Travelling on the new Drielandentrein! Tänään ajellaan uudella kolmen maan linjalla!
(Today's route / tämän päivän reitti: Luxembourg - Liège - Maastricht - Amsterdam.)
#drielandentrein #traindestroispays #dreiländerzug #maatapitkinmatkustaminen #maatapitkin #interrail2024 #noflying #stayontheground #CrossBorderRail
A little 🧵 on a week long trip through Europe
This morning early departure from Valence TGV for another work-related #noflying journey around a large swath of Europe, including #Stockholm. Estimated distance 6481 km in only 10 trains, including 2 night-trains.
Perfectly on-time, train fully booked. Actually looking forward to what should be, for the first leg, about 26 hours in trains from here.
(had to do the first 76km by car, since on Sundays we have no early TER)
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#EuropeByTrain
@tastaturgefuddel Im besten Fall häufen sich #noflying #noflyingtrip aus Angst vor Klimakrisenturbulenzen im Luftraum.
Here’s day 7 of my trip to #Scotland #Skye #OuterHebrides, it’s time to cover some ground in order to be home tomorrow. Land travel takes more time than flying but it’s also much and much more rewarding #staygrounded #noflying ⛴️🚞🚄🚌 first leg is the ferry back from #Tarbert #Harris to #Uig on #Skye.
Sooo you are probably all wondering how I am going to get to the @dariaheu Annual Event after all. The alternative is: either 48 hours and 6 different trains between Irun and Lisbon or 15 hours of a direct bus between Bordeaux and Lisbon. So, bus it is. And yes, I am car sick, it's not going to be much fun. But making points is seldom fun, alas. #noflying
Yesterday, me and my colleague took the #NightTrain to #Vienna, to join the #SIOPEN #translational research meeting.
Little under 10 hours from Utrecht.
I had to present our latest work on
#neuroblastoma. Beers to celebrate this event. 🍻
Good news as long as there is no strike:
New Brussels-Berlin night train launches to warm welcome
The first Nightjet night train from Berlin arrived in Brussels on Tuesday morning, marking a historic step in the redevelopment of the night train network linking Brussels to other major European cities.
https://www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/835844/new-brussels-berlin-night-train-launches-with-warm-welcome
Petition: Climate researcher dismissed because he didn't want to fly: Dr. #Grimalda should be allowed to continue his research! https://innn.it/klimaforscher-entlassen
I'm really puzzled that there are still institutions that expect you do a one-day trip from Toulouse to Cracow for a panel meeting 🤔 #ClimateChange #NoFlying
My reading for this #noflying trip: Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres @announcements
- Don't do "projects"! There's a better mindset, do "products"!
That was my message at the #projectmanagement conference!
Torres' book and daily short videos go in that direction: how to get your organisation to think better about discovering and delivering IT products.
Talk with the users often. Validate your assumptions, before coding anything. Find the opportunities.
Last TGV made it to Brussels on time, no incidents.
This closes the trip at almost 15 hours. I think I have a better face now than in the morning!
Thanks for accompanying me, Mastodonians! See you on Friday for the way back!
A view of Lake Maggiore from aboard the train
Mount Saint Quirico and Castle of La Rocca, in Angera, in the morning mist.
From the Eurocity 32 train, from Milan to Geneve.
Good morning, Mastodon!
It's my turn for a #CrossBorderRail and #noflying adventure. I'm going from Parma to Brussels to speak at a project management conference.
My route is Parma - Milan - Brig - Basel - Strasbourg - Brussels. 5 trains, 4 countries, plenty of possibilities that the trip takes an unexpected turn :)
First one is on time at 6:10. Let's do this!
And today’s #NoFlying #CrossBorderRail trip will have brought me 303km further, taking almost 7 hours. Thank god for high speed rail. The bulk of my travels are now slower than they were in the late 1990s or early 2000s
I’m a disorganised person who uses travel agencies because I can’t juggle trip details myself.
I want to get from Northern England to Athens in late October, without flying.
Is there a travel agency that will book this for me? It’s not a holiday, it’s my life.
Train to London
Train to Paris
Train(s)to Bari or Brindisi
Boat to Kerkyra (with a few days’ stop because my mom lives there)
Boat to Patras
Bus to Athens
So here is a nice new dillema:
I booked a 'learn how to sail' holiday in Croatia
and accidentally booked this including a flight 🤦🏼♀️
I'm an idiot.... and I didn't notice this until yesterday
Just called the Amorgos sailing school and they won't let me change it "seats have already been bought"
I am of course free not to use them but my name stays on them.
I can cancel the entire trip at 50% of fee, unclear what happens to the air chairs ....
Now what do I do?
#ClimateDiary #NoFlying
Tok toget fra Trondheim til Lisboa i regi av NTNU-jobben https://khrono.no/tok-toget-fra-trondheim-til-lisboa-i-regi-av-ntnu-jobben/794928
"European governments lost out on €34.2 billion in revenue last year due to very low levels of taxation in the aviation sector. This €34.2 billion could pay for 1,400 km of high-speed rail infrastructure – equivalent to the distance from Hamburg to Rome." https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/every-hour-european-governments-lose-out-on-e4-million-in-aviation-taxes/ #noflying
“Sleeping around” has a special meaning on #NightTrains ;) Here’s my cabin for tonight, from Zagreb to Zürich: Window can open! There’s a wash basin! & Clean bed! Electricity to charge my phone! Even some food & drinks! I’m happy & expecting sweet dreams:) 🛌 🚆 😴 #trains #TrainPride #NoFlying #TrainsNotPlanes #selfie #NLNOG
My turn to enter the #noflying for #noflyacademics!
Let me use this opportunity to share some nice pictures 😀
Here is a random landscape from my first train through southern France.
