Travel preparation status: I forgot to activate the out of office notification. But I finally have a tent AND a backpack. There's even some chance I'll manage to pack my stuff before I have to catch the first train in the morning. Oof. 😅

There's still some time to procrastinate packing camping stuff... right? 🤔

Aaaand off we go!
Looking forward to finding out what I forgot to pack

eep! on the train

✅ Train 2/7 to EMF

Hüfe, dea Zugbegleita redt jo boarisch.

✅ Train 3/7 to EMF

Help! I think I ended up at the wrong event?

TGV - Train à Grande Verspätung?

✅ Train 4/7 to EMF

Very much on brand... The Eurostar terminal has its own border fence

✅ Train 5/7 to EMF

Aaaand a short detour with the tube before we have to catch the next train.

Thanks @vagina_museum, the "Museum of Mankind" exhibition was really funny! Now, let's get back on track.

✅ Train 6/7 to EMF

From the train I saw many puddles in the fields... I guess this year EMF stands for Extra Muddy Field?

✅ Train 7/7 to EMF

Spending some time in the Ledbury Tesco parking lot before getting a shuttle to the camp site is definitely an important part of the EMF experience. :D

So that's how the ducks were delivered to #emf2024

#emf2024 is amazing, you spend 2h putting up chairs at Stage A and everything looks different. It's a proper camp now. :O

Are the people who volunteer called "Voluntier"? 🤔
#emfcamp #emf2024

Sooo I heard the people at #emfcamp like camping? Luckily there's @hackmas taking place in August in Austria!
#emf2024

This is a test, please ignore this toot.
#emf2024 #emfcamp

Come to the entrance tent, we have the best music!
#emfcamp #emf2024

Oooohhh, the @badge has a boop button! 👀
#emf2024 #emfcamp

Found my toot!
#emfcamp #emf2024

Just helped build up some small parts of nullsector... It looks amazing this year. 👀
#emf2024 #emfcamp

I returned a big potato and won a small one!  
#emf2024 #emfcamp

Well, that was fun! Found 75 out of 87 of the gchq.net tokens today. Will try to find the remaining ones tomorrow. 👀
#emf2024 #emfcamp

86 out of 88. And I think I have an idea where the remaining 2 could be. Now I need to finish this!
#emfcamp #emf2024

87 out of 88 and second place on the leaderboard. As the sun is setting, I guess that's it. The gchq.net game took me places I otherwise wouldn't have discovered. Would definitely play again, this was great fun. :)
#emfcamp #emf2024

Hey everyone, our bus arrived!

Oh, I still have photos from #emf2024 I wanted to share. People brought sooo many funny, hacky, cool builds.
#emfcamp

Speedy tren did its job, I'm back in Europe. Now I have about 45 minutes to catch my Nightjet to Vienna. Whoop whoop
But also... How complicated can travelling by train be?
Eurostar: Yes!

Well, that's great. The NJ is here. But... It's missing half the coaches, apparently they're stuck somewhere in Germany and supposed to be added in Mannheim. At ~1:00 in the morning. Until then, they stuff everyone into one single seating coach. Argh.

We got thrown out of the train and then the same conductor asked us to get back in. Fun, fun, fun

We are moving! 👀👀👀

Morale is high. We're having good conversations in the compartment, learnt a lot about railway safety and operations and there's beer. Could be worse. :D

What's kinda funny about night trains is... Everyone I ever met there is super chill about delays and other inconveniences. Like, right now, our carriage is missing and everyone is like: "Here's a story about a rail travel I took which was a lot worse. And it was great fun!"