[kreuzberger]

I don't know whether that is a fact, but the in-law siblings were fucked up as recently as yesterday, trying to get from Ulm to Brenner. The Austrian train simply left from Munich East without them and a fair few other onward passengers. They will have had the passenger manifest, thanks to integrated ticketing.

Germans will complain about everything and the Bahn is now the preferred subject of their ire...while complaining the lack of border controls which delay so many trains and cause a domino-effect with connections.

Personally, I am reasonably satisfied with the service. 600 km from here to Bavaria in barely four hours for less than fifty euros? That is most agreeable. And, if there is an hour's delay, you will get at least half that back in compo, which will fund a fine schnizel and a couple of pints.

[Boiler]

Mmm, schnitzel...

[Youngian]

While searching for some more info on this FT paywall story, came across this innovative wheeze by the treasury, confiscate cryptocurrency from crooks and flog it off to mugs. Plenty of them in the US to off load it so maybe that’s what Reeves’s planning with Trump. Bloody hope so, why would markets trust a government that takes cryptocurrency seriously?

Rachel Reeves is eyeing up a £5bn pre-Budget windfall as the government considers selling off seized cryptocurrency to plug a hole in the public finances.

The Home Office is reportedly working with police forces to offload at least £5bn worth of bitcoin and other currencies taken from criminals. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 92402.html