Jon WorthHere we go again!
#CrossBorderRail Extra Day 04
Heading to Basel SBB first, then onwards to Paris via Nuits-sous-Ravières and then onto a night train to Latour du Carol
Here’s today’s intro video
https://urbanists.video/w/sTWxEETdNaCbdR2jTRsHcM
PeerTube
First trip with the new (secondhand) Birdy Green - that also has different panniers
There was a little glitch with the front brake this morning (I’d accidentally dislodged a brake pad) so I had to pedal manically to Südkreuz
The massive rucksack is getting dropped off in Nuits-sous-Ravières today 😊
SNCF!
Let's build high speed lines all over!
Also SNCF!
Let's put ridiculously long dwell times at our stations!
TGV INOUI 2239 I am taking later
Do I understand it that you cannot buy tickets online for Rodalies Catalunya? There are no sales in the app, and no sales on the Generalitat de Catalunya or the Renfe sites
And I wonder what there is in Latour de Carol-Entveitg (or La Tor de Querol-Enveig as Rodalies calls it) - because as it’s in France will there be a machine there?
Anyway as the timetable is so damned bad I have 2 hours there tomorrow morning to figure it out :-)
Moof! 🔜 #JetLagTheGame NL@jon you can buy tickets on the Rodalies app. The app will tell you that you need to print them out at a station, but I can say that the QR code for the season tickets works fine, though there are only a handful of gates that are enabled to read QR codes.
@moof does a regular ticket have a QR code on it? Or do you get a code to use at a ticket machine?
@moof just checked. No tickets in the Rodalies app here (iOS, German app store). Is there some extra ticketing app?
@jon my bad, it’s the Renfe Cercanias app. Mentally, I conflate the two.
@jon @Rierol oh, that’s annoying. On the one hand, I’m wondering why now, on the other it seems a classic case of Renfe being a Spanish bureaucracy (cf trying to get interrail reservations).
I would offer to prepurchase one for you, but frankly, I’m not sure it makes much sense for me to do so.
I also recently watched a YouTube video where Simply Railway had to do a taxi section from La Tour de Querol to Puigcerdà, despite the train physically running that route, due to some strange combination of union rules and SNCF/RENFE snafu, so that might be a reason. https://youtu.be/CMrwEELH0V0
@moof @Rierol FWIW Puigcerda - BCN *also* can't be bought in the app.
I will manage as I have time in Latour, and might even cycle to Puigcerdà anyway (only 4km). I am simply interested in how easy (or not) these things are!
And yes I’m aware of that problem Simply Railway had (he's a friend of mine - he was staying at my place last week!)