Just boarded the all-day, all-night train from Bucharest to Istanbul. It seems to be only one carriage at the moment, which i assume will be connected to a bigger train at some point.

Researchers find 180,000 giant tortoises living on island in Seychelles

Clean books and dirty energy win again.

Arriving into a very sunny Bucharest. Slightly behind schedule, but a great overnight trip. I've now got two nights in Romania before heading to Istanbul 🇹🇷

Cortes was not motivated by “knowledge”, lads 😬

Interesting that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania dropped out but Go Vilnius stood firm.

And I'm on my first sleeper train of the trip! Going from Vienna to Bucharest. I'm in a four-bed couchette, but am currently the only person in here. Im sure that won't be the case for long.

We need to be less hysterical about potential AMOC collapse in 2100 and way more hysterical about the actual mega El Niño in 2027.

Spending the day in Vienna as I "wait" for my sleeper train from Austria to Romania.

Three trains later and I have arrived in Vienna 🇦🇹 Great to be going by rail from today. It makes everything much easier — and I even managed to briefly dip into the restaurant car.

Geneva to Vienna by train today, via a rather convoluted route through Zurich, Bregenz and Feldkirch. The cost of a cheaper ticket, I guess...

I have arrived in Switzerland! 🇨🇭 1.5 hours late into Geneva, but not too bad considering we had a pitstop at a tyre garage.

The impacts of current storms in Spain are very visible between Barcelona and Girona. Let's hope they aren't supercharged by climate change like in previous years.

Last night was also my first train of the journey. High-speed from Madrid to Barcelona. Almost on time.