Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social media – there are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail) and Bluesky (@jonworth.eu & Custom Feed) Text updates […]
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Live Blog – Autumn 2023 Day 23, 22 Oct, Kehl – Strasbourg – Nîmes – Barcelona – Madrid
Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social media – there are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail) and Bluesky (@jonworth.eu & Custom Feed) Text updates […]
Read More#CrossBorderRail re-starts 17 October, this time also with threads on Bluesky
The #CrossBorderRail finale for 2023 starts on 17th October. I am heading first from Berlin to Slovenia, from there to Karlsruhe for the BAG Mobilität & Verkehr of the German Grüne, and then head to Spain and Portugal (to speak at the Interreg annual event in Santiago de Compostela). There […]
Read MoreThe best #CrossBorderRail lines to visit
#CrossBorderRail is a very political project – to push for better international railway connections between European countries. But one of the things that makes the project so fun is that it has taken me to some wonderful places amongst the 130 borders I have crossed in the past 12 months […]
Read MoreLive blog – Extra Day 05, 2 June – Barcelona – Béziers – Nice – Ventimiglia – Pisa – Pontedera-Casciana Terme
Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route Text updates This day was live-tooted on Mastodon, and the updates only showed here on the site on the day itself. You can still find the Mastodon thread from the day here: https://gruene.social/@jon/110473110479282665 […]
Read MoreLive blog – Extra Day 04, 31 May – Berlin – Basel – Nuits-sous-Ravières – Paris – Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg
Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route Text updates This day was live-tooted on Mastodon, and the updates only showed here on the site on the day itself. You can still find the Mastodon thread from the day here: https://gruene.social/@jon/110461253911531737 […]
Read MoreThe plan for the #CrossBorderRail extra days in May and June 2023 is ready
It has been only a matter of days since my Germany borders project concluded, and I am off again! All of the extra journeys I am about to make are mapped here. First 26-28 May I am making a 3000km journey from Berlin via Kraslice to Klagenfurt, from Klagenfurt via […]
Read MoreThe Germany borders research is done – but there are events and more trips to come!
The train journeys for the Germany borders project 2023 are now done. You can find the complete route in a Spreadsheet here, and mapped here. 67 trains, more than 60 of them using a Deutschlandticket, and more than 500km on the Birdy folding bicycle and no serious delays or mishaps. […]
Read MoreThe detailed plan to find a way past the train strike in France on 6 July
(These plans have changed even more since I first wrote this post! The post has been updated to reflect this – the update is correct as of 6 July at 18:30!) So the French train strike on Wednesday 6 July has messed up my plans. I know that my cross […]
Read MoreAltered routes and times to/from Portugal on Days 18 and 19, and plans to cope with a French train strike on Day 20
How I am going to get from Vigo (ES) to Lisboa (PT), and from Lisboa to Madrid (ES) has now changed slightly. On Day 18 – Monday 4 July – I am going to make a brief stop in Porto (to record a podcast) rather than in Coimbra, and this […]
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