@lewd good luck!

[demoographics@wikis.world]

@lewd good luck! My recent trip has felt a bit doomed, so I hope you have a better time of it

[sobex@social.sciences.re]

@lewd Hmm, are you going through Russia ? (Getting to SE-Asia from Europe seems to require routing through some rather sketchy countries nowadays)

[meerderwoerter@climatejustice.social]

@lewd How easy or difficult was it to get visas for all the countries on the route?

[tops@im-in.space]

@lewd bon voyage !

[maartje@blahaj.social]

@lewd have a good night on the start of your journey!

[exilsarahl@chaos.social]

@lewd bon voyage

[iznogoud@mastodon.social]

@lewd O
M
G

[klara_tag@leipzig.town]

@lewd

So cool.
I wish you a smooth start!

[pierreozoux@mastodon.indie.host]

@lewd wow! You are the.most motivated!

[hrw@society.oftrolls.com]

@lewd how do you manage it without using transsiberian line?

[lewd@zug.network]

EuroCity acquired . Bonus content : a cute steam locomotive .

Next stop : Warsaw

#FOSSRail #CrossBorderRail

[hrw@society.oftrolls.com]

@lewd Right. You have to choose Russia or Iran to pass from Europe to Asia.

Hard to tell which is worse now.

[alberto_cottica@mastodon.green]

@lewd way to go! Godspeed then.

[skolima@hachyderm.io]

@lewd @jon They should be used to this - the Polish machines wouldn't sell tickets for the Rzepin - Frankfurt(Oder) part for a very long time too (though I think that was eventually fixed a few years ago). There's still pricing differences - for regional trains, it used to be much cheaper to buy the over-border addition separately than as a single ticket e.g. Zielona Góra - Frankfurt(Oder).

[jon@gruene.social]

@skolima @lewd everyone who crosses that border regularly is used to the mess. But it doesn’t make it right!

[dawid@packowski.net]

@lewd isn't it possible to through turkey to baku, and then cross the kaspian see and continue through kazahstan. i have planned to go that way with my friends to china.

[lewd@zug.network]

@dawid Yes, that's possible but boats are not trains.

[skolima@hachyderm.io]

@lewd @jon Well at least some things improve. Back before COVID, I used to take that train every weekend. Had to help multiple travellers as the conductors only spoke Polish and would fine anyone without a paper ticket. Ugh.

[jbb@social.tchncs.de]

@lewd @jon While there was rail-replacement service there last year, the driver looked at me in disbelief for trying to buy a ticket for a rail-replacement service xD

[geeeero@mastodon.social]

@lewd Epic. Thanks for taking us with you!