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Sep 21 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
OK, so Nuits-sous-Ravières (Bourgogne, France) to Herceg Novi (Montenegro) at the end of next week is fixed!

No flying of course!

So here’s how it’ll go…
Day 1

Nuits-sous-Ravieres - Dijon Ville
Dijon Ville - Strasbourg
Strasbourg - Appenweier
Appenweier - Karlsruhe Hbf
Karlsruhe Hbf - Stuttgart Hbf
Stuttgart Hbf - Villach Hbf

(all trains)

Night in Villach
Day 2

Villach Hbf - Zagreb Glavni Kolod (train)
Zagreb - Dubrovnik (bus)

Night in Dubrovik
Day 3

Dubrovnik - Herceg Novi (bus)
… then work

Night in Herceg Novi

Day 4

Work all day

Night in Herceg Novi

Day 5

Work morning…
Then Herceg Novi - Dubrovnik (bus)
Dubrovnik - Split (bus)

Night in Split
Day 6

Split - Zagreb Glavni Kolod (train)
Zagreb Glavni Kolod - (night train departs)

Day 7

- Zürich HB (night train arrives)
Zürich HB - Bern
Bern - La Chaux-de-Fonds
La Chaux-de-Fonds - Besançon-Viotte
Besançon-Viotte - Dijon Ville
Dijon Ville - Nuits-sous-Ravieres
This is perhaps the most extreme lengths I have ever gone to so as to avoid flying… but it’s going to be a lot of fun as well!

It’ll all be tweeted on the tag #CrossBorderRail

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I really do wonder how much (little?) we’re learned from COVID

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#CrossBorderRail
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OK, so I am going to use the channel I know - Twitter - to help me address something I’ve no idea about, namely whether I should write a book

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What do I not know?

Should I write a book? If people are suggesting it, perhaps I should. But maybe they are more confident in this than I am?

Were I to write a book, how am I possibly going to finance the time such a massive undertaking would require? Who publishes this?
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