Brian Melican

Author, translator, and journalist, wrily observing* the decline of social liberalism from one of its last remaining bastions. (*drinking beer to blot out)

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Good to see @vizcomic giving my avian namesakes the increased exposure they so richly deserve.

[Slow Travel Berlin @slowberlin]

The only guide you need to one of Germany's finest cities—a local's take on Hamburg by @melican

https://t.co/8fKpCCfuyy

[Slow Travel Berlin @slowberlin]

"The large ‘S’ on a green background was an instantly recognisable brand that literally shone out into the dark skies of the dirty, coal-fired city, promising a clean, electric future."

@melican revels in the beautiful simplicity of Berlin’s S Bahn…

https://t.co/G62StDAAM4

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Moin, Kiel!

Kiel? Moin...?

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Hej då för den här gången, Göteborg. En liten (och go!) del av dig följer med som sällskap för hemresan...

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Berätta för mig att du varit ute i Göteborgs Skärgården utan att säga att du var osv.

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Skärgårdsromantik i vinterutgåvan.

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@SavLocal Or indeed on day 1,000. Just spent a week there and, by Jove, what a tricky tongue!

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Göteborg helt magisk just nu sett från Skansen i solnedgången.

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Tillbaks i Götet igen!

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Worse views to wake up to...

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Left: North Sea/Skagerrak. Right: Baltic Sea/Kattegat.

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The Lighthouses of Skagen

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(Last pic taken passing back by "Bridgy McBridgeface")

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Aalborg doing its dammed best today to make me regret never having been here previously...

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Up here in Jutland: today was a good day.

[Slow Travel Berlin @slowberlin]

Why is the U-Bahn – Untergrundbahn – called the U-Bahn when so much of it runs not just above, but indeed several storeys overground?

Find out in @melican's Ode to the Berlin U-Bahn, which traces the system's intriguing history...

@BVG_Kampagne

https://t.co/z0kRPqnfRU

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"De Zoch kütt!"

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Wollte schon immer einen Wurst-und-Käse-Laden namens Worst Case Scenario aufmachen...

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DING! Round Two (9%). Paging @Cyber_Caveman, who will be dealing with the consequences later...

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The customary "beer in the Brussels Eurostar Lounge" pic (although the lack of nuts available is slightly un-customary #fwp).