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Lies mal!

Nova Gorica (and Gorizia) have been great! I’m so glad I went. Even though most of the cultural programming is sort of over, there is lots to see and explore, hills and castles to climb and views to enjoy. Favs so far: Nova Gorica’s proper station pub with […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The @diningcar I’m sitting in right now has 40 comfortable seats with chairs and tables 👍 The dining car I sat in before had ~12 seats, of which 8 were sort of comfortable but not really. #railjet2, not a favourite :(

It's always fun to witness the implicit agreement between graffiti artists and train engineers - don't screw with the important markings and we won't screw with your graffiti (on cargo trains at least).

@wrzlbrnft oh ja haha da sind sie die Typen, die im Panoramawagen die Rollos runter machen, und das auch noch zwischen Mallnitz und Villach 😱 (und die, die am Rechner arbeiten oder nur auf ihr Handy starren und mir die Fensterplätze wegnehmen)

Die frühe Ente fängt den … ach egal … Kaffee

I always try to visit at least one of the European capitals of culture of the year – next week attempting Nova Gorica / Gorizia – but first, Interrailing is interrupted by Wahlhelfen in Bonn. Auch wichtig!

Pretty cool slippers made from old silk stockings. Save your coupons! (🤔) https://archive.org/details/krl00648092

Planet Money on how money works in Gaza right now. An excellent episode and extraordinary glimpse into daily life there with no cash machines, little electricity and money physically disintegrating. Give it a listen! […]

Wenn der DB Navigator in der Verbindungsansicht Helvetica statt Bahnschrift zeigt, frage ich mich immer, ob ich nur zu ungeduldig war oder das ein Zeichen für hohe Abfrageraten insgesamt ist. Geht wieder weg mit Neustart aber interessanter glitch

Älplermagronen zum Trost, dass ich grad einen Sitz im Nachtzug von Zurich nach Amsterdam buchen musste da 🛋️ ausgebucht 😭

#BahnBubble … das heißt, Philipp Nagl muss gehen? Weiß jemand warum? (Ich meine mehr als »detailverliebter Führungsstil«)

Tunnock’s Tea Cakes > Dickmanns Schokoschaumküsse

100% compensation if your train is delayed by 1 hour! Deutsche Bahn would totally implode

I’m on Par!

I don’t want to say goodbye to Sheffield, it’s been so wonderful. With the sun, with the rain, with all the music from my youth they are playing all over the place. Rutland Arms is my new living room

Wishing everyone competing at #tramwm in Vienna today a good, soft and precise stop and go or whatever the challenges this time. Yay trams! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J_qJbtNkAEw

Back at the Ringinglow alpacas before more Alpaca this afternoon. Couldn’t resist to do the Sheffield Round Walk instead of workshops this morning. Ideal weather❣️ PS who of Bahnbubble was into miniature railways and do they already have the Abbeydale one? http://sheffieldmodelengineers.com

How are these people not cold‽

Sheffield is walking through a sketchy waste management site for a little bit too long to get to an amazing lookout over the city in beautiful nature just to get rained upon and having to hurry to the next pub past cool street food courts and derelict 30s warehouse architecture gems no […]

So what should I do in and around Sheffield in the next three days? Apart from visiting more urban 🦙* I’m in walking fever now. It’s Buckhardt-year after all. Darum ist die Landschaft schön!** * https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/sheffield/ ** […]

Wtf I climbed a rock, didn’t mean to

Rainy start of the day and I didn’t feel well at all last night (thanks, Birmingham conference cold!) so I decided not to hike across the Mam Tor ridge but take a more mellow route to Hathersage via Hope. I love the concept of public footpaths in the UK. Some […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Cute Edale! That was a tough, stony walk (430 m up and 366 down) and I was going very slow, I thought, but I made it in Mapy’s predicted 4:02 h on the clock to the cafe despite taking some detours and different route decisions (best stick to the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Having spent a few days in Birmingham and now Manchester – two cities I had once thought comparable from afar – the contrast couldn’t be more stark. Birmingham is a dirty and ugly, car-centric pedestrian nightmare (sorry) while Manchester is a joy to explore. Rental bikes, free or cheap buses to […]

How is it possible that Luxemburg (city) to Brussels is 3:33 h by Intercity (😂) train in 2025? That is Romanian-level speed for 220 km. Luxemburg–London could be such a good train connection if it wasn’t for this. But at 6:46 h everyone flies.

So this discount note in the #interrail app, do only I see that? Can’t find that offer on the website, also not if I click this Get-it-now-button 🤔

Wecker auf halb sechs 😱🎒

Radio-Verkehrsdurchsagen aber für die Bahn #wasfehlt

For those in design/typography who read French and wish they were at the #rencontresdelure right now: @julieblanc is live-covering the event ☀️🍷🍹 (I wish I was in Lurs *and* read French 😭)

Speaking of Kaunas lettering, two more favourites: sign to European capital cities at Kaunas train station – incidentally all places I have visited during my Big Euro Tour 22 – and Autodromas at Vytauto Park

»Das Auto ist nie zu Ende erfunden worden.« Lucius Burckhardt (Foto aus der Ausstellung in der Basler Uni-Bibliothek)

“as industries age and start seeing their own collapse over the horizon, they tend to get… defensive. Bitter. Conservative. Fucking hostile. (Yes, I’m talking about people too.) Tech, which has always made progress in astounding leaps and bounds, is just speedrunning the cycle faster than any […]

Falls ihr auch Zucchinischwemme habt: mit Knoblauch, Rosmarin, Chili anbraten bzw. kurz dünsten, dazu gekochte Hirse und (veganer) Feta. Ich will seit Tagen nichts anderes essen! 😋

I can’t believe I did my taxes on time this year and even a day before the deadline! No idea what to do with the rest of the day what is all this free time and Leichtigkeit

Colin Cone the Weird Kaesekamp and the mayor of Bonn are the coolest. Saar/Lorraine represent! https://nrw.social/@BundesstadtBonn/114912673896903407

Rural Hessen is somehow really calming. Unbusy trains (because they are long enough), softly rolling landscapes, evening sun … if only there wasn’t the 4/5 minute Endgegner-Umstieg in Siegen …

I’m still so happy about this platform, every day, and have a lot of fun on Mastodon. Just donated a bit to the org. https://donate.stripe.com/00g5l42h8ezY3YcaEE

Missing the good old @HipsterGelato Twitter account right now. https://mastodon.social/@ChuculatiPicchu/114863761441091471

Für wen lohnt sich dein persönlicher Verzicht? Who profits off of our personal sacrifices? https://kirche.social/@emk/114830213124741695

I had the best time in Kassel at the Lucius Burckhardt convention IV. Old teachers, current colleagues, new friends. Really need to make it to Basel within the next 5 weeks to check out the exhibition at Universitätsbibliothek. https://www.lucius-burckhardt.org

Warum hat Apple Maps ÖPNV info und Fahrpläne für Kassel aber Goo Maps nicht? 🤔

#angrytextile https://taz.de/Uni-in-Nigeria-kontrolliert-Studentinnen/!6091703/

Das Spielfeld müsste man mal irgendwann abfahren

Poppl-Laudatio will be the next big thing in #fonts

Ooof, one hour outside and already soaked in the 31 (so far) degree weather. Also the tram seem not really air conditioned, or it can’t cope. Knitting outside pretty much impossible 🥵🥵🥵

Don’t forget: tomorrow is #Knitting-in-public-day! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Knit_in_Public_Day Fittingly, the weather forecast predicts 35°C 😭 I hope it’s still bearable in the morning and will chose some cotton yarn. Anyone planning something fun?

Die Geschichte und das Wesen des TGV in Deutschlandfunk Hintergrund. Recht gute Folge, finde ich. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/tgv-schnellzug-frankreich-100.html

Since Adobe changed the shortcut to zoom-in in Indesign away from cmd+ to something not reachable on a German keyboard I want to use it even less than never