Also as a couple of people have asked: what’s all this #Ravieres stuff I’m posting?
My partner and I got the keys to an old house we bought in Ravières, Yonne (Bourgogne) on Monday. The house was *full* of stuff. So tweets are about what we find!
The idea: to spend a few months a year. And also be able to work from here (if we’re all on Zoom all day anyway, why not?) and do it without a car…
The house is 2km from Nuits-sous-Ravières station - and about 10 hours from Berlin
And the people who used to live here ran a computer business in the 1990s
Have lots of Fatima everywhere (this one has been removed now! I’m not abandoning my atheism here…)
Had lots of plates and glasses…
And the place is liveable-in straight away, and cost €65500. For that you’d get about 1/10th of a flat in Berlin…
Anything about this slightly crazy project will be tagged #Ravieres
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Back in 2018 I travelled across Russia on the Transsiberian railway
2 conversations from that trip have been on my mind a lot these past few days
The first was on one of the long stretches - Tayshet to Krasnoyarsk or Krasnoyarsk to Tayga
There were two others in my RZD Cupe 2nd class sleeping carriage. A forestry manager from the wilds north of Ulan Ude, and a technician from Tomsk University
The Tomsk guy spoke a little German, and Yandex translate handled the rest
Hours into the trip our conversation turned semi-political. “We all have VPNs” he said
Earlier @Felyxorez pointed me to this in Le Monde about bosses of railway companies demanding "un nouveau pacte ferroviaire européen" 👇 lemonde.fr/economie/artic…
It's a summary of the main piece in Le Journal du Dimanche (no paywall if you accept ads)👇 lejdd.fr/Economie/sncf-…
First, the content
Honestly it's 🤷♂️
A load of we're green, we're the good guys, bla bla. Heard it all before. No concrete demands, no concrete plans
"Pour que le train soit plus attractif, nous nous engageons à améliorer l’expérience client : de la réservation à l’information voyageur en temps réel grâce au numérique, ainsi que pour l’offre ferroviaire internationale, y compris de nuit."
Starting at 14:00 CET the Berlin Senat is releasing the results of its night trains study at a webinar - all the details here - inc. dial in link: pro-bahn-berlin.de/dateien/presse…
2️⃣ "EU's refusal in 2020 to negotiate an SPS equivalence process" - EU made it clear all along that this was a non-starter. You cannot keep rolling this one out over and over - you stated in 2021 "Britain has just become a fully independent country again"
Dreary grey weekends in Berlin mean more wanderlust... I've now planned all the bike legs of my #CrossBorderRail trip for this summer - where there is no train, or infrastructure doesn't exist any more, I will cycle rather than take the train
Komoot is much better for bike trip planning than Google, so all the routes are listed here in Komoot 👇 komoot.de/user/189774755…
The good news: I've found a way to do Kulata 🇧🇬 - Sidirokastro 🇬🇷 by bike instead of needing a taxi!
The less good news: Suwalki 🇵🇱 - Marijampolė 🇱🇹 is a complete pain. Even bus schedules here are horrible (v early morning), and were I to cycle it's more than 80km... Do I want to risk that on a Birdy folding bike on rural lanes?