This Macron calling an election is such a “I think I know best” manoeuvre.
If you’ve just suffered a defeat in the EP elections, going “oooh I’ll make you go vote again, to back me or not” comes across (to me anyway) as aloof and stupid.
Maybe pause and ask yourself why what happened did happen? Just an idea…
And another timetable failure: the Čapljina - Sarajevo train departed 4 minutes EARLIER than timetabled. Things are relaxed enough here to mean likely no one missed it, but it’s odd…
@jon In India "preponing" flights was a thing, as I discovered to my cost (despite arriving in plenty of time, ie a couple of hours). Maybe it's better now.
The nonchalance with which this was communicated, as if it was routine enough that one should have anticipated it, was quite Alice in Wonderland.
And ZFBiH really has its priorities wrong. As well as employing two people to not sell me a ticket (see earlier toot), I was told off for taking this photo of the roof of the hall of Sarajevo station (which is brutalist and quite cool!) #CrossBorderRail
there are meant to be joint border and customs controls 🇲🇪 🇷🇸 at Bijelo Polje by mid June. Check this is the case once I’m there end June!
Albania is meant to have its new railway - inc to Tirana airport - running and electrified by 2025. I’ll go check this, inc the airport, to see if that looks viable
Really struggling with my #CrossBorderRail workflow here in Sarajevo today. The wifi in the conference venue, and the cafe next door, are both too slow. And my workflow is too dependent on uploads to the cloud… I’ll eventually get the photos onto Flickr and share HD videos with the journalist who wants them.
I only got involved in railway policy advocacy work because I needed it and I lived it
And while at one level I might be of the university educated elite, I’ll literally get my hands dirty, and pitch up at a summit on a bike wearing a t-shirt. Without living this stuff on the ground it makes no sense
How do people like this Montenegro minister just want to stay at the abstract level?