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22 Oct

I follow French politics enough to roughly know what I don't know

And about Éric Zemmour I don't know how someone who's never run *anything* can at least be considered a viable candidate in the first round

*How* is that possible?

Someone like Marine Le Pen at least knows how to do basic organisation. She's run a political movement of sorts

Macron was a semi-outsider, party politically. But he'd been finance minister at least

Is the rationale with Zemmour that this is communication / culture war *alone*?

When the gaffes come (and they will come), is "hang on, it doesn't work like that?" going to stick? Or not? Are we so post-truth this isn't going to matter?

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Jon Worth

@jonworth

20 Oct

As #ZügeStattFlüge is currently up for discussion, and people are coming to me with the usual complaint "Waaaaa well trains are too expensive compared to flights!"... here's a semi-systematic response

Explained in the 🧵

Imagine 6 example cases

I am in Frankfurt 2 weeks from now, 4 weeks from now, and 6 weeks from now, and want to fly or take the train home to Berlin after a business meeting (depart after 4pm)

And same for München - back to Berlin in 2, 4 and 6 weeks

All prices are taken from DB for trains, right now

And flight prices from Kayak, right now

No discount cards used. Only direct connections

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Jon Worth

@jonworth

19 Oct

Want a cheap train from Brussels to Paris?

It sure ain't IZY!

And you better not speak German, Italian or Spanish (seriously)

Do read on in the #EUYearOfRail thread 🧵

There's a low-ish cost train service between Brussels and Paris called Thalys IZY - its own website is here 👇
izy.com/en

Services are reduced post-COVID, but it still runs...

But how do you book it?

Here's the train I want on the IZY site ✅

But presuming you might - naively - assume it's run by Thalys, you might think its trains were on the Thalys website

❌ But no, you'd be wrong - they don't show there 👇
booking.thalys.com

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Jon Worth

@jonworth

18 Oct

@albertowmazzola

Let's do a little check, shall we?

@albertowmazzola was happy to tell me the other week that Skyscanner for Rail tools exist in Europe

And @CER_railways has trumpeted the need for ticketing platforms in #EUYearOfRail and on #ConnectingEurope Express

A quick 🧵

@CER_railways

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 👏

That train is a OUIGO low cost TGV

✅ Here is is on the OUIGO site 👇
ventes.ouigo.com

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Jon Worth

@jonworth

18 Oct

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

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Jon Worth

@jonworth

15 Oct

The UK is indeed on the verge of joining the EU Digital COVID Pass - I know this from my own sources

In that regard, this Guardian piece is correct 👇
theguardian.com/travel/2021/oc…

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)

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