After discussions with @ruthpadel and @stevegreen39 I've run the rule over the COVID apps / vaccine certification situation for those vaccinated in ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ and Northern Ireland travelling to ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น

Quick ๐Ÿงต
Italian residents can prove their vaccination status using the IO app

iOS apps.apple.com/it/app/io/id15โ€ฆ
๐Ÿค– play.google.com/store/apps/detโ€ฆ

But you need a SPID or CIE number to use it, and non-residents do not have that... Image
What about Italy's verifier app - that's the app a restaurant or museum will use to let you enter (or not) from 9 August

That's VerificaC19

iOS apps.apple.com/us/app/verificโ€ฆ
๐Ÿค– play.google.com/store/apps/detโ€ฆ
VerificaC19 can scan ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ and Northern Ireland QR codes, but shows them as INVALID โ›”๏ธ

Likewise if you put your NHS QR code into another EU country's app first (like ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท TousAntiCovid for example) and scan that with VerificaC19 is *also* shows as INVALID
I have scanned my German EU Digital COVID Pass with VerificaC19 and it shows as VALID โœ… - which is exactly as it should be
Meanwhile for those vaccinated in ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ and Northern Ireland there are work-arounds to get a EU Digital COVID Pass from pharmacies in ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท & ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช, I can see no way to get something like that to work in ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น as you would need a SPID or CIE number
The devil is going to be in the detail here...

Will Italy let you in with a NHS proof of vaccination? The answer to that is YES, but you (for now) still have to quarantine 5 days
Will - say - a restaurant let you in if they use VerificaC19 and it shows INVALID โ›”๏ธ - that's going to depend on the discretion of the restaurant or the employee...
As ever if you've found a solution here, or see things differently, do let me know.

And, as ever, ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง joining the ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ Digital COVID Pass system would be best of all... but ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ politics!

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6 Aug
Right

Armed with my EU Digital COVID Pass, I am going on holiday on 7 August and will not be on Twitter

So here is a *complete* explainer thread about COVID passes and QR codes for travel, especially for those travelling from ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง to ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฎ, before I go!

๐Ÿงต
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ Digital COVID Pass scheme (that works in ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฎ) is a QR code based system to demonstrate your vaccination status

The code looks like this and - importantly - it does not matter HOW you show it. On paper, on a phone, laser etched into wood - it's your call! Image
For those ๐Ÿ’‰๐Ÿ’‰ in ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ and Northern Ireland there is a similar system (๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ has not been launched yet, will be similar)

A QR code demonstrates your vaccination status - example below

But ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ and Northern Ireland, and ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ systems are not fully compatible

But there ARE workarounds Image
Read 22 tweets
6 Aug
OK, we now have clarity about the issues with NHS ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ QR codes again (incorrectly) showing INVALID โŒ in ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท TAC Verif app this morning

On iOS upgrading TAC Verif to 1.7.0 (latest version) fixed it - showed VALID โœ… again

On ๐Ÿค– v 1.6.2 (latest version) it worked all along
But there *is* a separate issue with TAC Verif on ๐Ÿค–... that's connected to language!

@cormacflynn sent me - INVALID codes being shown as VALID if the Android phone language is set to English! ๐Ÿคฏ

More detail about the issue: broken-by-design.fr/posts/tacv-vulโ€ฆ
I've now checked this with @Etienne_Sheff and we can confirm that *even if* the phone language is not set to English, ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ NHS QR codes *still* show as VALID - as they should

In other words: the problem @X_Cli_Public identifies DOES NOT impact the ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ NHS QR code verification!
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6 Aug
A question for the rail nerds @vorortanleiter @Lenny_du_Nord @TrainTracksEU... and sorry, it's about Poland, the country whose rail systems I never understand

I am vaguely planning a trip to Krakรณw, end of September

DB gives me this - can book a ticket for a seat, not for a bed Image
International Bahn gives me this, if I click "Preis ermitteln", and ร–BB can't give me a price *either* ImageImage
If I then go day by day until ร–BB *can* give me a price for the EuroNight, the first that works is... 10 September

Which is 5 weeks from now

A pretty odd time horizon if ever I saw one! Image
Read 4 tweets
4 Aug
OK, so the challenge is Kรถln - Canet de Mar by train

Here's how to do it - a ๐Ÿงต

(sorry Rรผdiger - alles ist auf englisch - hoffentlich OK, ist meine Muttersprache, und ich erreiche mehr Leute!)
First, let's start at the end.

Where is Canet de Mar?

It's north along the coast from Barcelona on the Rodalies R1 commuter line (bottom right) Image
Integration of suburban rail into Spanish timetables is awful, but this site has the timetables for the Rodalies lines in the Barcelona area
rodalies.gencat.cat/en/horaris/

Latest departure: 22:54, arrives Canet de Mar at 23:56
Read 11 tweets
2 Aug
Yay!

Let's all ๐ŸŽ‰ that we've spent โ‚ฌ140m renovating the Karawanken tunnel ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น ๐Ÿ›ค ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ...

... but then run just 5 passenger trains through it each way each day ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ (and 1 of those is seasonal)

railwaygazette.com/infrastructureโ€ฆ
Villach - Rosenbach on the Austrian side has a Taktfahrplan (trains pretty much every hour)
It's a little messier on the Slovenian side, but there's pretty much a train every hour Jesenice-Ljubljana as well
Read 5 tweets
28 Jul
๐Ÿคฌ

As if this was not all messed up already, ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Corona-Warn-App v 2.6.1 has messed this up even more

For those vaccinated in ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ and Northern Ireland travelling to ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช read ๐Ÿงต

If going anywhere else, follow the original thread ๐Ÿ‘‡
This comes thanks to a discussion with @legumjus
@i_x_s, and a tweet from @hodadr

The prerequisites: letter from NHS ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ or Northern Ireland confirming vaccination status, with QR code on it, and Corona-Warn-App latest version (2.6.1 on iOS)
Up until today's new Corona-Warn-App update, if you imported a NHS QR code into the app it just displayed it, and did not do any validation

For that you needed the *separate* CovPassCheck App (which is only in ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช app stores - bit of a pain, but I diverge)
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