@c6f37363@e99afe61 Haven’t been to BER or CPH, but I can’t help wistfully recalling all the places—Bergen, Milan, Vienna, Porto, etc.—where the trip from the center city is a painless train ride. (Porto involves one line change that I don’t recall being very difficult.)
Rome, OTOH, was worse than BWI, so we got that goin’ for us, which is nice.
@e99afe61@c6f37363 I just came back last Friday from a trip that included
- Warsaw (RT to/from city on bus; cost 4.40 zlotys, about ~$1.08/person/trip)
- Riga (bus into city w/stop 5 mins. from my hotel; cost 1.50€/person)
- Helsinki (combined tram/commuter rail trip to airport; cost 4.10€/person)
HEL was the most comparable to IAD in distance & time, except that service on the P & I trains seems to be a lot more frequent than on the Silver Line.
@c6f37363 I could wish the station weren’t such a schlep from the airport, or that there were express trains into DC, but having the current service is still a huge upgrade from an $85 cab ride.
We’re way behind most major European cities in providing easy transit access to/from local airports, which is unfortunate. Hell, the 747 express bus from YUL to Montreal is better.
@dee34601 Bar Lambuzo—on a side street* just west of Plaza Descalzas—was tasty & reasonably priced when we went there (twice) back in 2019. It features delicious cheese & other items from Cadiz and staff were super friendly.
The first time we arrived, a bunch of young people were there for a slightly rowdy evening gathering—some sort of workplace send-off for one, from what I could tell—and it all had a convivial, non-touristy vibe.
*Hilariously, there’s a fucking Tim Horton’s two blocks north.
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