Jocelyn<p><a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/TheGuardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheGuardian</span></a>: "Timetables, tricky tickets and high prices: the problems with <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/European" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>European</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/crossborderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crossborderRail</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>travel</span></a>" (citing extensively <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://gruene.social/@jon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jon</span></a></span>)</p><p>"For a whole raft of reasons – inadequate <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infrastructure</span></a>, unwilling operators, incompatible systems, incomprehensible timetabling and (last but not least) impossibly complicated <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/ticketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ticketing</span></a> – long <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/rail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rail</span></a> journeys across <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> are all too often a pastime rather than a practical travel alternative."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/train" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>train</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/trains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trains</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/08/timetables-tickets-prices-european-cross-border-rail-travel" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2025/aug</span><span class="invisible">/08/timetables-tickets-prices-european-cross-border-rail-travel</span></a></p>