Another one of those trips where the absence of a night train makes the whole trip fiendishly complex by train...
The München-Villach-Ljubljana-Zagreb night train is summer only
So a Düsseldorf-Lesce Bled trip in December... results in a 3 hours stop in the night in Villach
And yes, there is the daytime ICE + EC option, but that (for this trip) means 1 extra night in a hotel in Düsseldorf and a day in Slovenia lost
There is the yearly Zürich-Feldkirch-Innsbruck-Villach-Ljubljana-Zagreb service... but try picking that up from Germany - results in very long and strange routes
This is why the profitability (or not) of one line is so frustrating - thinking that way is often to the detriment of rail as a system as a whole...
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Were I to want to travel between Tourcoing (in France at the border to Belgium) to Lyon, tomorrow, where can I find the details of the only direct train there is?
Oh, and of course it's a train run by SNCF, member organisation of @CER_railways 👏
But what is going on, technically here, and what changes will it bring for Brits travelling?
A 🧵
There are essentially 2 sorts of places where you might need to prove your 💉💉 status: upon entering a country (at a border control), or at a venue once you are inside a country (at a museum or cafe for example)
And there are 2 different ways to prove that status: the old way, based on papers, certificates, or the little yellow vaccination booklets. Or using a QR code - in the EU known as a EU Digital COVID Pass
(QR code can be on paper, but the important point is it's digitally signed)
How do you rid a country of a pandemic of stupidity?
It's not that UK political and commentariat class is ideologically wrong (although could be true as well), it's that so many - especially the cabinet - come across as stupid
As a start you have to take problems *seriously*
Take *any* of the aspects of the UK's multicrisis at the moment - food supply chains, clogged ports, gas prices, petrol supply, labour shortages - the whole thing is fiendishly complex to solve
I don't know how to solve it. But hell it's serious!
This, I suppose, is what happens when the political discussion in public is so disconnected from reality that bad decisions have no practical consequences
Where a referendum has left an opposition so cowed it cannot point out practical problems
As well as the outright stupidity of the UK Government's Brexit positions just now (something we've grown used to over 5 years), there's a further headache
The *INEVITABILITY* of what comes next
A 🧵 on whether we can break the Brexit cycle...
David Frost is giving a speech Tuesday 12 October where he will outline the UK's problems with the Northern Ireland Protocol
We know what those problems are because Frost floated them for the Sunday papers
And Frost has sounded like a broken record over the summer since the UK Government's "Command Paper" - Tuesday is likely to be more of the same