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4 Jun, 10 tweets, 6 min read
So, for anyone nuts enough to try, I now think I know how to do Berlin-Belgrade by 🚅, during the easing of COVID restrictions...

Good news: you can do it for €48,19 single when I need to go (not a typo!) but if you want a bed in the night train it gets horribly costly!

🧵
The CHEAP but not very comfortable route

Berlin-Budapest overnight train, but in a seat (no sleeping car because of COVID)
Then Budapest-Subotica-Novi Sad by train
Novi Sad-Belgrade by bus

Trip time: 27hrs
€48,19 single Image
The COMFORTABLE but expensive route

Berlin-Vienna by NightJet, single compartment sleeping car
Then Vienna-Budapest-Subotica-Novi Sad by train
Novi Sad-Belgrade by bus

Trip time: 27hrs
€238,09 single Image
The ALPINE route

Berlin-München-Bregenz train
Bregenz-Zagreb night train (single compartment)
Zagreb-Belgrade train
(change Innsbruck on return instead)

No buses 🎉

Trip time: 30hrs
€225,05 single Image
Options ruled out as unworkable

- going via Zürich instead of Bregenz (longer and costlier)
- using the Zagreb-Prague portion of Split-Prague RegioJet train (timetables a mess, v costly)
- go via PL and pick up Warsaw-Budapest train (unknown if it'll run)
What about COVID restrictions?

Germany's ÄA has guides:
🇦🇹 auswaertiges-amt.de/de/aussenpolit…
🇵🇱 auswaertiges-amt.de/de/aussenpolit…
🇨🇿 auswaertiges-amt.de/de/aussenpolit…
🇸🇰 auswaertiges-amt.de/de/aussenpolit…
🇸🇮 auswaertiges-amt.de/de/aussenpolit…
🇭🇷 auswaertiges-amt.de/de/aussenpolit…
🇭🇺 auswaertiges-amt.de/de/aussenpolit…
🇷🇸 auswaertiges-amt.de/de/aussenpolit…
All are fine for transit, and I will need a PCR test to enter Serbia, that I will get before departing Berlin
Now can I persuade the client in Belgrade to pay that amount? We'll see 😉 And based on what they say I choose a route... go to Belgrade via Bregenz, and back via Budapest maybe?
And the battle for better information - on ticketing and timetables - for train travel in Europe goes on!
Thanks for help getting this far @maxfras @seatsixtyone @eliasvandeun @arekmakarenko @mrak @Fabian_24trains @PaliparanDotCom @CarfreeNetwork @VerkehrtPodcast @ayranundspeck @simonschre @hiddenEurope !

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A client in Belgrade 🇷🇸 is pushing me to actually attend their event in person at the end of June...

I'll write about the whole effort to book this at some point, but just one part is so ridiculous it deserves a 🧵 of its own

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Here's the connection from DB's website
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Something is *wrong* with this 9th term of the European Parliament?

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To those saying the EU is too weak or divided to do anything about the Belarus regime... let’s stop and ask: what could the EU do?

A quick 🧵
The EU could impose further sanctions on Lukashenko and his allies

Morally sound. Impact probably minimal. Not going to force him out, as Russia still backs him
Impose a set of wider sanctions on Belarus overall

This is more messy. It’ll hurt ordinary people - might that help them rise up to overthrow the regime? Looks unlikely
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22 May
I am not sure this is #COVID connected (perhaps people don't need their cars?) but there seem to be a lot of abandoned cars on Berlin streets...

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19 May
There are so many biases in the way we discuss transport policy

I'll list a few of them in this 🧵

Most of these relate to rail (my own bias!) so far...

Do add more in @ - replies!
The shiny-new-tech bias

What Tim Dunn alludes to here. It looks shiny and cool, so people fall for it. In this case a regular tram would do better than this...

The I-used-it-and-it-was-fine bias

Pretty much everyone who's not French likes SNCF, as they've been on a TGV whizzing Paris to Marseille. Try getting a regional train between small towns and you will have a different view! Image
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