Dr. Anna LatourGood morning and greetings from Lugano! I'm travelling back to NL today. Follow thread for hopefully not too many updates 🙃
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Lugano train station has a coffee bar with a model railway stapled to the ceiling!
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We are stalled in the middle of nowhere and the train people also don't know why 🥳
People behind me are baffled by the concept of a Quiet Zone. People in front of me have two incredibly smelly dogs.
Turns out the people behind me are also baffled by the concept of cups of coffee coming in different sizes. Ridiculous that one would ask. Utterly outrageous. Obviously they want the largest one.
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To be fair: I can be a size nazi. Whenever people ask me about which size I want, I ask things like "how many mLs is a Large?" because otherwise it doesn't mean much to me. Anyway, all of this to say that I probably shouldn't judge other people for their eccentric approach to assessing coffee cup sizes 🤷♀️
Anyway: arriving in Freiburg (Breisgau) now, with only 5 minutes delay.
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Turns out the people behind me actually wanted white coffee, not black, so now that has to be sorted out with the waiter. They are drinking it now, tho. The man is a devoted slurper who also does the post-swallow "aaaaaaaah".
Also we have 8 minutes delay now.
The dogs are leaving! 🥳
To her credit, the woman behind me shushes the man behind me every time he opens his
Loud Mouth.
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We’re again stalled for no apparent reason. Is this a railway crossing for lizards?
Marcus Müller@anna yes! (ok, actually it's for salamander and other amphibia, especially toads, who are worse at climbing but still migrate based on weather; but I'll agree, as a lizard I'd also assume it's OK if I took this passageway. Let's not be classist here, in the taxonomic sense)
@funkylab *Giggles*
@anna I've got family that works in helping corps plan, get approval for, execute and evaluate large-scale construction projects in terms of preservation, where they sometimes need to take special precautions when disrupting biotopes (as here? though I'll have to admit, don't know how amphibians thrive in gravel) or build and kickstart artificial biotopes (as in: you're building a gravel pit for a railway and are pumping off the water from wetlands ? Need to make a salamander refuge nearby!).1/2
@anna she'll love your lizardmander signage photo :)