Mark 🔶
@tundrastyle.bsky.social
Pro: active travel, rail & public transport, geography, LTNs, 15m cities, EU, maps, bogs, woodland ecology, boreal forests
Anti: crypto, Musk, climate change deniers, xenophobes, MAGA
Looking to set up pro-Active Travel group in Hampshire.
DM me.
#resist
Anti: crypto, Musk, climate change deniers, xenophobes, MAGA
Looking to set up pro-Active Travel group in Hampshire.
DM me.
#resist
Interesting graphic of the Ferrovia Circumetnea (FCE) system, looping round Mount Etna.
The map shows then rail route but also the parallel bus route.
Does this suggest that long-term the railway will disappear? Its’s already lost 20km at the Catania end.
#sicily #rail #FCE #circumetnea
The map shows then rail route but also the parallel bus route.
Does this suggest that long-term the railway will disappear? Its’s already lost 20km at the Catania end.
#sicily #rail #FCE #circumetnea
August 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Interesting graphic of the Ferrovia Circumetnea (FCE) system, looping round Mount Etna.
The map shows then rail route but also the parallel bus route.
Does this suggest that long-term the railway will disappear? Its’s already lost 20km at the Catania end.
#sicily #rail #FCE #circumetnea
The map shows then rail route but also the parallel bus route.
Does this suggest that long-term the railway will disappear? Its’s already lost 20km at the Catania end.
#sicily #rail #FCE #circumetnea
Setting off on my holiday this morning.
3 weeks in Sicily. Travelling by train to Catania from Hampshire.
Well first a bus, then the ferry to Le Havre.
Guide book at my side.
#rail #nofly #sustainabletravel
3 weeks in Sicily. Travelling by train to Catania from Hampshire.
Well first a bus, then the ferry to Le Havre.
Guide book at my side.
#rail #nofly #sustainabletravel
August 6, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Setting off on my holiday this morning.
3 weeks in Sicily. Travelling by train to Catania from Hampshire.
Well first a bus, then the ferry to Le Havre.
Guide book at my side.
#rail #nofly #sustainabletravel
3 weeks in Sicily. Travelling by train to Catania from Hampshire.
Well first a bus, then the ferry to Le Havre.
Guide book at my side.
#rail #nofly #sustainabletravel
Travelling around rural western Poland by train.
So many single track lines with a train maybe only every 2 or 3 hours (but often with occasional intercity train too).
It’s a real investment decarbonised future travel.
Every single station seems to have money being actively spent.
So many single track lines with a train maybe only every 2 or 3 hours (but often with occasional intercity train too).
It’s a real investment decarbonised future travel.
Every single station seems to have money being actively spent.
June 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Travelling around rural western Poland by train.
So many single track lines with a train maybe only every 2 or 3 hours (but often with occasional intercity train too).
It’s a real investment decarbonised future travel.
Every single station seems to have money being actively spent.
So many single track lines with a train maybe only every 2 or 3 hours (but often with occasional intercity train too).
It’s a real investment decarbonised future travel.
Every single station seems to have money being actively spent.
The directions to So Coffee.
I am literally sitting in it and the app is telling me to go to the far side of the building and come through multiple walls. 🤦🏼♂️
I am literally sitting in it and the app is telling me to go to the far side of the building and come through multiple walls. 🤦🏼♂️
June 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
The directions to So Coffee.
I am literally sitting in it and the app is telling me to go to the far side of the building and come through multiple walls. 🤦🏼♂️
I am literally sitting in it and the app is telling me to go to the far side of the building and come through multiple walls. 🤦🏼♂️
Enjoying Warsaw, one of the world’s great cities: friendly, cheerful, buzzing.
Believe the Berlin - Warsaw - Baltic States axis will be the centre of so much more in the future: a new Hanseatic League.
If only Russia and Belarus weren’t such shitshows rn, I’d add Minsk and St Petersburg to that.
Believe the Berlin - Warsaw - Baltic States axis will be the centre of so much more in the future: a new Hanseatic League.
If only Russia and Belarus weren’t such shitshows rn, I’d add Minsk and St Petersburg to that.
June 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Enjoying Warsaw, one of the world’s great cities: friendly, cheerful, buzzing.
Believe the Berlin - Warsaw - Baltic States axis will be the centre of so much more in the future: a new Hanseatic League.
If only Russia and Belarus weren’t such shitshows rn, I’d add Minsk and St Petersburg to that.
Believe the Berlin - Warsaw - Baltic States axis will be the centre of so much more in the future: a new Hanseatic League.
If only Russia and Belarus weren’t such shitshows rn, I’d add Minsk and St Petersburg to that.
I understand that during the power outage yesterday, many in Barcelona just came outside and sat and chatted with friends and strangers over drinks that weren’t as cold as usual.
I’m starting to think the Spanish don’t do mad panic as readily as we would like.
I’m starting to think the Spanish don’t do mad panic as readily as we would like.
April 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I understand that during the power outage yesterday, many in Barcelona just came outside and sat and chatted with friends and strangers over drinks that weren’t as cold as usual.
I’m starting to think the Spanish don’t do mad panic as readily as we would like.
I’m starting to think the Spanish don’t do mad panic as readily as we would like.
Fortunately the USA has more scientists coming through.
😬
😬
April 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Fortunately the USA has more scientists coming through.
😬
😬
More from the folks helping free the USA from the nightmare of 80 years of uninterrupted prosperity and world leadership.
Another win! Go America!
(From the “Really Couldn’t Make This Shit Up” department)
Another win! Go America!
(From the “Really Couldn’t Make This Shit Up” department)
April 22, 2025 at 7:15 AM
More from the folks helping free the USA from the nightmare of 80 years of uninterrupted prosperity and world leadership.
Another win! Go America!
(From the “Really Couldn’t Make This Shit Up” department)
Another win! Go America!
(From the “Really Couldn’t Make This Shit Up” department)
Grok! Write me a message about Easter as if I was POTUS and as if I a give af. Specifically mention of the dude with the Latino name!
Don’t mention that almost 1 in 4 US citizens are not Christian. Flip it the other way.
Don’t mention that almost 1 in 4 US citizens are not Christian. Flip it the other way.
April 14, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Grok! Write me a message about Easter as if I was POTUS and as if I a give af. Specifically mention of the dude with the Latino name!
Don’t mention that almost 1 in 4 US citizens are not Christian. Flip it the other way.
Don’t mention that almost 1 in 4 US citizens are not Christian. Flip it the other way.
This sums up the sheer stupidity in the USA.
That possibly millions believe this is the reason the world has to set the USA to one side and continue without them.
That possibly millions believe this is the reason the world has to set the USA to one side and continue without them.
April 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
This sums up the sheer stupidity in the USA.
That possibly millions believe this is the reason the world has to set the USA to one side and continue without them.
That possibly millions believe this is the reason the world has to set the USA to one side and continue without them.
Every Trump economic, social and governance executive order.
April 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Every Trump economic, social and governance executive order.
This map interests not so much because of the outcome biyt because I really want to know *why*.
What links areas of the same colour?
What links areas of the same colour?
April 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
This map interests not so much because of the outcome biyt because I really want to know *why*.
What links areas of the same colour?
What links areas of the same colour?
The Locomotion museum in Shildon, Co Durham, is at the centre of the 200th anniversary of the first steam hauled passenger railway.
A wonderful museum with a lot of interesting social commentary as well as the railway stuff 😊
But the irony of the absolutely enormous car park 😬
A wonderful museum with a lot of interesting social commentary as well as the railway stuff 😊
But the irony of the absolutely enormous car park 😬
March 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The Locomotion museum in Shildon, Co Durham, is at the centre of the 200th anniversary of the first steam hauled passenger railway.
A wonderful museum with a lot of interesting social commentary as well as the railway stuff 😊
But the irony of the absolutely enormous car park 😬
A wonderful museum with a lot of interesting social commentary as well as the railway stuff 😊
But the irony of the absolutely enormous car park 😬
Yesterday was the start of the summer season on Loch Katrine and a cruise along the loch on the venerable SS Sir Walter Scott was in order.
But the great weather of the last month gave way to dreich and then heavier rain.
But still such an enjoyable day.
But the great weather of the last month gave way to dreich and then heavier rain.
But still such an enjoyable day.
March 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Yesterday was the start of the summer season on Loch Katrine and a cruise along the loch on the venerable SS Sir Walter Scott was in order.
But the great weather of the last month gave way to dreich and then heavier rain.
But still such an enjoyable day.
But the great weather of the last month gave way to dreich and then heavier rain.
But still such an enjoyable day.
Four hours walking round the top end of Loch Katrine. 3 hours of rain lashing down and an hour of spring sunshine.
Long drive south tomorrow.
Long drive south tomorrow.
March 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Four hours walking round the top end of Loch Katrine. 3 hours of rain lashing down and an hour of spring sunshine.
Long drive south tomorrow.
Long drive south tomorrow.
TLDR: “Pretty much everything”
March 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
TLDR: “Pretty much everything”
Pretty annoying when you travel to see a museum (Dumbarton part of the Scottish Maritime Museum) only to find when you arrive that it doesn’t open as advertised, but an hour later.
How hard is it to update Google Maps with this?
I’m stood out in the rain for an hour with my whole day’s plans shot.
😡
How hard is it to update Google Maps with this?
I’m stood out in the rain for an hour with my whole day’s plans shot.
😡
March 27, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Pretty annoying when you travel to see a museum (Dumbarton part of the Scottish Maritime Museum) only to find when you arrive that it doesn’t open as advertised, but an hour later.
How hard is it to update Google Maps with this?
I’m stood out in the rain for an hour with my whole day’s plans shot.
😡
How hard is it to update Google Maps with this?
I’m stood out in the rain for an hour with my whole day’s plans shot.
😡
My two-week exploration of the British Isles’ periphery is ending.
It’s my annual search for temperate rainforest and raised bogs .
Across Kintyre & Islay, I’ve resolutely picked the wrong footwear and worn too many layers daily.
Few places can match the beauty and welcome of Scotland or Ireland.
It’s my annual search for temperate rainforest and raised bogs .
Across Kintyre & Islay, I’ve resolutely picked the wrong footwear and worn too many layers daily.
Few places can match the beauty and welcome of Scotland or Ireland.
March 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
My two-week exploration of the British Isles’ periphery is ending.
It’s my annual search for temperate rainforest and raised bogs .
Across Kintyre & Islay, I’ve resolutely picked the wrong footwear and worn too many layers daily.
Few places can match the beauty and welcome of Scotland or Ireland.
It’s my annual search for temperate rainforest and raised bogs .
Across Kintyre & Islay, I’ve resolutely picked the wrong footwear and worn too many layers daily.
Few places can match the beauty and welcome of Scotland or Ireland.
Absolutely thrilled to ‘discover’ the Crarae beech (Fagus sylvatica ‘Crarae’), surely one of Scotland’s rarest trees.
Worth the trip to see this.
Worth the trip to see this.
March 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Absolutely thrilled to ‘discover’ the Crarae beech (Fagus sylvatica ‘Crarae’), surely one of Scotland’s rarest trees.
Worth the trip to see this.
Worth the trip to see this.
They had no problem building motorways before the traffic came.
March 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
They had no problem building motorways before the traffic came.
The Portavadie Tarbert ferry is a lonely crossing. Although like a mirror, there’s something sinister about Loch Fyne in the late afternoon: cold, deep, mysterious.
Tarbert’s an industrious little place but Portavadie seems like the edge of civilisation.
Tarbert’s an industrious little place but Portavadie seems like the edge of civilisation.
March 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The Portavadie Tarbert ferry is a lonely crossing. Although like a mirror, there’s something sinister about Loch Fyne in the late afternoon: cold, deep, mysterious.
Tarbert’s an industrious little place but Portavadie seems like the edge of civilisation.
Tarbert’s an industrious little place but Portavadie seems like the edge of civilisation.
View down the gorgeous Kyles of Bute from near Tighnabruaich today
March 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
View down the gorgeous Kyles of Bute from near Tighnabruaich today
Such a revealing map.
March 19, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Such a revealing map.
Walked across Wedholme Flow and Glasson Moss this morning.
The Solway Mosses NNR is England’s largest remaining raised bog and and incredibly rare habitat now. Even rarer are the birch-alder-willow wet woodlands, part of the lagg at the fringes of the bogs.
The Solway Mosses NNR is England’s largest remaining raised bog and and incredibly rare habitat now. Even rarer are the birch-alder-willow wet woodlands, part of the lagg at the fringes of the bogs.
March 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Walked across Wedholme Flow and Glasson Moss this morning.
The Solway Mosses NNR is England’s largest remaining raised bog and and incredibly rare habitat now. Even rarer are the birch-alder-willow wet woodlands, part of the lagg at the fringes of the bogs.
The Solway Mosses NNR is England’s largest remaining raised bog and and incredibly rare habitat now. Even rarer are the birch-alder-willow wet woodlands, part of the lagg at the fringes of the bogs.
On the plus side, irony is no longer in intensive care.
March 15, 2025 at 6:55 AM
On the plus side, irony is no longer in intensive care.