Last train (?) of the #TravelToHCLIM23 trip is 5 mins on #Bergen's award winning light rail #Bybanen. Not sure if this is a tram or a train or a light rail or indeed what's the difference? Buying a ticket is simple as tapping your card.
On work front, this morning I sent a paper round co-authors, started writing a report, sent some urgent emails + prepared a presentation + discussion points for the #HCLIM workshop.
Interestingly I had internet + 5G most of the way.
A morning thought:
In a car, it's difficult to do anything beyond very passive entertainment when travelling long distances, so it's hard to imagine that travel can be at all productive.
But yesterday's 5 hour train trip and evening on the ferry, was some of the most genuinely productive + creative time I've had all year.
The car/plane teaches us that travel is dead time, but the train shows it's time we can use imaginatively.
End of part 1 of #TravelToHCLIM23. It's time to go and get settled on board folks, back online in Bergen tomorrow. Farewell from #Hirtshals
And indeed. Shank's pony the last half hour to the ferry. Glad I only have a small rucksack.
Next time I'll bring a bike..
Edit: To be fair to #FjordLine: they do have a shuttlebus that connects in #Aalborg. But then I'd have missed North Jutland trains, perhaps next time..
#CrossBorderRail #CrossborderFail #TravelToHCLIM23
Well the lightning train was indeed only lightningish, but perfectly on time, so it's on to train number 3, the local service from #Aalborg to Hjørring with the magic word #Skagen down the side... (Not much sign of the famous Skagen light today, perhaps we need to get closer). This is actually the second time I will be in sneezing distance of the famous tip of #Denmark and I *still* haven't managed to visit...
Always a pleasure #Copenhagen - no ambiguity on whose side we're on.
#Ukraine
Now let's see how "Lyn"* this **lyntog to Aalborg actually is ...
#flyingLess #CrossBorderRail #TravelToHCLIM23
*(Lightning) **(lightning train - high speed rail, sort of)
Ruth Mottram