Oddbean new post about login | logout @0c1a9324 Curious, what makes it feel so exhausting?
@a68330c8 7.5 hours on trains one day then 10.5 the next (with multiple delays/cancellations). 18 hours vs a 20 hour flight. Oh, and passport control and security and immigration en route (although Eurostar security is perfunctory compared to flying).
@0c1a9324 Damn. that's rough... the route I looked up before asking was like 14h with 3 different lines. Still, a bit crazy.
@a68330c8 Edinburgh is about 400 miles out from being in the right place for nipping across to the continent via Eurostar: wrong end of what is effectively a long, thin peninsula (Great Britain). Straight lines distance means it's almost always much shorter to flirt, event with high speed trains: it's because the North Sea is in the way.
@0c1a9324 @a68330c8 I find plane hopping and passport / security entering EU to be the worst when we fly from Rio de Janeiro to Geneva. The rest is just boring & tedious and uncomfortable but that part where you have to line up and feel like you’re under arrest and fear you don’t have the right docs etc is the most stressful. In comparison while also exhausting a 10 hour drive in seems very relaxing (and I don’t like driving particularly). Having no fixed time helps.
@b1398a2d @a68330c8 Driving is stressful when you're half blind in one eye—still legal, but it's impossible to relax vigilance because on one side your peripheral vision is shit and somebody might be overtaking in your giant blind spot. I do not miss driving. (Still have a license but it's strictly for emergency use only.)