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The France-Italy office of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung approached me and asked whether I would like to present #CrossBorderRail at the big summer event of the French Green Party 21-23 August in Strasbourg. The result is a small poster series in English, French and German, explaining my project and the […]
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This summer’s #CrossBorderRail Finale tour was the first I did without using Komoot as my bike mapping tool. Read the post I wrote before the tour for the background as to why I wanted to switch. Now after having been using Mapy.com as my alternative for more than 1000km of […]
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A week ago the #CrossBorderRail 2025 finale ended, and I am writing this post back in Ravières, and this is a kind of quick stock take. The finale encompassed 25000km on 168 trains, more than 1000km on the Birdy folding bike, and a mass of experience and lessons learned that […]
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On 6th June, the #CrossBorderRail finale started – with the first part of the trip continuing until 24th June. Now, the day before the trip starts again it’s time for a quick recap of what happened so far, and what I learned from it. The map of the whole route, […]
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15 June 2022, and it is Day 2 of my very first #CrossBorderRail tour, and it is a gorgeous sunny morning in Nijmegen in Netherlands. I unfold the Birdy bike and cycle off towards the 6th border of the project at that stage, the dismantled line between Nijmegen and Kleve […]
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When in some post-lockdowns, post-Brexit, where-do-I-invest-my-political-energy moment of inspiration (or madness?) I thought of crossing every internal border of the EU you can cross by train in one journey to investigate how we better improve international rail connections, little did I know I was starting something that would be a […]
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The European Commission and the state owned railway companies are getting very excited about the idea there could be a EU masterplan for high speed rail. With that in mind, let’s do a little thought experiment. This started as a Bluesky thread, and has been lightly edited into this blog […]
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