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Where is the Mathias Rust of today? Would be glorious if some daredevil would repeat his stunt*. Ideally on the same day, Border Guards Day, or some other suitable day, like Putler’s birthday.
*) Nah, I am not serious, most likely they would be shot down immediately this time.
@nemeciii This time the authorities luckily apparently caught the ship quickly, with its pants down, so to say. Hopefully the end result will be the confiscation of the ship and its cargo, and long prison terms for her officers.
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Some more pics from this trip.
Finished entering my July 2004 #Interrail on https://viaduct.world . This trip* I did with my son who was 13 at the time.
Unlike my other Interrail trips, for this one we used a flight for one leg: We started by flying from Helsinki to the Köln-Bonn Airport. When going back home we did use surface transport, though.
Some of the train lines we used in France no longer have passenger traffic, so I was not able to enter all journeys* accurately. Meaning, the line between Clermont-Ferrand and Ussel with a branch to Mont-Dore. But I think viaduct.world allows you to enter a journey as a sequence of geographic points instead of a sequence of stations, so maybe I'll do that if I feel anal-retentive enough. (Haha, you can bet I now take it as a challenge and will do it.)
There might be other inaccuracies, too. For instance, it might be that in Sweden the København–Stockholm train back then ran via Nyköping and not via Katrineholm and Flen. Will have to check my Cook's for June 2004, to see if it has information about that. And yes, I do want to get such details as correct as possible.
We did spend lots of nights at hotels but it is fun how I almost don't remember anything about those hotels at all. For instance, I was a bit surprised to notice that we spent several nights in Paris, but I can't recall where.
Some interesting things we visited during the trip were the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park, and Aigulle du Midi in Chamonix.
*) Here I use the Interrail terminology where a "trip" consists of a sequence of "journeys". Sadly, viaduct.world uses the opposite terminology.
All I want for Christmas is for it to be quick and not too awkward.
You will be visited by three spirits.
You will be visited by three spirits
You will be visited by three spirits
Some people want to filter out toots about politics, especially US. I would want to filter out toots about Firefox and Mozilla drama. I couldn’t care less about those things. I am a boring person using Apple devices. I use Safari.
RE: https://masto.ai/@hackaday/115729194173892105
OMG! Who else recalls the days when HP's (non-HP-UX) minicomputers and their HP-UX workstations used HP-IB (practically the same as GPIB, I think?) to connect external disks, at a glorious 1 MB/s, I think it was? Those stackable connectors were kinda cool.
The evolution of data cabling is amazing. Just some 40 years ago, thick and very unwieldy cables like those in the picture were used to transport measly megabytes per second. Now much thinner cables reach gigabytes per second easily. What are the main technological advances that have enabled this?
What do people gain by posting obviously fake exaggerated reviews of restaurants? What is the business plan? Do they ask the place to pay them afterwards? “Give me $10 or I will remove my review”. What is your theory?
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Actually, I think what happened was that the train in the other direction (EC 393) was delayed one hour or so, and we would get our driver from that train. So we had to wait for that train, and then for the driver to have their lunch break.
And... we are standing in Padborg without a train driver. They will arrive after a while and this train will continue around 13:00, they said. Oh well, will take an IC at 12:21 from here to Fredericia and another one to Copenhagen. Booked a later train from Malmö to Stockholm instead, luckily there were seats available. I am overnighting in Stockholm and had no plans to do anything special there in the evening anyway so no big deal.
Not as bad as some years ago when there was "unexpected" wintry weather in February, no electricity in the wires, and the train was delayed almost 10 hours into Copenhagen.
Pic: Three old CFL diesels (not Nohabs, as I first thought) in Padborg.
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Love it.
Wasch mich.
Bye then Hamburg, for now. Possibly my last journey in one of these old DB IC1 carriages lent to DSB for the København–Hamburg route before DSB gets all their new Talgo sets into use.
I think I heard some people boarding speaking Swiss German, and if they arrived had on the Nightjet from Zürich and Basel, it arrived in time today, too, when they were able to continue their journey on this train. Also the Nightjet from Wien arrived in time, some ten minutes earlier and on the same track from which this one left even, so that was a very nice connection. Personally, I would not dare to make a whole day’s travel depend on such a tight connection, though. But, as there is no mandatory reservation on these trains, you take the train you can catch in time. At least if you have a flexible enough ticket, like #Interrail. The next train to Copenhagen is in two hours.
Have a first class six person compartment to myself for now. That is nice. When fully occupied, in hot weather, this type of compartment is not that nice.
Said hello to a very cute rescue dog on the platform. Possibly a mix of corgie and kooikerhondje?
And note that I took it as a challenge to manage without going through Paris and without mandatory reservations. Well, except for the night train, of course.
I did also not attach any name tags to my luggage in France. (I would if I had remembered to take suitable tags with me.) I cannot recommend following this example though. You might be fined. At least on TGVs.
But in the new timetable that has started today (Happy New Year everyone!), it is possible to do it and arrive before midnight. At least on weekdays. But as mentioned, it includes changing between stations in Paris.
Even using high-speed trains as much as possible, it couldn’t necessarily have been done in just daytime, I think. (It can, now, see my reply.) Then I would have had to go through Paris, which is a bit of a pain. You have to change between stations using the Métro. But then I would have arrived in Hamburg in the wee hours of the night.