One of the cool things about long-distance, ground-based travel with the #foldingbike is that you can get up to some quite random excursions when you have some time to kill.
I am on my way back from #ecprgc25 in Greece and after arriving in Ancona, Italy by ferry, I had about four hours to kill.
On the map I saw a "Garibaldi Fortress" on a hill overlooking Ancona, which sounded pretty cool. So I went for a little ride. The fortress was definitely not in a state Garibaldi would have approved of 😅, but the cool thing was that I found an enjoyable bit of gravel to explore around Ancona in the process. I really like to explore these spaces just beyond the city, they are often very interesting assemblages of beautiful and mundane, lively and strange places.

#brompton #bromptongline #gravel #conferencetravel #staygrounded

The ECPR Standing Group on Law & Courts Bluesky account is now bridged to the Fediverse. Follow it for updates and browse posts on talks at the just concluded ECPR-GC in Thessaloniki: @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social

#ecprgc25 #ecprgc2025 #ecpr2025 #ecpr

Hey #polsci fedi crowd - anyone going to #ecpr2025 in Thessaloniki next week? If yes and working on anything urban, sustainability, digitalization, I'd love to have a coffee!

I'll be there - and traveling by train, ferry and folding bike to get there, so I also hope to entertain non political scientists on here with my most ridiculous non-flying conference travel attempt to date, probably ever 😅).

#ecprgc25 #ecpr #ecprgc2025 #staygrounded

Any recommendations on what not to miss in Thessaloniki?

(And which hashtag do we use? #ecpr2025 #ecprgc25 #ecprgc #ecpr )