i'm on a train

also, i'm going to be in montréal in six weeks or so for my bachelor party. we're going to the hockey game. where should we go for beers/dinner? i used to know places, but that was, um, fourteen years ago.

"I'm in the store in the toilet paper aisle... Yes... That's right... Yeah. Toilet paper... It's right in front of me... Yeah. that's what I said."

mookie i can recommend you about a billion great restaurants as that's my job... could you be more specific?

What a time to live!

when i was at mcgill in days of yore i found a restaurant i loved that i'm guessing was near the intersection of st-denis and rachele. of course i don't remember its name or anything. anyway, i'm open to your suggestions...

Damn, now I want to go there.

anyway LSR is where i take people from out of town, it never fails to please. price is totally reasonable, it's great for big groups, nice friendly atmosphere, terrific food.

I'm on a train. And I'm also blogging about it, so sue me. Have crossed into North Carolina heading north to DC.

Nj transit is a lot fancier than I remember it being!

You know, two of the most difficult times in my life were on trains. Not because of the trainrides themselves, but the circumstances of my life. I can even remember a third time on a train that wasn't pleasant, either. I'm kindof afraid of riding on trains at this point. Bad vibe-ers.

t did u get one of the double deckers? those are the best esp compared with the terrible old brown seat pieces of shit

Yeah, double decker! I have only been on the brown ugly ones before! This is like LIRR!

Yo, Newark is hella depressing!

yeah :-/ tbh the ne corridor line is not the most beautiful train ride in the 'traditional' sense but if ur into postindustrial blight the first 20-30 minutes are great as u go through newark, elizabeth, rahway, etc

Now moving into prettyland. I remember visiting someone in metuchen once and it being mad pretty.

Oh hay I am in metuchen now!

what line is mountain station on? my boss lives there (in so. orange) and it is so so pretty down by there

tho the stops between there and newark are all kind of meh

also yeah new double decker nj transit trains = the business

finally home! Max, how do you make that trip every day?

i bring a book

also commuter trains are express = 55 minute trip instead of 85 minute trip

northeast corridor 4 lyfe baby

would that be like some kind-of aspie street gang? they name each of their gangs by the sections of the nj transit train map?

hi dere!

where are you goin?

london (from glasgow)

you're making me want to read some agatha christie!

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berwick

so nice

the idea of Surmounter living in rural Northumberland just struck me, it is a rum and somewhat hilarious notion

jim wtf, no trollo, she woke up on her own and we've still not spoken

and why would that be

purest deepest embarrasment

maybe she considers the first move already made and is waiting for reciprocal encouragment

fall asleep on her shoulder

Whip it out dude

i'm on a train

and i'm itchy

should i watch boardwalk empire SO1E02

where are you going?

Can't advise on Boardwalk Empire, haven't watched it yet...but you're on a train, why not?

toronto

i'm on a train

but are you ion a train

isnt it ionic

how was your bachelor party

commuter rail boston to providence smells like feet

taking up two seats to myself on a mostly full train but tbh i'm a tall guy and i can't sit up straight if i don't angle to the side

i'm on a train

why is it so hot

xp the bachelor party was grebt and did not even warrant the sideways look the cute canadian customs lady gave me -- no strip clubs etc were involved

This is bonkers

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/1/15/1358251987256/Stockholm-train-crash-010.jpg

Cleaner injured after 'driving stolen train into building' in Stockholm
Swedish police say woman drove commuter train a mile before it crashed into apartment block

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/15/cleaner-injured-train-building-stockholm

I'm on a train.

Dear menz on the train: put your fucking legs together, your dicks are not entitled to more space than I am.

I can't complain.

that was a jokey reference to the thread title, not a response to Zora's comment.

On the sleeper to Edinburgh. I should get involved in a Hitchcockian intrigue, right?

what will u be doing in the land of shortbread and heroin

Teaching a poor darling lad gone astray in Year 9

I bought a Laphroaig 10yr as an arriving gift - pitched about right? Suspect I may have ripped myself off.

Meanwhile, here I sit in the communal buffet car, planning my meal. Have begun, idiotically, with from-concentrate apple juice. So much for holding a candle to ShariVari's jetsetting

nothing wrong with laphy taphy

this has got a 1974 sort of feel, some twitchy british rail apparatchik is going to start confiding to you about an impending coup against harold wilson before long

haha

it's Scotrail now. and there are a surprising amount of children. feels almost identical to a very alienating night I spent in a Gatwick Holiday Inn last year. one's empathy for poor old campari g&t is keen

have ordered the haggis. may the lord have mercy

the haggis was tasty for a microwave meal and I now know what Inverness Sauce tastes like

have begun a few conversations, mostly about architecture

set sail for Scotland

Am going to get a whisky

Highland Park 12yr winning this debate thus far, although am tempted by Glenfiddich 18 or Auchentoshan 12

The most gorgeous mottled sunset + the first chorus of Talk Talk's 'Eden' bursts onto my headphones...I see at that moment that we are passing through a town - a station - Retford -

was talking talk talk in the p*b last night as it happens, love them

Brute fate hurled NIN's We're In This Together next - music to tear through the East Midlands to

The Fall's Repetition turns out to be the perfect soundtrack to speeding through Hertfordshire as a crow harries a red kite

been looking down on the heads of surfers and sunbathers as the Amtrak Surfliner hugs the shore going north to LA. Pulling into San Juan Capistrano.

First train ride in 35+ years on the Amtrak Downeaster last week. It was great! None of the airline bullshit, a/c was better than plenty of flights I've been on, wireless was better than plenty of hotels I've stayed at, and stomping thru the cars to the little cafe was fun.

in fact I'm on the wrong train. the train I am on is going to Brussels and I wanted the one that went to Paris. at Lille I will get off this train I am on and get on another train to Paris. #onatrain

Fifty euro fine because I activated t the "travel day" in my eurail pass after sitting down in the train and not before boarding. There are so many expensive mistakes you can make when taking trains in France. Love the view out the window of the TGV from Lyon to Nice though.

Nothing like slapping good faith in the face when you are the humble hand of a public service corporation.

Last time I took the SNCF, my return train departed three hours late from Paris. My total fare (to London) was close to 500 euros, I was eligible for a 50% reimbursement which turned out to be.... 27 euros. Either the Eurostar is expensive or intermediaries take much more than I thought. Not my money in this case, but a sad incentive to fly.

On this trip, I opted to take the ferry from Dover to Calais instead of the Eurostar, and it was much cheaper and I quite liked it.

I'm on a train too.

Really like Nice, even if its a retired old town vibe (I went in Feb a couple of years ago)

Due to mistakes and delays, I only have one day there. Is there anything in particular I should make sure I see?

I just went on walks (was there for some yoga intensive so didn't get too much time to check stuff out)

I just went on walks (was there for some yoga intensive so didn't get too much time to check stuff out)

i have a new work railcard that allows me to take all trains (and trams and buses) around dublin out towards a very wide metropolitan area

ive been using it to take different paths home, its a type of fum

Nice was wonderful, wish I'd had much longer and could have spent more time in the water, but overall a fantastic 24 hours.

Went to Nice alone when I was dirt broke and needed a vacation. I remember: seafood pasta and a huge portion of osso bucco in the old town, the garden at the very top of Grasse (the perfume village), the sheer ugliness of Monaco (with some Formula 1 rehearsing), pointless hanging out around the Cannes film festival. One year before the truck attack. I flew though.

The swimming was wonderful; I left my hostel in the morning with my swim things and some cash but no valuables on me, walked through the Old Town, bought cherries at the market, then walked through an archway from the market out onto the beach and went in the water. Completely seamless transition from sightseeing to swimming.

I also met up with an old friend who is married to a man from Nice, and she invited me to a beach apero party hosted by her in laws which was really lovely - all ages, very friendly, with a potluck that was largely traditional niçois food, and with some niçois folk dancing that I was terrible at. That part of the trip was pure luck, of course, but I would have liked Nice even without it.