1/n I’m on a long train trip again! I’m almost out of data, and have a ton of work to do, but will try to share interesting updates if they arise.

Before the internet starts mansplaining trains again:
- yes, I’m aware of the existence of quiet cars,
- yes, I book my seats in advance, and in those quiet cars if available,
- yes, I know that I can book 1st class tickets and do so depending on availability and other factors.

In fact, I’ve been on my train for only 30 minutes and am already regretting paying an extra 20 € for first class. One of the passengers here is exceptionally disgusting, he’s sitting opposite of me, and it’s busy enough that I cannot really move.

#LatourOnTour #Treinleven #Trains #Travelogue

2/n cold wind at Utrecht central station, but I have oat milk coffee from AH to go, so all is good.

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3/n Train manager: "In a few minutes we will arrive in Arnhem. Special announcement to all the pickpockets in my train: please get off my train here, without anything extra."

#TreinLeven #DeutscheBahn #NS #LatourOnTour #Travelogue

4/n Of course the couple in front of me and the man behind me are yapping to each other and their phone. Consequently, I've now had Stuck In The Middle With You stuck in my head for the last 30 minutes or so.

#LatourOnTour #Treinleven #RuheBereich

5/n The guy next to me just told the phone-calling guy behind me to respect the quiet zone. I think we have an early contender for the award of Ideal Fellow Traveller today!

#DeutscheBahn #QuietZone #RuheBereich #LatourOnTour #Travelogue #Trains

6/n In a tragic turn of events, the guy next to me just lost his lead in the Ideal Fellow Traveller competition by making a phone call 🤦‍♀️

#LatourOnTour #Travelogue #Trains #QuietZone

7/n My next connecting will be in about 2 hours. Just noticed that my connecting train is delayed by 15 minutes. I only have 12 minutes for the connection after that. Will I get Deutsche-Bahned? Place your bets now.

#DeutscheBahn #Trains #LatourOnTour #Travelogue

yes, this is as inevitable as the Tax Man
51.1%
no, I still believe in miracles
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8/n One man making a conference call, two other men yapping at each other, guy next to me on his fourth phone call. Sad to report that silence is too much to ask of a 1st class quiet zone.

#LatourOnTour #QuietZone #DeutscheBahn #Trains #Travelogue

9/n Train manager: "Dames en heren, onze machinist is begonnen met het inzetten van de landing op Frankfurt Flughafen, en we zullen daar dan over vijf minuten landen."

#Treinleven #DeutscheBahn #LatourOnTour #Frankfurt #Trains

10/n My train arrived in Mannheim 8 minutes delayed. Connecting train now has a 20 minute delay, so that’s okay. Sadly not enough time for an exciting #LatourDetour (also because of more luggage than usual and massive period cramps). Hopefully it won’t get delayed by more, because I’m quite cold.

#LatourOnTour #DeutscheBahn #Mannheim #Trains

11/n I want y'all to know that the dog-owning couple who sat in front of me on my previous train, went for walkies here.

#Mannheim #LatourOnTour #Travelogue #Trains

12/n I guess you can count on SBB, because I made it on the train to Zürich!

The chairs here are a bit old and creaky, so every time someone moves, it sounds like somebody got lucky.

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#SBB #LatourOnTour #Travelogue #Trains #Zurich

@anna Cue Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams 🎶 😁

#LatourOnTourSoundtrack

@ElBeeToots You know that I never realised that either Daft Punk or Pharrell Williams was involved in that song? 😳

It's been 6.5 years, yet I still cannot think of Pharrell Williams without thinking of this.

#FeralHogs

@anna Because I know of certain genres of loud guitar music in which the vocalist employs the 'pig squeal' technique, I can make a mental approximation of feral hogs oinking 'Happy' 😅

@ElBeeToots by the way: Reply All made quite a good episode about the 30-50 feral hogs thing, if I remember correctly.

https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/reply-all/id941907967

#Podcast #ReplyAll

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@anna @ElBeeToots
(free link to the ReplyAll episode: https://podcastindex.org/podcast/320115?episode=305309494 )

And more recently, Jamie Loftus interviewed him (and as usual put a lot of context around it) in sixteenth minute (of fame): https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6895688?episode=33458633700

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A legit question from a rural American.Asher Elbein's piece on feral hogs  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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@koantig oooh thank you got sharing! @ElBeeToots