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"A new discovery of mine for 2023 was the #CrossBorderRail movement. It’s
mainly a project of Jon Worth who is investigating all current and former
border crossings in the EU by train and bike. His motivation, aside from the
fact that I guess he likes to explore, is to highlight obvious issues and
improvements which are needed to get more people onto trains and off of
short-haul flights. I have some experiences to share in that area myself.
Back in June I made an unambitious commitment to take no more than 10 flights
in 2023, which I didn’t actually meet having taken the 11th flight to get back
to the UK for Christmas. (I think the climate crisis is built on people making
unambitious targets and then failing to meet them anyway). Anyway, I decided to
return by train to Santiago.
I have plenty of experience taking unadvisably long overland trips. The apex of
this being driving to Mongolia in 2016 and taking the train back from Ulan Ude,
Russia to Manchester. By comparison, travelling from North Wales to Galicia
seems pretty straightforwards. However due to a combination of factors, this
trip in late 2023 had more issues than that much longer journey of 2016. Here’s
how it went."
Via Rixty Dixet.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
