acbApr 6, 2025

Thread: my recent Interrail journey (Stockholm → Berlin → Dessau → Zürich → Trieste → Ljubljana → Vienna → Hamburg → Stockholm).

In the past two or so weeks, I took a journey around Europe by train on an Interrail pass I bought last year, seeing some sights and catching up with friends. 🧵 1/

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My trip started with the SJ sleeper train from Stockholm to Berlin, a route I have done before. This time, I was in an economy-class couchette compartment, shared with a family with two kids and another passenger. Though there also was a bistro carriage (at least within Sweden), where I had a few drinks and watched the sun setting over the countryside, until it was time to sleep. 2/
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I arrived in Berlin in the morning (for some reason, the train ended up misrouted to Spandau), made my way to Hbf, stashed my luggage, visited a few shops (Dussmann for books/CDs) and then made my way to Kreuzberg and the Berlin Synthesiser Museum. This, located up a flight of stairs behind a buzzer, is several rooms full of synthesisers, from old rarities to recent digital models, most plugged in and ready to play; admission is €12. 3/
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Among their collection are a Buchla Easel (a very analogue beast, which emulations don’t do justice to), a Soviet Polivoks (which feels and sounds flimsier than I expected; its reputation comes mostly from its rarity) an East German Vermona, a number of iconic ones (Minimoog, DX7, Korg M1, Casio CZ-1) and a few interesting new synths like the Korg Modwave.

I didn’t spend as much time at the synth museum as I would have liked, as it was time to catch a train to Dessau 4/

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In Dessau, I stayed overnight at the Bauhaus, in a former student apartment fitted out with appropriately modernistic furniture and vintage fittings. It was one of the rooms with those iconic balconies (which was unlocked, though we could use at our own risk; presumably the period railings don’t comply with modern safety standards). The bathroom was communal though modern, but nobody else was staying on the floor. The stay cost me only €65. 5/
Show threadApiaryApr 6, 2025
@acb i am jealous. I might have to drag my spouse to Dessau.
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@Apiary Do it! The rooms have double beds.
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