Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 32 - 5 May - Strasbourg - Rumelange - Kirchberg - Wiltz - Libramont - Bruxelles

[timothyroes@mastodon.social]

@jon A ride in that tram is what that side of Luxembourg (city) feels like. Extremely clean, sophisticated music choice, exuding that money-is-no-object vibe, ... yet lacking somewhat in personality, like it's detached from history

[jon@gruene.social]

@TimothyRoes right. Exactly that.

[trison@social.tchncs.de]

@jon Ich befasse mich hin und wieder mal mit Luxemburgisch und habe dadurch Ende 2022 Kontakt um Luxemburger Linguisten Jerome Lulling geknüpft, mit dem ich bis heute in recht gutem Austausch stehe. Immer dann, wenn ich in Luxemburg bin, gerauche ich Luxemburgisch, sofern möglich und switche auf Deutsch, sobald ich an meine Grenzen stoße.

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@jon as someone who's studied German, and is trying to learn Dutch, spending any time in Luxembourg utterly fucks my language centres.

[simonschre@zug.network]

@jon I didn't find those seats very lux(urious). My butt hurt when I sat on them longer than a short ride lol

[szbalint@mastodon.social]

@jon like dutch?

[happydisciple@mendeddrum.org]

@jon Mix in Kiwi for extra fun. “It’s wichtig as, bro!”

(Also: When RTL entered the Dutch TV market with RTL-Véronique as “A Luxembourg TV channel honest *hem* *hem*” they’d have something like 1h of programming in Lëtzebuergesch per day (yay Hei Elei Kuck Elei), which was really confusing. “It _sounds_ like Dutch, but I cannot understand a word of it, am I having a stroke? Is the TV?”)

[happydisciple@mendeddrum.org]

@jon Are they made by FIAT?

[maha@bahn.social]

@jon That‘s surprising! Since Euskotrain is operating internationally by design.

[maha@bahn.social]

@jon I see!

[corentin@masto.bike]

@jon Looks like it is (once again) a weird SNCF Connect bug on some morning departures: it works for all the other trains of the day, and it does work if you click on "direct trains only".

[matschlegel@troet.cafe]

@jon What a pitty

[jsl@hachyderm.io]

@jon This language clearly had a stroke. Which is no surprise as its speakers have the benefit of French vineyards and German portion sizes.

[jon@gruene.social]

@simonschre Yes! They’re rock hard!

[jon@gruene.social]

@happydisciple CAF!

[jon@gruene.social]

@corentin aaasgghhhhhhh. Having the data but not being able to show it is even worse!

[jon@gruene.social]

@matschlegel this one was always likely hopeless. This is why it was the last LU-FR one I went to!

[sprintercity@zug.network]

@jon The more special I find this since Luxembourgish is not an official language of the European Union.

[happydisciple@mendeddrum.org]

@jon I don’t think there’s a bible version that opens with “Caf lux” though…

[jon@gruene.social]

After 75 minutes being grilled by the Court of Auditors for a report they’re writing about railways, I’m on my way again. Next: Wiltz

And this - as ever - is unpaid. Everyone else the Court will speak to has a job to allow them time for this. But as I’m self employed it’s just me, me giving my time. It’s nice to be asked of course!