Ok. I’ve finally found a benefit of #Railteam

My DB BahnComfort gets me into the frequent traveller lounge at Strasbourg. And this is *grand*!

Starting at 13:55 - TGV to Frankfurt (Main) Hbf. Then ICE onwards to Berlin ImageImageImageImage
Departures board. And the new glass facade of the station from within the old building it covers ImageImageImage
Sublime and ridiculous. A OUIGO through the halls of the Salon Grand Voyageur at Strasbourg Image
More of the Salon Grand Voyageur at Strasbourg ImageImageImageImage

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2 Nov
🇬🇧 finally legally joined EU Digital COVID Certificate (EU DCC) scheme on Thursday last week, but there is still confusion as to what this means for people travelling from 🇬🇧 to 🇪🇺 (and 16 other countries in the scheme) and vice versa

This 🧵 explains what changed and what to do
⚠️ IMPORTANT ⚠️
The EU Digital COVID Certificate can only prove you are vaccinated. It has no bearing on what travel restrictions may or may not be imposed on someone travelling from or to a given country - so check before you travel!
🚨 BEAR IN MIND 🚨
There might be other ways to prove you are vaccinated *other than* the EU Digital COVID Certificate, and what works *to enter* a country might differ from what happens to prove your vaccine status *once you're in* - to enter a restaurant or museum for example
Read 17 tweets
1 Nov
Another Jon-doesn't-understand-French-trains thought...

There are 8 TGVs each way a day, Paris-Mulhouse. 4 of these go further to Zürich HB, via Basel SBB.

But why not extend the Mulhouse TGVs to Basel SBB? Image
Mulhouse Ville to Basel SBB is just 22 minutes by regional train (TER). The fastest TGV manages it in just 18 minutes...

As loads of Deutsche Bahn ICEs, and SBB trains to all over Switzerland serve Basel, surely this would be a useful addition - for very little extra effort! ImageImage
And while we're at it...

There are 2 direct TGVs each day from Paris Est to Colmar, via Strasbourg. Image
Read 6 tweets
26 Oct
The biggest problem with 🛤 in 🇫🇷?

SNCF's and the regions' attitude to the 🚙

Read the 🧵 - it'll make sense Image
The whole approach to rail in 🇫🇷 is that - outside Île-de-France, and a couple of tiny pockets around Lyon, Strasbourg and Marseille - the 🚆 is a complement to the 🚗, not an *ALTERNATIVE* to it
This leads - in long distance rail travel - to abominations like Lorraine TGV, Aix-en-Provence TGV and Haute-Picardie TGV

These stations - nicknamed beetroot stations - are basically massive car parks, with no regular trains and just a 🚌 to the nearest town
Read 15 tweets
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?
Read 5 tweets
21 Oct
OK, so here's the idea for #ZugGegenFlug in Germany

Send two passengers on each of 5 routes (BER-MUC, BER-FRA, BER-Bonn, HAM-FRA, HAM-MUC), one on a train, one on a plane - and see who manages it fastest

Explained in the blog post 👇
jonworth.eu/zuggegenflug-a…
The idea is essentially a German version of today's @seatsixtyone vs. @SimonCalder race in the UK today

Were there enough interest (and finance) we could add extra routes - either within Germany (Düsseldorf-München?) or to neighbouring countries too
Read 4 tweets
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
Read 16 tweets

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