Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 31 - 4 May - Rimini - Bologna - Milano - Lugano - Basel - Strasbourg
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Damn I’m tired of the car-dominated society
Get to my hotel, edge of Strasbourg
30 car parking spaces
Nowhere to safely attach a bike
The reception guy was friendly. Address your complaint to management! he said. I will indeed!
@jon Haha...
FWIW...in the Netherlands we often visit vacation parks and they will ask us for our car information...when we helpfully inform them we arrive by bike, they say, they don't need anything for that, we can just bring our bikes to the holiday home.
But it is interesting that the assumption even here, is that one arrives by car in these (admittedly rural) locations.
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@jon it's a folding bike. Surely you fold it up and take it into the hotel room. Hell I take my full size non folding bike into my hotel room where ever possible.
@quixoticgeek @jon Or annoy them by asking to park it in the secure baggage room? I mean, you're a paying guest, it's your property, it needs secure storage ...
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@jon it's a folding bike. Surely you fold it up and take it into the hotel room. Hell I take my full size non folding bike into my hotel room where ever possible.
@quixoticgeek that’s what I did. But given I need to leave at 6am leaving it locked outside would have been preferable!
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@peterbrown it was friendly. I suppose!
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@quixoticgeek that’s what I did. But given I need to leave at 6am leaving it locked outside would have been preferable!
@jon I refuse to lock my bike up outside. It's my luggage, we wouldn't accept people having to lock suitcases outside. So who bikes. I've been ok in about 90% of the hotels I stay in.
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“You could email us to tell us you’re coming by bike!” the guy said
Are you going to ask car drivers that, I said, gesturing to the car parking lot
@jon meanwhile https://www.premierinn.com/gb/en/why/bike-friendly.html show how it can be done
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Damn that Hormuz closure is pushing things to the limit! 🤯
Don’t worry, I’m sure plans are already afoot to move that decimal point…
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@jon Haha...
FWIW...in the Netherlands we often visit vacation parks and they will ask us for our car information...when we helpfully inform them we arrive by bike, they say, they don't need anything for that, we can just bring our bikes to the holiday home.
But it is interesting that the assumption even here, is that one arrives by car in these (admittedly rural) locations.
@danbrotherston @jon unlike the recycling centre where (at least in my municipality which is one of the 10 biggest cities in the supposedly bike-friendly Netherlands) you can only enter by car (no walk-ins, no bike-ins and, although the municipality offers free removal of bulk at the doorstep, there are some garbage categories like paint and chemicals where trees no alternative).
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@jon I refuse to lock my bike up outside. It's my luggage, we wouldn't accept people having to lock suitcases outside. So who bikes. I've been ok in about 90% of the hotels I stay in.
@quixoticgeek Sure, that's also OK, but outside parking is handy *as well*
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Damn that Hormuz closure is pushing things to the limit! 🤯
@jon "You're gonna need a bigger sign".
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RS4 (87460)
20:05 Offenburg - Strasbourg 20:34Distance: 28.7km
Average speed: 59km/h6 stops:
Appenweier
Legelshurst
Kork
Kehl
Krimmeri-Meinau
StrasbourgThis train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#12/48.530490/7.850715
Here's today's #CrossBorderRail video, summarising what I learned taking the new Régiolis service. It's a BIG step forward, much better than the diesel trains it replaces https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/7FcqQDVUvhJmUk6pSifNvd
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@quixoticgeek Sure, that's also OK, but outside parking is handy *as well*
@jon as long as they don't require it as the only option. I was at a best western in Germany where they insisted my bike must be locked up outside. Then I asked them to cancel the reservation, and they relented.
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Here's today's #CrossBorderRail video, summarising what I learned taking the new Régiolis service. It's a BIG step forward, much better than the diesel trains it replaces https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/7FcqQDVUvhJmUk6pSifNvd
@jon Thank you for the video
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@notsoloud @jon @mkoek second that
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