesting

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velden

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which makes it not a very good country to trains to

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po valley without pizza

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but with diesel getrokken rijtuig treinen

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idc

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Top trips I've done by distance over land:
Scandinavia 2022: 9292km
Iberia 2025: 6824km
Sicily 2024: 3485km
UK 2024: 3283km
Bratislava 2024: 2828km

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casually 100% a country..

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it was quite the challenge

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Aarhus hostel has been arranged

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Gast doe dit niet

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Weggegooide interrail dagen als ik dit niet doe

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Kies wat beters dan aarhus

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Dit was €43 voor 2 nachten

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En natuurlijk redelijk op de route

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Jasper hou je bek

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Dit wordt dik

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Nee rico

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Dit is een nachtmerrie

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ik ben hier hyped voor

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Doing Skagen

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Not sure if I'm gonna do the other branch

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I might

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do vltj 👀

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i mean, you'd need another hostel, but still

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what is vltj

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the one with denmark's oldest trains, the y trains

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they're retiring them very soon

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it's the lemvig line

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I see

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Don't have time for that I'm afraid

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damn

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just a 3 day weekend

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its why i went to denmark

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oh yeah

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dik

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Yes

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But there's also the other line into nordjylland on the other side

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As well as the Hirtshals branch

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thisted

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this is a lot rarer

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ge je niet hirtsalts

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I might

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jutland is allmost 100% able in 3 dagen

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Getting there takes almost an entire day

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yes. but eep tonder or smth

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then direct train to aarhus via esbjerg

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(are some doorgekoppelde ritten)

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and you already have a big section done

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I don't have time for this unfortunately

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i guess it needs more strategic eep locations too

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I should look into a touristy route to get to Aarhus

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Maybe Niebüll - Esbjerg - Herning - Aarhus or smth

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Now this is pod racing

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I could do a bunch more fun stuff then

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only overstap you need is in tønder

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but idk if you can make this work from NL

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I can be in Aarhus 18:42 if I go direct via Fredericia

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Hmm this would be a no buffer kinda deal

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isnt aarhus in a day already krap with ic,ice and ec?

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If I'm miss the 35 min transfet at Esbjerg I can go direct to Aarhus even with +3h

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Is just chills there for half an hour?

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yes

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cool

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then in herning it changes number again

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at least the one i took

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This really isn't too bad

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niebull aansluiting would be most spannend. how frequent is that to tonder

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is that a real transfer or doorgekoppeld?

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niebul is a overstap form IC to NEG

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tonder is overstap but blijft wachten

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No at Tønder

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ah

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sorry I wasn't clear

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so if I miss the 1607 one there's one 2 hours later,