Alex

Planes, trains and bicycles. F1/Urbanism too. Bit of a nerd, clearly.

[Alex @AvGeekAlex]

Being on anything with wheels here is… quite the experience!

It’s all so incomprehensibly cheap though:
75p for a 20min taxi (in a hatchback that somehow has six people in it)
20p for a bus ticket

*Working speedo and doors optional, apparently

[Alex @AvGeekAlex]

Central Asia in 14 days starts… now!

I imagine it will go questionably wrong at some point, but hopefully it’ll be fun 😅

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@justacwab @robinlovelace @DrDPMcArthur @AngusEd Seems to be based on OSM tags so runs into issues where things are mapped in a more complex way (like MMW). CyclOSM highlights streets based on speed limits but it's less useful in blanket areas (Lothian Road highlighted etc): https://t.co/pnA6w3sx6n

[Alex @AvGeekAlex]

Given the experience of entering Slovakia today, I think I’ll be having fun conversations with border guards for the next six years of my passport 🫡

[Alex @AvGeekAlex]

Plenty of twists heading home… an unplanned stay in Gdańsk/London and being ‘un-exited’ from Schengen😅

Our first flight was delayed by:
- A bird strike
- Late cargo readjustment
- Sudden assistance need
- Someone tripping on the stairs

That’s the bad luck used up for a while!

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@ElderGrizzly @paul_winginit https://t.co/4g8rfULKLz has similar options but each element is a fairly expensive add-on (10-20%).

The first one sounds quite interesting though, depending on how generous they are with their rebooking options!

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@JSS779 I’ve been planning a similar trip and have had an *experience* trying to get a Tajik e-visa. Would recommend doing that early if you’re interested in going there 😅

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@waynewykwong @adamcobb They barely finished BER itself in that time 😉

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@RantyHighwayman Cycled from the airport to centraal via the Hovenring last year (while listening to You Spin Me Round).

10/10 would recommend

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@thatbobertguy Then I get paranoid and have to check all my previous answers 😅

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@JAMESMARTlN @JSS779 She’ll see the light one day, especially with how much she loves Schiphol 😉

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@HelenTodd3 I’ll *try* to get up for the race but qualifying will definitely be watched on replay at a normal time 😅

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@AndythePandy_ It’ll be interesting to see what else can be unlocked by the XLR as well, just a shame the max range has been reduced!

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@jonk @dkMOMUS Join us! When we have our fourty minutes of sunshine a year, it can be quite pretty too 😄

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@Flying_Abi Max’s phone right now: https://t.co/tcTo7YQXII

[Max Verstappen @Max33Verstappen]

@MercedesAMGF1 @F1 @MercedesBenz @MercedesAMG should I pick up guys??

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@LivingStreetsEd @neilinglis @justacwab @AlastairDalton @EdinReporter They’re yet to be installed, although the Grosvenor Crescent one also successfully lasted several months without them. I wonder if they were monitored?

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@Samuel_Lloyds A mere £24m for a cookie cutter twin-platform 😬

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@EconomyBeyond I could have become the worst possible superhero, Ear Fire Man!

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You cycle 1000s of kilometers and the one time you fall off is at walking pace on an incredibly busy Princes Street…

Deeply embarrassing would not recommend 🙃

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@overlandertheb1 I’m hoping it won’t be a frequent occurrence…

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@jonk Is there some sort of feedback mechanism for things like that? Feels like you guys would be the perfect people to figure out what needs improving. Awesome stuff volunteering, by the way!