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The first Deutsche Bahning has happened.

Train was already delayed by 40 minutes because we had to take a detour due to a collision on our route (in NL). That likely means that some family somewhere is receiving terrible news today, and my heart goes out to them.

However: we're now delayed more b/c stuck in Germany because an upcoming railway crossing is faulty, so I guess this is my official first Deutsche-Bahning today. 🤷‍♀️

Current train has a 45 minute delay. Next one has a 43 minute delay. Will have 4 minutes to change trains. They will be on adjacent tracks. Might work. Still more than 2 hours to go before we get to that transfer, so I guess anything can still happen.

Next train was sufficiently delayed that I could make the connection. However: it was decided that that train would remain in Germany and not continue to Switzerland, so I had to catch another train to Switzerland, which I could not find in the db app, but which at least tells me what time I'll arrive at Basel SBB.

So... Initially, there was a second case of Deutsche Bahning that actually undid some of the NS-ing and the Deutsche Bahning experienced earlier, only to be undone by further Deutsche Bahning.

I don't know how to count anymore.

Anyway. I'm on a full train and the sun is in my eyes and everybody is talking, but at least it's warm and I found a seat.

@anna Made it onto a regional train instead of the intercity train that I had hoped to catch an hour ago. Is Cindy and not too crowded, so I’m reading papers for the next 90 minutes. 🤓

@anna @anna and as soon as I hit “send”, the guy next to me started a loud and angry phone call. 🫠

#Train #Trains #TrainTravel #Travel #Switzerland #SBB

Made my last train transfer of the day (I hope)!

Greetings from Lugano!

#Lugano #Switzerland

#Hotel #Travel #Italy #Embroidery #FibreArts

Made it to the hotel. Everything is embroidered here.

#PixelArt #Hotel #Breakfast #GoodMorning #Egg

Dr. Anna Latour Dec 4

And anything that cannot be embroidered, is covered in some kind of plastic pixel art.

@anna fantastic photo!

Steven Rieder 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 🇺🇦Dec 3

@anna prachtig!

ednl 🇪🇺Dec 3

@anna Oooo, very fancy. I'm extremely envious. Hopefully you'll have some fun outside conference rooms.

@ednl you know what’s crazy? I’m not even here for a conference. Ya girl managed to do a travel largely for fun???

@anna Woohoo!

@anna oooh childhood memories 💛

@anna you made it!

@anna
Cool! My great great great grandmother Kunigunde #Schindler spent the last decades of her life there:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Schindler-1413
Greetings from Black Forest

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shom Dec 4

@anna a train trip AND a view like that!? So envious. Enjoy!

maswan Dec 4

@anna
Lugano looks great from the water too!

I brought my packraft to a spring conference there this year.

@anna Do you at least have tea or coffee in a thermos or similar?

@funkylab @anna sadly, no. I’ve been meaning to look for a better quality thermos than I have now, so the hot liquid actually stays hot for more than an hour, but they’re all so expensive and I’m wondering if it’s worth it given how much/little I’d use it. I don’t need more stuff, that’s for sure.

@anna yeah, I totally get that.

Steven Rieder 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 🇺🇦Dec 3

@anna 😑

noplasticshower Dec 3

@anna surfing the trains! This is a fun thread.

@noplasticshower I love that framing! ❤️🌊🚅

🇺🇦🇪🇺 cweickhmann Dec 3

@anna Sounds like you're in Germany at the moment. 🧐

Ben Zanin Dec 3

@anna there is still time for someone carrying a full kilogram of yoghurt to sit next to you!!

@gnomon someone on this train is eating a lot of raw onion

@gnomon Happy to report that raw onion smell intensity seems to be reducing since leaving Freiburg im Breisgau 🧅

Ben Zanin Dec 3

@anna thank goodness, praise be to the deity of alliums

Ben Zanin Dec 3

@anna oh heck no, that is far less entertaining than yoghurt.

Je vous souhaite bon courage

@anna Welcome :) And also: if you, by any means, can afford to not let yourself be stressed about the travel itself: it helps *so* much. Hope you have a nice day, nevertheless :)

@funkylab Thanks!

Yes, for now all is good. If everything had gone according to plan, I'd have arrived at the destination station at 18h ish. I will be later now, but that's not the end of the world. A friend will pick me up from there by car, and he's flexible, so I'm not too worried :)
Also: for now I'm still quite comfy, and I have a pile of work to do, so a quiet comfy train is a good mobile office.

@anna True! But, honestly, it'd have been nice if you saw more of the alps with daylight

@funkylab Agreed, but the weather is pretty grey today and I know from experience that night time train ride through a winter landscape with the lights of villages in the valleys can also be nice, so I’m keeping my hopes up 😊

@anna do that! And to that end: I'm in the Northmost quarter of the upper Rhine plain, where I suppose your train to Switzerland might take you, and the longer I wait, the clearer it gets.

Mark Dec 3

@anna Always fun with our friends at

. Good luck today and I hope you are able to enjoy the journey.

Steven Rieder 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 🇺🇦Dec 3

@anna have a great time!

@rieder Thanks 🥰

Marijke Luttekes Dec 3

@anna Good luck! You’ll get there… eventually.

The good thing about DB is that—at least for me—it makes NS delays feel insignificant for a while.

Enjoy your trip! I’ve enjoyed watching the landscape go by from DB windows.

@mahryekuh Thanks! Yes! I jut passed by a cute cottage in the woods, where the inhabitants had decorated the surrounding trees with giant baubles :)

Leonieke Dec 3

@anna Happy travels! May the DB gods be merciful!