paid 80 happily from that sleeper seat (230 for average joes would have been the price)

this website is a great source for trips by train

i'm dutch, we have the best train network in the entire world

but it's expensive as shit

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Trains are the worst of both world as you cant stop when you want to unless youre vancleef https://youtu.be/o1DcFhaCCwI

all went downhill when they privatised the shit

i stll have small dream of conquering the trans-siberia line from end to end

but daamn the tickets cost

they're going back to government owned though

beijing to moscow and from there to france train trip would be fucking amazeballs

buuut doshhhhh

It wont get better as they will retain the same dipshits who let it get bad. Privatized or public it doesnt matter if the people there dont care and hate thier job but refuse to quit

GroenLinks baby

they always advertise with "only 5% of all trains are late!" and shit but then don't conveniently mention that 15 minutes is the threshold they used

majority of connections are 5 minutes apart or so

so often you enter the station a minute or two late and have to run across multiple platforms so you can watch your train leave

I really liked taking public transport when I was visiting Stockholm

always on time and relatively cheap

hell i would have connections for cheaper trans-sib train too these days.. i just realised

i need to reach out for that shit tho

16 days of train travel tho

just the transsib and then the moscow > france (or berlin or or or ) added 7 days +-

i'd like to go amsterdam>moscow>beijing>shanghai sometime

ooh yeah true you could add shanghai to that too

just switch trains there

yeah plus it's a direct high-speed connection between beijing and shanghai

and obviously when nkorea becomes freekorea

iirc it's a 4 hour ride or so

you can take that route there and skip chinkland pretty much

poor germans

i mean i cant care less about seeing "distractions" but the train journey itself would be probly nice

DB rolling in their graves and btfoing the whole country

Would it?youre in a very small cabin fir 16 days

i mean private lockable cabin (like it trust its lock anyway....)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypjP7rTc-b4

this is the amount of comfyness I expect on my next train trip

@johnfrum and shit ton of people with life stories, a lot of scenery you have never seen, (hopefully by then elon_musk_internet_services.wifi) and ofc the feeling of journey

Suppose, I like to get to destinations, the travel can be in a dark shell fired from a giant cannon for all I care

sure but if you aim for that its just easier to take the day and fly to beijing/moscow