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timrichards

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Travel writer living and working on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, Australia. Rail travel expert, current books on sale include Heading South and Ultimate Train Journeys: World. See my published writing at iwriter.com.au.

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timrichards, to Trains
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Another V/Line train trip today. I'm heading to Bendigo to have lunch with my brother. As you do. A bit easier now that the country train fares in Victoria Victoria have been capped at $10.60 per day.

timrichards, to random
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Not a headline you read every day.

Allegedly naked passenger forces Virgin plane to turn around on flight from Perth to Melbourne - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-28/passenger-allegedly-runs-naked-on-virgin-plane-perth-melbourne/103901778

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Bourke Street Mall, Melbourne. Can you spot the Moon in this photo?

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Booked an Interrail Pass to travel to , a hacker camp in the UK!

Getting excited! 😆 This will be the first time I use the Channel Tunnel!

timrichards,
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@blinry Those round keys are funky

andreaswiedenhoff, to sydney
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Early morning sees quite a number of services coming and going to and from 🇦🇺 Central. These services are usually worked by very nice trainsets that look familiar to the British traveller: their design is very close to the .

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@andreaswiedenhoff Good morning! Are you coming to Melbourne on this trip, Andreas?

timrichards, (edited ) to Trains
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Snacks aboard a TGV Lyria train from Zürich to Paris, photographed by me on this date in 2019. You can't escape those paprika-flavoured chips anywhere in Central Europe!

cc @diningcar

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Good read; suggests the anti-youth attitude of the Tories may backfire on them.

The pensioners’ party plays its last moth-eaten card: national service for the young - Polly Toynbee https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/27/national-service-rishi-sunak-tories-general-election

andreaswiedenhoff, to wellington
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Evening at 🇳🇿: arrival of the “Northern Explorer” from .
This undoubtedly is another one of the world’s great train stations.

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@andreaswiedenhoff @railmaps About 1000% nicer than the Auckland station!

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New at my Patreon... Planning a Europe trip, I wondered how many nations I'd never visited via plane & a trip to/from an airport? Turns out there are several:

No plane required https://www.patreon.com/posts/104763772

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Thank God for baseball. I mean it. It’s a lovely
distraction for me for many months. It might be life saving. Don’t underestimate the value of sports for some people. It’s a mental health issue.

I can’t do politics 24/7.

I chat with my mother throughout almost every game. Maybe every game.

timrichards,
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@davidtoddmccarty I should try to attend a baseball game sometime when I'm in the USA. Could be a story in that.

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@davidtoddmccarty I like the sound of that though, immersive. When I lived in Egypt I went to an Uganda vs Egypt soccer match, that was interesting. Almost more police standing guard than spectators.

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@davidtoddmccarty Is there a baseball museum somewhere? I could imagine visiting that and then seeing the game, put the two together in a travel article.

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@davidtoddmccarty Hmm good to know, thanks

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@terrygrundy @davidtoddmccarty Nice idea, thanks

timrichards, to melbourne
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More wall-to-wall sunshine! Bring it forth!

#Melbourne #MelbourneWeather

james, to random
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Dear Gmail. Please support SVG already. Come on, Gmail. It’s all your fault we can’t use it. https://www.caniemail.com/features/image-svg/

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@james What's the advantage of SVG? Haven't heard of it before.

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OH NOES!!!

I can no longer afford olive oil. What else can I use? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-25/olive-oil-cost-of-living-alternatives-/103888144

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@caity Yeah it's good stuff, but if it's expensive, canola oil does the trick. Like that time we all avoided bananas for a while when they became $$$

timrichards,
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@sister_ratched @caity Where's that from?

timrichards, to random
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Good read about the rise and fall of internet cafes. I used to update Poland regularly for Lonely Planet, and around 2010 noted a mass extinction of them.

Many had been in really prominent spots, eg main squares, that then became too expensive as the post-communism economy grew; and of course people were moving to smartphones too.
https://mastodon.social/@jimray/112514955197448705

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Want to try your hand at travel writing? Come to my workshop at St Kilda Library, Melbourne, on 27 July!

More info and bookings via the link below:

Travel Writing Workshop with Tim Richards https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1232799?

#Travel #TravelWriting #TravelWriter #StKilda #Melbourne

timrichards,
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@caity @weezmgk Must say I read a lot of travel narrative books, thoroughly enjoy them. :)

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@weezmgk I might not be around then!

timrichards, to melbourne
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Crikey. Mega!

Car crashes into Moon Dog brewpub at former Franco Cozzo store

(maybe paywalled) https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/car-crashes-into-moon-dog-brewpub-at-former-franco-cozzo-store-20240528-p5jh5a.html

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@sister_ratched All publicity is good publicity, I guess

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