It's a go! Two days of #CrossBorderRail (and a little sea): Messina - Villa San Giovanni - Milan - Paris - Brussels. Extreme business travel, really (about 2,500 kms), but this is where we are now with the #ClimateEmergency .
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A perk of slower travel and #CrossBorderRail is looking up friends and re-exploring cities that used to be familiar. In these past few years, #Milan managed to pedestrianize Via Paolo Sarpi, the beating heart of the city's Chinatown. It's really flourishing now! Today I continue on to Paris and then Brussels.
The lack of passengers' rights for rail travellers rears its ugly head on day 2 of 2 of my current #CrossBorderRail journey. I boarded the TGV InOui 9246 in Milan at 12.10, and it is currently running with an 80 minutes delay. I rescheduled my trip by Eurostar from Paris to Brussels to accommodate the delay, but it was a one-off: if I miss this connection, there are no later Eurostars, and I'll have to sleep in Paris and fend for myself. Hopefully @EUCommission comes through with this file.
And indeed, with the TGV INOUI's delay at 110 minutes and counting, I am officially stranded in France for the night, with no passenger's right to invoke since my ongoing journey would have been with a different carrier.
New plan: got off the TV at Mâcon TGV, then I will hopefully reach Lyon, overnight in a hostel there and catch an early TGV to Brussels tomorrow. Ironically, TGV stranded me and I am paying it, instead of it paying me.
Wrapping up day one of two of #CrossBorderRail in Milan with minimal disruption. Good job ItaloTreno.