As night trains are the superior art of traveling, I never understood why in the last decade most train companies dismantled them.
I always suspected a mixture of pseudo-modernism ("high-speed trains are more modern"), lack of cooperation among rail operators of different countries (the European rail system has more of a patchwork than a network) and the conspiracy theory of car and air travel industries lobbying against the most convenient way to travel long distances.

Luckily, follks in Eastern European countries weren't as shortsighted as their counterparts in the other parts of Europe, and maintained their night trains. ÖBB is most active in bringing back night train connections in Europe. Turkyie and Ukraine are good on track, too!

If you want to find night train connections, check this web:

https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-list/?

"Back-on-Track is a European network to support improved European cross-border passenger train traffic and night trains." 🖤

#NightTrains #Trains #Railway #EuropeanMobility #Mobility #Travel #TravelInEurope #FutureOfMobility #EuropeTourism #Tourism #MobilityTransition #SleeperTrains #SNCF #DB #OEBB #ÖBB #NightJet #Nightline #TrenItalia #MÁV #PKP #PolRail #RENFE (just kidding, the Spanish rail company is a candidate for being the worst in Europe )

Dann, liebe Kinder, kam es 1789 zur Französischen Petition, in der die Bürgerlichen den Adel aufforderten, alle Gefangenen aus der Bastille freizulassen und die Republik einzuführen. Der Adel musste sich der Unterschriftenflut beugen und erfüllte alle Forderungen.

Seitdem gilt die Petition als das schärfste politische Schwert der Opposition und sie sollte wegen ihrer unabsehbaren Folgen nur mit äußerster Vorsicht eingesetzt werden.

🇷🇺 Putin had been instigating antisemitism in Russia long before the lynch mob stormed the airport in Dagestan’s capital Makhachkala, Aleksandar Đokić writes.

https://www.euronews.com/2023/11/08/the-kremlin-fuelled-antisemitism-at-home-then-it-blew-up

#russia #antisemitism

Gaza hospital: What video, pictures and other evidence tell us about Al Ahli hospital blast - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67144061

#ApartheidIsrael #Palestine #Gaza

« The JDAM, or joint direct attack munition, is a precision-guided air-to-surface weapon system that is part of the Israeli arsenal provided by the US. »

And :

« Israel has said it used 6,000 bombs in the first 6 days of the conflict, more than the US used in a year (…) in Afghanistan and double what the US-led coalition used against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in a month.»

#AlAhli #hospital Piecing together what happened as #Israel insists militant rocket to blame
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/18/al-ahli-arab-hospital-piecing-together-what-happened-as-israel-insists-militant-rocket-to-blame

"Wir als feministische und antifaschistische Gruppe wollen nicht mit antisemitischen Gruppen zusammenarbeiten und fordern die Leser_innen dieses Textes auf, antisemitische Äußerungen ebenfalls als Ausschlusskriterium der Zusammenarbeit festzulegen."

https://knack.news/6996