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Software engineer, retired. Loves trains. Anti-fascist. Atheist. Feminist. Disillusioned by the open source "community".

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The Number 10 cat appears! Wants to get in. Nobody opens the door!?

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And some rude people exit and don’t let the cat in. I am appalled and shocked.

Now it sitting on the windowsill.

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Nett hier? Offenburg, Baden-Württemberg.

Pleasant small city to overnight in when travelling from Paris towards Hamburg and the Echte Norden. Very quiet in the night, was nice to hear the birds sing when falling asleep. Relatively inexpensive Ibis Styles hotel (although I don’t see what the “styles” refers to in this case) (not in pic).

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The trains seems to become quite full in 1st class later in the journey so I bought reservations after all, while still available.

Sorry, SNCF and Alstom, but travelling in 1st class in an ICE is so much more pleasant than in 1st class in a double-decker TGV. Much more space. Germans complaining about DB don’t know how much worse it could be.

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When after joining ICE 206 in Offenburg I noticed that it will become quite crowded I quickly reserved seats and grabbed what seemed to be the last available seat pair, facing seats with table in coach 10 (same carriage as the restaurant, convenient).

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… and when I kindly asked them to lower the volume and the parent complied, now the younger one is screaming LAUTER, LAUTER, LASS MICH! Sigh.

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Sigh. A parent and two kids, maybe 4 and 6 years, sit across the aisle. At first I thought they were very pleasant children. But now each is watching a separate programme on their tablet. Without headphones.

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Today has been a very TGV-dominated travel day. Bordeaux–Paris and Paris–Offenburg. Expensive reservations but 300 km/h for hundreds of kilometres.

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This is probably no news to people used to travelling through Paris, but the walk from Montparnasse station to Metro line 4 (to get to Paris Est) was very long. But well signposted so not a problem. Metro was crowded but not ridiculously so (between 16 and 17).

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1435 → 1668 mm. Travelling to Donostia/San Sebastián for overnighting and then tomorrow into France.

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Good evening San Sebastián. Checked in to our one-star hotel which I really can’t find anything wrong with. Not sure how star ratings are defined. 90€ for a night, room with balcony, capsule coffee maker, very clean. Good value for money. Hotel Zaragoza Plaza.

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Moritz_Kleine, to Switzerland French
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Finito le vacanze! --> --> -->

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@Moritz_Kleine Last time I took the train to Brig there, it left from the “trains to Italy” track, though. So not really accurate any longer and potentially misleading.

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TIL that the Madrid Metro uses the gauge 1445 mm. Seriously, huh?

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Happiness. I can now reveal that I was stupid and left my iPad in the bus from Toledo to Madrid two weeks ago (on a Saturday). I followed it in Find My and saw that it returned to Toledo and stayed there. I went there the following day, but of course the ticket office wasn’t open on Sundays and even if I saw it was some metres away I couldn’t get it... I eventually got a reply from that they do have it there and I can fetch it on a weekday so here I am now and yes I got it back. Whew.

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By the time Alsa replied the iPad battery was of course dead so I couldn’t be sure in the meantime that it was still in Toledo (and not sent to Madrid). Otherwise I could have picked it up already the following Monday.

In general Alsa didn’t reply to any of my specific follow-up questions in English so not really good service from them.

Lesson learnt: Be careful, always check for belongings when you leave a bus or train…

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Even though I put the iPad in Lost Mode, and it clearly said “This iPad is lost. Please call me” with my number, they didn’t bother. Oh well, can’t expect too much. Bloody tourists not speaking the glorious language of Cervantes leaving their stuff on our buses. (Sorry, I am being mean.)

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The good thing is I did not have to pay anything. In Finland bus companies probably hand items found in buses to some commercial third party lost item handler that charges an exorbitant fee for their services.

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If was really clever, it would notice that you are in bus/train/etc and ping your nearby devices/ items frequently once you stop, to be able to tell you right away “dude, you left your iPad/hat/bag in the bus, go back now and fetch it”.

Hey , feel free to implement this.

It did tell me now that I left the iPad, but too late. We were already hundreds of metres away, in the metro station, and it took like five minutes to go back and by that time the bus had already left.

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I dislike Elon Musk and I understand the problems caused to astronomy by a large number of low earth orbit satellites. But still, please people, before you share this story about “Starlink precipitation” that is doing the rounds, be a bit critical. I am not at all sure that such a term is actually used in the astronomical community. My guess is that it’s just this one guy that came up with it for lols in a post.

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The public transport ticket machines in have a better UX than the ones in .

In Porto they asked whether you have a Portuguese tax number or not, and they used the weird word “title” instead of the simple to understand word “ticket”. Also, here you can with one payment buy several travel cards with the same tickets loaded onto each card.

But sure, ideal is London-style contactless payment system with daily fee capping . Instead of a separate travel card for each city you visit.

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Is it so that if you tap “cash and balance” on an ATM they will charge you extra for the balance inquiry? I am very distrusting about that company and always choose “other” and then just “cash withdrawal”.

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@partim Because they are everywhere. Like very close to restaurants that for some reason (easier tax avoidance?) don’t take cards.

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Lisbon Airbnb confirmed, a bit nerve wracking, why did we leave it to the last minute…

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I wished Слава Україні! to some people, hope they were Russian.

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Mmm, olen liberaali. Hyväksyn näitä laskiaispulliksi. Vaikkei edes ole laskiainen.

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(The DeepL automatic translation to English is completely wrong. This is a joke about Shrove Tuesday buns, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semla.)

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