@sheepnik I tend to find whilst travelling that everywhere in the world has its own distinct process and protocol for using public transport, and everywhere believes its particular setup is so uniquely and perfectly logical that it will never need to be explained.
@purplepadma@sheepnik Oh yes. The worst is when you have to go into some random shop, a newsagent or tobacconist or whatever, and ask for a particular ticket. I can't do that!
Once, I think it was in Prague (this is years ago, they may have changed since), I walked a long long way to get to a ticket machine because I couldn't deal with going into a shop to buy one near my hotel.
@purplepadma@RolloTreadway@sheepnik I liked the old 10p a day unlimited travel on all buses in my county...
It might have been 50p, but it was a trivial amount, so everyone used the bus, but privatisation saw the end to that...
I had a lot of trouble taking a local train in Campania once, until I realised that all the locals did was go up to a ticket counter and say 1 or 2 or whatever, and the guy would hand over however many flat rate tickets.
@RolloTreadway@epistatacadam@sheepnik When I first moved to London I was confused by flat rate bus fares because in the provinces we had to state our destination and were charged by length of journey
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