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Kicking off another #NotFlying round of #SwedenToWales feat a train, a night train, a morning in Malmö, a train (hello Denmark), an airport, a bus being a train (no, not Germany, still Denmark) a bus being a bus (hello Hamburg), a bargain £37 Eurostar, a bus being two buses.

Given the forecast temperatures, #HummusRoulette canned, ditto a plan to smuggle cheese into Blighty for my dad's birthday.

Unless I can think of something snappier, going with the hashtag

#SweatChildOfThine

Kicking off another #NotFlying round of #SwedenToWales feat a train, a night train, a morning in Malmö, a train (hello Denmark), an airport, a bus being a train (no, not Germany, still Denmark) a bus being a bus (hello Hamburg), a bargain £37 Eurostar, a bus being two buses.

Given the forecast temperatures, #HummusRoulette canned, ditto a plan to smuggle cheese into Blighty for my dad's birthday.

Unless I can think of something snappier, going with the hashtag

#SweatChildOfThine

Kicking off another #NotFlying round of #SwedenToWales feat a train, a night train, a morning in Malmö, a train (hello Denmark), an airport, a bus being a train (no, not Germany, still Denmark) a bus being a bus (hello Hamburg), a bargain £37 Eurostar, a bus being two buses.

Given the forecast temperatures, #HummusRoulette canned, ditto a plan to smuggle cheese into Blighty for my dad's birthday.

Unless I can think of something snappier, going with the hashtag

#SweatChildOfThine

After a Night of Flight-Free Adventure (travel inspiration as fundraiser for the charity Flight Free UK), #WalesToSweden chuffed (electrically) on to Harwich and now takes a day ferry to Hoek van Holland.
Day ferries and night trains complement each other really well. You have time to sleep, work, or window stare on at least one.
#NotFlying

After a Night of Flight-Free Adventure (travel inspiration as fundraiser for the charity Flight Free UK), #WalesToSweden chuffed (electrically) on to Harwich and now takes a day ferry to Hoek van Holland.
Day ferries and night trains complement each other really well. You have time to sleep, work, or window stare on at least one.
#NotFlying

After a Night of Flight-Free Adventure (travel inspiration as fundraiser for the charity Flight Free UK), #WalesToSweden chuffed (electrically) on to Harwich and now takes a day ferry to Hoek van Holland.
Day ferries and night trains complement each other really well. You have time to sleep, work, or window stare on at least one.
#NotFlying

The next round of #NotFlying #WalesToSweden has kicked off with its first pit stop at Bara, the cafe bringing Wales to Peckham.
(h/t @NationCymru for the tip off back when it opened.)

The next round of #NotFlying #WalesToSweden has kicked off with its first pit stop at Bara, the cafe bringing Wales to Peckham.
(h/t @NationCymru for the tip off back when it opened.)

The next round of #NotFlying #WalesToSweden has kicked off with its first pit stop at Bara, the cafe bringing Wales to Peckham.
(h/t @NationCymru for the tip off back when it opened.)

The next round of #NotFlying #WalesToSweden has kicked off with its first pit stop at Bara, the cafe bringing Wales to Peckham.
(h/t @NationCymru for the tip off back when it opened.)

The next round of #NotFlying #WalesToSweden has kicked off with its first pit stop at Bara, the cafe bringing Wales to Peckham.
(h/t @NationCymru for the tip off back when it opened.)

I hate the smell of airports* in the morning**.
Even ignoring aviation's climate impacts, why do we tolerate that much damage to local air quality?
* Specifically today, CPH Kastrup, but let's face it they're all equally bad.
** No better, pm.
#GetMeToTheFish
#NotFlying

I hate the smell of airports* in the morning**.
Even ignoring aviation's climate impacts, why do we tolerate that much damage to local air quality?
* Specifically today, CPH Kastrup, but let's face it they're all equally bad.
** No better, pm.
#GetMeToTheFish
#NotFlying

I hate the smell of airports* in the morning**.
Even ignoring aviation's climate impacts, why do we tolerate that much damage to local air quality?
* Specifically today, CPH Kastrup, but let's face it they're all equally bad.
** No better, pm.
#GetMeToTheFish
#NotFlying

This round of hummus roulette is going to be over very quickly.
(a) not much hummus in the fridge when I cleared out before leaving home. And only three carrots.
(b) just found out by SMS that there won't be a restaurant car on my Snälltåg to Malmö this evening.

(The rules of #HummusRoulette are elsewhere in my posts. Basically morphed from evading airport security to avoiding food poisoning as my #NotFlying became total.)

This round of hummus roulette is going to be over very quickly.
(a) not much hummus in the fridge when I cleared out before leaving home. And only three carrots.
(b) just found out by SMS that there won't be a restaurant car on my Snälltåg to Malmö this evening.

(The rules of #HummusRoulette are elsewhere in my posts. Basically morphed from evading airport security to avoiding food poisoning as my #NotFlying became total.)

This round of hummus roulette is going to be over very quickly.
(a) not much hummus in the fridge when I cleared out before leaving home. And only three carrots.
(b) just found out by SMS that there won't be a restaurant car on my Snälltåg to Malmö this evening.

(The rules of #HummusRoulette are elsewhere in my posts. Basically morphed from evading airport security to avoiding food poisoning as my #NotFlying became total.)

This round of hummus roulette is going to be over very quickly.
(a) not much hummus in the fridge when I cleared out before leaving home. And only three carrots.
(b) just found out by SMS that there won't be a restaurant car on my Snälltåg to Malmö this evening.

(The rules of #HummusRoulette are elsewhere in my posts. Basically morphed from evading airport security to avoiding food poisoning as my #NotFlying became total.)

Setting off at lunchtime for another round of #NotFlying #SwedenToWales

Money saving the priority this time, with day (£30) and night (£35) trains, a Flixbus (£20) through Denmark and a (free) short ferry hop. Then posh Eurostar Plus for under £50.

En route, there'll be #HummusRoulette but the culinary highlight is purportedly Germany's finest fish and chips. Where, you ask? Not saying. Yet.

Follow #GetMeToTheFish (on time) to find out.

#EuropeanRail

Setting off at lunchtime for another round of #NotFlying #SwedenToWales

Money saving the priority this time, with day (£30) and night (£35) trains, a Flixbus (£20) through Denmark and a (free) short ferry hop. Then posh Eurostar Plus for under £50.

En route, there'll be #HummusRoulette but the culinary highlight is purportedly Germany's finest fish and chips. Where, you ask? Not saying. Yet.

Follow #GetMeToTheFish (on time) to find out.

#EuropeanRail

Setting off at lunchtime for another round of #NotFlying #SwedenToWales

Money saving the priority this time, with day (£30) and night (£35) trains, a Flixbus (£20) through Denmark and a (free) short ferry hop. Then posh Eurostar Plus for under £50.

En route, there'll be #HummusRoulette but the culinary highlight is purportedly Germany's finest fish and chips. Where, you ask? Not saying. Yet.

Follow #GetMeToTheFish (on time) to find out.

#EuropeanRail

Setting off at lunchtime for another round of #NotFlying #SwedenToWales

Money saving the priority this time, with day (£30) and night (£35) trains, a Flixbus (£20) through Denmark and a (free) short ferry hop. Then posh Eurostar Plus for under £50.

En route, there'll be #HummusRoulette but the culinary highlight is purportedly Germany's finest fish and chips. Where, you ask? Not saying. Yet.

Follow #GetMeToTheFish (on time) to find out.

#EuropeanRail

Off #NotFlying to Wales tomorrow, so last chance for a snowy cycle ride.

Off #NotFlying to Wales tomorrow, so last chance for a snowy cycle ride.

Off #NotFlying to Wales tomorrow, so last chance for a snowy cycle ride.

Off #NotFlying to Wales tomorrow, so last chance for a snowy cycle ride.

Reading between the lines, it sounds like #EuropeanSleeper are about to go public with info that @maartje revealed a month or so back.
https://blahaj.social/@maartje/115713380865965977
Their new Berlin–Paris route will call at a "destination in northern Germany" which can surely only be Hamburg (not necessarily Hbf).
If confirmed, that transforms train connections between Scandinavia and the whole of NW Europe (jnc Britain).
Potentially Stockholm to Paris in 21 hours, or to London in about 24.
#EuropeanRail #NotFlying

Reading between the lines, it sounds like #EuropeanSleeper are about to go public with info that @maartje revealed a month or so back.
https://blahaj.social/@maartje/115713380865965977
Their new Berlin–Paris route will call at a "destination in northern Germany" which can surely only be Hamburg (not necessarily Hbf).
If confirmed, that transforms train connections between Scandinavia and the whole of NW Europe (jnc Britain).
Potentially Stockholm to Paris in 21 hours, or to London in about 24.
#EuropeanRail #NotFlying

Reading between the lines, it sounds like #EuropeanSleeper are about to go public with info that @maartje revealed a month or so back.
https://blahaj.social/@maartje/115713380865965977
Their new Berlin–Paris route will call at a "destination in northern Germany" which can surely only be Hamburg (not necessarily Hbf).
If confirmed, that transforms train connections between Scandinavia and the whole of NW Europe (jnc Britain).
Potentially Stockholm to Paris in 21 hours, or to London in about 24.
#EuropeanRail #NotFlying

Reading between the lines, it sounds like #EuropeanSleeper are about to go public with info that @maartje revealed a month or so back.
https://blahaj.social/@maartje/115713380865965977
Their new Berlin–Paris route will call at a "destination in northern Germany" which can surely only be Hamburg (not necessarily Hbf).
If confirmed, that transforms train connections between Scandinavia and the whole of NW Europe (jnc Britain).
Potentially Stockholm to Paris in 21 hours, or to London in about 24.
#EuropeanRail #NotFlying

Reading between the lines, it sounds like #EuropeanSleeper are about to go public with info that @maartje revealed a month or so back.
https://blahaj.social/@maartje/115713380865965977
Their new Berlin–Paris route will call at a "destination in northern Germany" which can surely only be Hamburg (not necessarily Hbf).
If confirmed, that transforms train connections between Scandinavia and the whole of NW Europe (jnc Britain).
Potentially Stockholm to Paris in 21 hours, or to London in about 24.
#EuropeanRail #NotFlying

Here's the (wind permitting) zero carbon route from England to France.
#SailLink #NotFlying #SailCycleCERN

Here's the (wind permitting) zero carbon route from England to France.
#SailLink #NotFlying #SailCycleCERN

Here's the (wind permitting) zero carbon route from England to France.
#SailLink #NotFlying #SailCycleCERN

Here's the (wind permitting) zero carbon route from England to France.
#SailLink #NotFlying #SailCycleCERN

Here's the (wind permitting) zero carbon route from England to France.
#SailLink #NotFlying #SailCycleCERN

@geraint
Despite #NotFlying, i would love a trip in an A380. And statistically that likely means a Doha stop.
So when I wrote boring, I mistyped envy-inducing.

@geraint
Despite #NotFlying, i would love a trip in an A380. And statistically that likely means a Doha stop.
So when I wrote boring, I mistyped envy-inducing.

@geraint
Despite #NotFlying, i would love a trip in an A380. And statistically that likely means a Doha stop.
So when I wrote boring, I mistyped envy-inducing.

Taxing air travel is unfair and makes it unaffordable, say airline companies who, er, don't drop their prices when the right wing government in #Sweden completely abolishes the passenger tax.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/stockholm/flygskatten-tas-bort-da-blir-resor-fran-arlanda-billigare-eller
#NotFlying #FlyingLess #AirPassengerDuty #Flygskatt

Taxing air travel is unfair and makes it unaffordable, say airline companies who, er, don't drop their prices when the right wing government in #Sweden completely abolishes the passenger tax.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/stockholm/flygskatten-tas-bort-da-blir-resor-fran-arlanda-billigare-eller
#NotFlying #FlyingLess #AirPassengerDuty #Flygskatt

Taxing air travel is unfair and makes it unaffordable, say airline companies who, er, don't drop their prices when the right wing government in #Sweden completely abolishes the passenger tax.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/stockholm/flygskatten-tas-bort-da-blir-resor-fran-arlanda-billigare-eller
#NotFlying #FlyingLess #AirPassengerDuty #Flygskatt

Here endeth my THINGS TO SAY. If you're still curious about how to cross Germany when lots of trains get disrupted, feel free to ask.
Oh, one last thing. If you suffer GWR trains on a regular basis, YES they really are well in the running for worst in Europe.
Worst seats. Worst lighting. Worst cringe-inducingly English cutglass pronunciation of Tswinnnndon and Cardiff Tsennntral in the recorded announcements.
Croeso nol! It's good to be home.
#WalesToSweden #NotFlying

Here endeth my THINGS TO SAY. If you're still curious about how to cross Germany when lots of trains get disrupted, feel free to ask.
Oh, one last thing. If you suffer GWR trains on a regular basis, YES they really are well in the running for worst in Europe.
Worst seats. Worst lighting. Worst cringe-inducingly English cutglass pronunciation of Tswinnnndon and Cardiff Tsennntral in the recorded announcements.
Croeso nol! It's good to be home.
#WalesToSweden #NotFlying

On my last #SwedenToWales train, London to Cardiff. Two days of enjoyable travel with a few bits of unexpected excitement. Looking at you, Deutsche Bahn.
As an out and proud #NotFlying #EuropeanRail traveller, I now have IMPORTANT THINGS TO SAY. Some of which may improve your day, and one of which could save your life.
(Am I selling this too hard?)

On my last #SwedenToWales train, London to Cardiff. Two days of enjoyable travel with a few bits of unexpected excitement. Looking at you, Deutsche Bahn.
As an out and proud #NotFlying #EuropeanRail traveller, I now have IMPORTANT THINGS TO SAY. Some of which may improve your day, and one of which could save your life.
(Am I selling this too hard?)

On my last #SwedenToWales train, London to Cardiff. Two days of enjoyable travel with a few bits of unexpected excitement. Looking at you, Deutsche Bahn.
As an out and proud #NotFlying #EuropeanRail traveller, I now have IMPORTANT THINGS TO SAY. Some of which may improve your day, and one of which could save your life.
(Am I selling this too hard?)

On my last #SwedenToWales train, London to Cardiff. Two days of enjoyable travel with a few bits of unexpected excitement. Looking at you, Deutsche Bahn.
As an out and proud #NotFlying #EuropeanRail traveller, I now have IMPORTANT THINGS TO SAY. Some of which may improve your day, and one of which could save your life.
(Am I selling this too hard?)

On my last #SwedenToWales train, London to Cardiff. Two days of enjoyable travel with a few bits of unexpected excitement. Looking at you, Deutsche Bahn.
As an out and proud #NotFlying #EuropeanRail traveller, I now have IMPORTANT THINGS TO SAY. Some of which may improve your day, and one of which could save your life.
(Am I selling this too hard?)

It's a while* since I worked as a professional typesetter.

But this Rorschach test in the wall art on the Stena Line ferry from Gothenburg to Kiel is catnip for a smut for brains like me.

What the fruck?

#SwedenToWales #NotFlying

* decades