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Live blog – Day 01, 3 May – Oldenburg – Puttgarden – Hamburg
Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route Text updates This day was live-tooted on Mastodon, and the updates only showed here on the site on the day itself. You can still find the Mastodon thread from the day here: https://gruene.social/@jon/110302866366886352 […]
Read MoreLive blog – Day 00, 2 May – Berlin – Kiel – Oldenburg
Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route Text updates This day was live-tooted on Mastodon, and the updates only showed here on the site on the day itself. You can still find the Mastodon thread from the day here: https://gruene.social/@jon/110297559218045093 […]
Read MoreSaturday 13 May – #CrossBorderRail goes to the DB Museum Nürnberg and there’s a new event with local activists in Bamberg
It’s taken a bit of planning to get the events on 13 May right, but now everything is set – come and discuss and learn about international railways and transport politics in Nürnberg and in Bamberg! At 15:00 on Saturday 13 May I will visit the DB Museum Nürnberg, and […]
Read MoreThe Deutschlandticket – when is a regional train not a regional train?
The reason I am doing my #CrossBorderRail all the Germany borders project in May 2023 is to test the new Deutschlandticket, the 49 Euro flat rate public transport ticket that will start that month. It is the permanent successor to the temporary 9 Euro Ticket available for three months in the […]
Read More#CrossBorderRail 2023 – repeat the postcard marathon?
#CrossBorderRail in 2022 comprised 40 main route days, and a few extra days from Berlin to the Poland and Czechia borders – and each and every day of the project I wrote two real postcards. One each day went to the European Commissioner for Transport, Adina Vălean, and one went […]
Read MoreAutumn press coverage of the #CrossBorderRail project
Guest on #RailNatter with Gareth Dennis – 4 Jan 2023 Han har krydset alle EU’s grænser i tog i 2022. Nu er han mest af alt bare sur Information – 3 Jan 2023 – Mathias Sonne Aktivisten Jon Worth har i 2022 kørt Europa tyndt og krydset alle europæiske […]
Read MoreEvent: presentation of the first conclusions of the #CrossBorderRail Project – Berlin, 29 August
With just one more day to go before I finally stop travelling to the internal borders of the European Union by train, I am pleased to be able to announce the first event where I will present the preliminary conclusions of the project so far. This event will happen on […]
Read MoreThe postcard marathon
It was a nice idea. Get myself out of the digital-only communication means on my blog and on Twitter, and go back to old and friendly forms of travel writing – postcards! But not any old postcards… Self-printed postcards, 2 for each day of the #CrossBorderRail project, home made and […]
Read MoreFurther press coverage of the #CrossBorderRail project – South East loop, and general analysis
(Not all of these stories necessarily concern the South East loop of the project in particular – but they were published during the time I was on the rails for that loop!) Journalist Jon Worth gaat uitdaging aan: in 40 dagen alle Europese grenzen passeren met de trein OVPro […]
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