Hib Bird
@hib-bird
Based in London after years spent in Wales, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland & Slovakia. Broadly pro-European.
Usual odd choice of image. Dual gauge works differently in Ukraine of course because it has to be gauntleted rather than just a 3rd rail, but I'm sure there's a lot of expertise they can share/pass on.
For me disappointment with Starmer started before he even got in. Hopefully it won't be only about avoiding grimmer alternatives now. @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social
It's basically this 👇 but dressed up in some pseudo-Eurocrat fluff. At least Flanagan is just straight up honest that that's what he's doing, although the majority of the people he's mocking in those queues didn't vote for it.
Budapest Keleti, which I once lived a couple of miles from. It's both an exotic destination and a gateway to more exotic destinations. The sounds and the smells. Walking up the steps and hearing the station jingle again makes me quite emotional.
A window in the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona has been changed so it now shows the transliteration of Ukraine's capital city into Catalan from Ukrainian rather than Russian.
What do they think's going to happen? Presumably trucks go past without any bother.
A game in Houston in the afternoon followed by one in Kansas City in the evening. That's some committed groundhopping by King Willem-Alexander & Queen Máxima. Have to respect. At least one Futbology badge surely.
I literally teach actual students in that building so what is this mendacious fiction passing itself off as a hot journalistic scoop?
This is a fair point. They can be moved and fair enough, but it does mean Plymouth having more security than Scotland, and it's Scotland that faces the Arctic.
My father used to tell me about going to the Gara de Nord in the 70s. It doesn't look as if it's changed much.
Former CFL Class 2000 being used for Bucharest-Suceava, a journey of over 450km! For context, the whole of Luxembourg, where these trains retired from is only 82km long.
10 years since I collected one beer for every participating country at Euro 2016
The all over advertising livery on this former SNCF X72500 is...a choice. The graffiti actually improves it.
The Romanian rail system is like a zoo of second hand rolling stock from western Europe. Former DB, SNCF, CFL and DSB represented here.
There can't be too many places with two airports stacked next to each other like this