The price of train tickets

January 4, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Not just the price of food went up last year, travelling by train became more expensive from the middle of December, as the Tagesschau news reported.

The prices for tickets, bahncards and reservations rose, even the price of the “Schönes-Wochenende-Ticket” went up to 35EUR.

Deutsche Bahn have, however, added new destinations for the fast ICE trains, which may well be very useful for people wanting to travel around Europe, with the new connections to Paris, Vienna and Copenhagen.

People living in Germany who have a Bahncard and who travel around Europe may be able to make use of the RailPlus option – until now an optional (charged) extra, that according to the Tagesschau article is now included in the price of the Bahncard 50.

All these prices rises may not go down too well with travellers, who at the moment are suffering at the hands of the train drivers’ strikes that took place in the autumn of last year and may well be repeated in the early part of 2008 if talks break down again.

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Free Lanzarote guide book available

January 4, 2008 By 2 Comments

The website lanzaroteguidebook.com is offering a new guide to Lanzarote free online as a PDF download.

The book deals with things to do in the winter months and as well as introducing the main towns on the island, it contains maps as well as ideas for things to do and places to eat – included important information such as prices, telephone numbers and opening times.

The 96 page guide can be downloaded here.

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Sending a dustcart to Bolivia?

January 4, 2008 By 2 Comments

The first story of the year that caught my eye is somewhat unusual.

A lady from Berlin is raising money to send a dustcart to Samaipata (original story here).

The story got me thinking – rubbish being collected by a lorry rather than a dustcart I could imagine, but did I see this happening during my visit anywhere? Was rubbish such a problem?

So I went back through all my photographs – and it took me a while to find any pictures with rubbish on them. On almost all of them there was none to be seen, not in Sucre, Potosi, La Paz, Cochabamba or Villa Tunari.

On closer inspection I did find two examples – the (closed) railway station in Sucre, and the hill up to the shines in Copacabana.

Rubbish in Bolivia

Above: the station in Sucre
Below: the hill climbing up to the shrines in Copacabana
(July 2000)

Even in the poorest areas such as El Alto I cannot find any.

That said, there was often a problem with sewage. I remember the filthy colour of the river flowing through La Paz, or the blocked toilets in Cochabamba.

Perhaps after the dustcart, someone should start collecting for a sewage treatment programme?

Filed Under: Bolivia, General

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