feel like shit just learned as I was doing some casual rail network in other countries reading that you can go from London -> Moscow -> Beijing via connecting railways/the trans siberian railway.

  • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Because just taking a train from Norway to Sweden costs a stupid amount of money, so I'm not even going to look up how much going all the way to China costs.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Norway to Sweden

      okay but Norway is involved. I once got a pizza in Oslo and they charged me the equivalent of 75 dollars

      • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Lol yeah, apparently Oslo is one of the three most expensive cities on the planet, the others being New York and Tokyo.

        Might have changed now tho, but that was a thing like 10 years ago.

        • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          A little less than ten years ago me and a friend went over on the ferry to see an old friend who was managing a cafe. It was right around the sudden popularity of good British craft beer and we filled our bags with cans as 'heavy drinking Brits on the ferry' to smuggle them in for our friend's cafe to sell at a better price in exchange for free food and crashing in his flat above the place. It was basically the world's slowest, politest, lowest stakes Smokey & The Bandit.

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          yeah it was pretty good. real cheese, some toasting/browning from a properly hot oven