Post #2848559

@europeanspodcast@mastodon.social One word: reliability. Last year I took the train from the Netherlands to the south of Spain for work. A trip that should take about 24 hours. My very first train was delayed by an hour and I ended up scrambling to rebook all my trains, booking a last-minute hotel in Paris, and finally taking 48 hours to get to my destination. A few weeks ago I took the train from Belgium to the south of Spain for work. A trip that should take about 17 hours. My train from Lyon was cancelled without warning and I ended up scrambling to rebook my trains, getting a six-hour BlaBlaCar ride, booking a last-minute hostel in Perpignan, and finally taking 34 hours to get to my destination. Honestly, I feel like an idiot for even taking the train, but I refuse to fly over these short distances because it's just ridiculous to do so.