...This is just in the nature of a PSA for anyone interested in rail travel (in Europe and beyond), for pleasure or just to get around.
There are some online resources that are nothing to do with giant corporations, but that punch way above their weight in what they offer you... specifically because they're the day-to-day expression of one person's passion for a topic that continually engages them. The Man in Seat 61 website is one of these.
If you're interested in rail even in a general way, you ought to know about Seat 61: because what Mark Smith doesn't know about the subject is probably minor enough to not need knowing. His work's as valuable for newbie rail travelers as for those of us who've been doing this kind of travel for a while. (For example, just found out via Seat 61 that a trip that I've often done with @petermorwood for business purposes, the Zurich to Munich run, is now nearly an hour shorter than it was when we last did it. Yay!)
So if you're planning a trip*, or just interested in seeing how to get around in Europe (and various other continents as well), check out The Man in Seat 61.
*Mark's especially strong on the subject of reduced-rate rail passes, so don't miss out on the pages about those.
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ok @ my european followers theres the stereotype that yall dont travel more than like half an hour away .what if u live far in like .university or college or smthin .do u just not go home for holidays ? whats ur Max Time youd spend on a bus/train to get home? bc im curently on a ten hour bus train combo and ive done this three times already this year (and thats not counting the two times i was driven up here which is 8ish hours)
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Time Travel Question 35: Ancient History XVI and Earlier
These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.
This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. Basically, I'd already moved on to human history, but I'd periodically get a pre-homin suggestion, hence the occasional random item waaay out of it's time period, rather than reopen the category.
In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).
Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.
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