@jon yes, better for those actually living there of course 🙂
And "beliebt" - Merkur Clickbait

@jon as feared: https://www.merkur.de/wirtschaft/enttaeuschung-fuer-deutsche-touristen-zugverbindung-zu-beliebtem-urlaubsort-wird-2025-eingestellt-93557213.html

@jon I'll be all right, can cope with the bus, the trip to Villach isn't the exciting part

@jon Yes, that's exactly the idea. Read about it in Jaroslav Rudiš' book.

@jon I live just north of the Alps and have been to Italy, drumroll... once, for work, with a day tagged on in Rome. Shameful really...

@jon So you recommend the Italian side over the Slovenian side?

@jon I'm thinking of making the trip and finally seeing Venice for an evening/morning along the way in the off-season

@stefanlindbohm Great news!

@jon we wanted to get from Aachen to Maastricht yesterday and the reverse today. Absolute mess, especially with information when things aren't running, short notice cancellation, ticketing in general and especially with children. Yesterday my son and I took the bus, today a relative rescued us from Heerlen to get to where we needed to be. Train driver for our train at Heerlen was pissed too, that his train was cancelled. He said the old system of two trains and 1hr frequency worked better 🤷‍♂️

@jon we also have two "Flügelbahnhöfe", could be handy