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On the rails again… #Interrail

I have a spare Interrail day left on my pass that expired today, mostly thanks to the valiant efforts of the luge athletes of #TeamDE in the Milan Winter Olympics. As it was also an own-country day, I decided to do a random day trip to a station and city I hadn’t been to before: Castelló de la Plana

Today’s Itinerary: https://moof.space/trip/2026-03-25

I’ll be doing this on a couple of Euromeds, though I did flirt with the idea of taking an Intercity out and a Euromed back, the timing was a little weird.

Unusually for Renfe in Barcelona Sants, we were checked into the platform before the train arrived, and as the train arrived from Figueres, people exited the train causing massive chaos on the platform, as people here aren’t used to that.

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J—dV 2d ago

@moof And by Atocha you mean Sants :)

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Moof! 🔜 #JetLagTheGame NL 2d ago

@redjives I do. I obviously need a cup of tea.

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Moof! 🔜 #JetLagTheGame NL 2d ago

@redjives Got one in the end…

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Sebastian Crane 🏳️‍⚧️2d ago

@moof @redjives I've been really enjoying black tea without milk recently. Something about the milk doesn't feel nice with a sore throat, but even since that's cleared up, the milk produces a slight cloying sensation for me.

It also helps avoid the entirely manufactured debate about which order to put the milk, tea and water into the cup, and feels good to this elective nearly-vegan ^^

Have a pleasant rest of your journey, Moof!

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Moof! 🔜 #JetLagTheGame NL

@seabass @redjives Milk adds a distinct taste to tea, and British tea and a lot of Indian teas have been picked and blended with the idea that you should have them with milk. It also depends on how much fat is in the milk. More fat can give a richer or more cloying flavour depending on how it’s mixed.

Some bubble tea and Indian chai brewers will even add milk powder to the milk they add to tea. And the choice of which animal (or vegetable) you milk is also impactful. I gather goat and yak milks are quite distinctive, though I’ve never tasted them.

Some people even brew the tea directly in the milk.

So, yeah, experiment with different milks if you want to try different things.