Paris to Barcelona for only 49- by NIGHT TRAIN
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Date: 2024-01-09
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-hansmiller664
To take a Plane, especially nowadays, is not travelling.
To travel means that you are forced to use your brain and all your senses.
You have to use a different Language, get over strange food, wether bad or DELICIOUS (It will never taste the same if you try it back home, you'll find Strangers, some A. holes who don't care, but also the kindest People that will help you out of ANY trouble that you got trapped in.
Not to mention, that you SEE a Landscape, either boring for Miles, or so overwhelming, that you will never forget this sight to your deathbed.
If you have the money go first class on a Train. Planes are uncomfortable (sometimes even in Business/First) and I'm always afraid of that HORRIBLE, LOOOONG way to the City of that certain town.
A last good advice in five Points:
-1. Learn the Language (People will be more nicely, if you greet them by their own Language)
2. Visit the Country
3. Then judge
4. If you HAVE to (Easy, normal complaints about Service, Weather, Food or prices doesn't count! You booked it)
5. Not the other way around, what many People do!
So next time, for a long distance ride, take a Night train sleeper. If there is no Dining Car, have a little Ruccsakk with a Thermos bottle of Tea or Coffee for breakfast which goes easily with hard-boiled eggs a little bread roll, Butter and Marmalade Packs and an Apple or a Banana / Orange. So you have Breakfast.
For Dinner, when you arranged yourself in the Compartment, prepare a Potato or -Macaroni- Salad wich goes perfectly with any cold fried Meat in a small Tupperbox (perhaps another Breadroll) A small Bottle of Wine or Beer?
A knife, fork a bottle opener, 3 or 4 paper plates and a Napkin (either Paper or a real Napkin, even a white Kitchen towel will do, it can help you if you spoiled the table in your Compartment) and you are ready to go for a nice meal, what other travellers will envy you for. (Offer them a small sandwich and a sip of Wine. .. -)
All this has Place in a small Backpack or, depending on your Luggage, in an extra bag.
Enjoy your TRAIN RIDE! ---
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To take a Plane, especially nowadays, is not travelling.
To travel means that you are forced to use your brain and all your senses.
You have to use a different Language, get over strange food, wether bad or DELICIOUS (It will never taste the same if you try it back home, you'll find Strangers, some A. holes who don't care, but also the kindest People that will help you out of ANY trouble that you got trapped in.
Not to mention, that you SEE a Landscape, either boring for Miles, or so overwhelming, that you will never forget this sight to your deathbed.
If you have the money go first class on a Train. Planes are uncomfortable (sometimes even in Business/First) and I'm always afraid of that HORRIBLE, LOOOONG way to the City of that certain town.
A last good advice in five Points:
-1. Learn the Language (People will be more nicely, if you greet them by their own Language)
2. Visit the Country
3. Then judge
4. If you HAVE to (Easy, normal complaints about Service, Weather, Food or prices doesn't count! You booked it)
5. Not the other way around, what many People do!
So next time, for a long distance ride, take a Night train sleeper. If there is no Dining Car, have a little Ruccsakk with a Thermos bottle of Tea or Coffee for breakfast which goes easily with hard-boiled eggs a little bread roll, Butter and Marmalade Packs and an Apple or a Banana / Orange. So you have Breakfast.
For Dinner, when you arranged yourself in the Compartment, prepare a Potato or -Macaroni- Salad wich goes perfectly with any cold fried Meat in a small Tupperbox (perhaps another Breadroll) A small Bottle of Wine or Beer?
A knife, fork a bottle opener, 3 or 4 paper plates and a Napkin (either Paper or a real Napkin, even a white Kitchen towel will do, it can help you if you spoiled the table in your Compartment) and you are ready to go for a nice meal, what other travellers will envy you for. (Offer them a small sandwich and a sip of Wine. .. -)
All this has Place in a small Backpack or, depending on your Luggage, in an extra bag.
Enjoy your TRAIN RIDE! ---
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-titteryenot4524
Latour de Carol is an interesting transit point for those migrants seeking a better life. I was there a few years ago as a traveller heading up to Toulouse and recall seeing at least half a dozen lads, mostly separately, of North African and sub-Saharan African descent, mooching in and around the station. One guy I found myself next to, by chance, on the train, and here-s what surprised me: he was impeccably, cleanly dressed in smart jeans, t-shirt, white sneakers, (I noted he even had a decent looking watch, and he spoke pretty fluent French, but - he appeared to have no money on him, for when the train guard asked for his ticket he couldn-t produce one and there was a back and forth between the two before the guard realised this guy really -didn-t- have any ready cash, or other means of paying for his ticket. He also didn-t have any luggage. At all. I was intrigued. Who was he? Where was he going? Where had he come from?
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Latour de Carol is an interesting transit point for those migrants seeking a better life. I was there a few years ago as a traveller heading up to Toulouse and recall seeing at least half a dozen lads, mostly separately, of North African and sub-Saharan African descent, mooching in and around the station. One guy I found myself next to, by chance, on the train, and here-s what surprised me: he was impeccably, cleanly dressed in smart jeans, t-shirt, white sneakers, (I noted he even had a decent looking watch, and he spoke pretty fluent French, but - he appeared to have no money on him, for when the train guard asked for his ticket he couldn-t produce one and there was a back and forth between the two before the guard realised this guy really -didn-t- have any ready cash, or other means of paying for his ticket. He also didn-t have any luggage. At all. I was intrigued. Who was he? Where was he going? Where had he come from?
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-djvincekline7338
Great video! In July I travelled from Latour back to Barcelona (I live one hour south of Barna in the magnificent beach resort called Calafell) and if I can recall well there was an issue as well. But that was actually due to the Tour de France. Not from Latour into Spain but from Latour towards Foix. There were no trains at all. Luckily, the SNCF took care of a bus that drove all the way into Ax les Thermes (and further to Foix, although I cycled from Ax to Tarascon and back to watch the Tour. If I can recall well, there was a train from Latour back into Spain. By the way, it's absolutely stunning. The Pyrenees are so beautiful, and La Molina (the place that reminded you of the Rocky Mountains) is a hard climb from Puigcerda, but also a nice ski resort. Anyway, keep going on with making these great videos: -)
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Great video! In July I travelled from Latour back to Barcelona (I live one hour south of Barna in the magnificent beach resort called Calafell) and if I can recall well there was an issue as well. But that was actually due to the Tour de France. Not from Latour into Spain but from Latour towards Foix. There were no trains at all. Luckily, the SNCF took care of a bus that drove all the way into Ax les Thermes (and further to Foix, although I cycled from Ax to Tarascon and back to watch the Tour. If I can recall well, there was a train from Latour back into Spain. By the way, it's absolutely stunning. The Pyrenees are so beautiful, and La Molina (the place that reminded you of the Rocky Mountains) is a hard climb from Puigcerda, but also a nice ski resort. Anyway, keep going on with making these great videos: -)
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I guess this bad relation between sncf and renfe comes from the liberalization of railroad transportation meaning the end of monopoly for sncf. Last december I took the tgv from barcelona to perpignan and a month before the trip, no tickets sale was available still. I read that came down to renegotiation exploration contract at the end of 2022, and sncf being - not cooperative - to say the least.
Great vid, this nigh trains from Port Bou to Austerlitz brought be back decades ago in the late 70s when I was visiting Paris as a child.
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I guess this bad relation between sncf and renfe comes from the liberalization of railroad transportation meaning the end of monopoly for sncf. Last december I took the tgv from barcelona to perpignan and a month before the trip, no tickets sale was available still. I read that came down to renegotiation exploration contract at the end of 2022, and sncf being - not cooperative - to say the least.
Great vid, this nigh trains from Port Bou to Austerlitz brought be back decades ago in the late 70s when I was visiting Paris as a child.
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-languagetrains
Same amount of shame belongs to RENFE or Ferrocarrils de Catalunya or whoever runs them. Why they draw shifts that way if it is known there is no possibility of a breakroom! It could be any small terminus like dozens in Europe. Plan the breaks elsewhere then. But RENFE is known for stretching this, I remember when a driver of Alvia stopped midway between Santander and Madrid - just in one small station before Palencia to have his mandatory break, just because Renfe operations relied that drivers would suck it up.
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Same amount of shame belongs to RENFE or Ferrocarrils de Catalunya or whoever runs them. Why they draw shifts that way if it is known there is no possibility of a breakroom! It could be any small terminus like dozens in Europe. Plan the breaks elsewhere then. But RENFE is known for stretching this, I remember when a driver of Alvia stopped midway between Santander and Madrid - just in one small station before Palencia to have his mandatory break, just because Renfe operations relied that drivers would suck it up.
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-louiscy
I took a night train from Paris to Venice in 2002 just right before Christmas.
Unfortunately the train was delayed for more than 6 hours, it was departing
from Gare de Bercy, which was like a building site other than a train station.
There were no announcement of reasons or nobody seemed to know when
the train would depart. Finally more than 7 hours of wait it was off to Venice.
Fare was 219euro for return trip on first class which is not a bad deal.
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I took a night train from Paris to Venice in 2002 just right before Christmas.
Unfortunately the train was delayed for more than 6 hours, it was departing
from Gare de Bercy, which was like a building site other than a train station.
There were no announcement of reasons or nobody seemed to know when
the train would depart. Finally more than 7 hours of wait it was off to Venice.
Fare was 219euro for return trip on first class which is not a bad deal.
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-fatwalletboy2
That looks a great sleeper trip.
You dont want mega high speed running on these and you get to traverse some of the classic lines.
Plus a train you can still open the windows on and peek out into the fresh air. Lovely.
The line up of classic electrics at Paris Austeritz was a time warp.
Shame the sleep dudnt go to the heart of Barcelona for for 49 euros for 518 miles in your own couchette was a bargain.
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That looks a great sleeper trip.
You dont want mega high speed running on these and you get to traverse some of the classic lines.
Plus a train you can still open the windows on and peek out into the fresh air. Lovely.
The line up of classic electrics at Paris Austeritz was a time warp.
Shame the sleep dudnt go to the heart of Barcelona for for 49 euros for 518 miles in your own couchette was a bargain.
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-alang5764
This petty squabbling between SNCF and RENFE over a break room is only a sideshow in comparison to the joke that is the connections at Latour de Carol for day trains, 3 out of the 4 possible connections southbound have the Spanish train to Barcelona depart less than 10 minutes before the French train from Toulouse arrives, 2 of them depart one minute before the arrival, that is not a coincidence it is done on purpose.
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This petty squabbling between SNCF and RENFE over a break room is only a sideshow in comparison to the joke that is the connections at Latour de Carol for day trains, 3 out of the 4 possible connections southbound have the Spanish train to Barcelona depart less than 10 minutes before the French train from Toulouse arrives, 2 of them depart one minute before the arrival, that is not a coincidence it is done on purpose.
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train
There's nothing out of the ordinary.
The same price can be paid for a plane ticket from paris to barcelona.
It can be cheaper or more expensive, but roughly you could average it at 50 euro
And remember the plane ticket gets you there in 2 hours.
You can have a nice comfortable sleep at the hotel and not be silly to sleep in a train in 2nd class like that.
Use your brain people, don't use train
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There's nothing out of the ordinary.
The same price can be paid for a plane ticket from paris to barcelona.
It can be cheaper or more expensive, but roughly you could average it at 50 euro
And remember the plane ticket gets you there in 2 hours.
You can have a nice comfortable sleep at the hotel and not be silly to sleep in a train in 2nd class like that.
Use your brain people, don't use train
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-tanveerkhan585
We did the same trip but from a different station in Paris. We go to La Tour at the ungodly hour of 6 am!
But the transfer to Spanish train was fine.
They did not accept credit cards and we did not have Euros.
The conductor lady was a sweetheart and let us travel. She accompanied us at Barcelona Sants where we bought tickets and gave to her.
Nice way to travel from Paris to Barcelona
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We did the same trip but from a different station in Paris. We go to La Tour at the ungodly hour of 6 am!
But the transfer to Spanish train was fine.
They did not accept credit cards and we did not have Euros.
The conductor lady was a sweetheart and let us travel. She accompanied us at Barcelona Sants where we bought tickets and gave to her.
Nice way to travel from Paris to Barcelona
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-joelimbergamo639
SNCF acted like childs yes, but it wasnt hard for the train to just open their doors. And its dumb how Renfe handles it if its a known thing, SNCF has the same problem in Portbou anbd they just take a break in Cerbere, and then start the line from there, considering portbou as an stop. This doesnt mess the timetables nor the passenger, it just adds 15min to the travel time
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SNCF acted like childs yes, but it wasnt hard for the train to just open their doors. And its dumb how Renfe handles it if its a known thing, SNCF has the same problem in Portbou anbd they just take a break in Cerbere, and then start the line from there, considering portbou as an stop. This doesnt mess the timetables nor the passenger, it just adds 15min to the travel time
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-antejl7925
There was a much better train in the eighties from Port Bou to Dortmund via Strasbourg. those lovey old West German DB cream and blue coaches with brown seats that pulled down flat to make a bed for free. and this train was nearly always empty. modern trains are boring. The golden days were the western eurofirma composition trains and going into the eastern bloc
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There was a much better train in the eighties from Port Bou to Dortmund via Strasbourg. those lovey old West German DB cream and blue coaches with brown seats that pulled down flat to make a bed for free. and this train was nearly always empty. modern trains are boring. The golden days were the western eurofirma composition trains and going into the eastern bloc
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-OuijTube
These SNCF Nez Casse locos look so wild to me. Even crazier that Alstom was in the competition to supply the locos for the Northeast Regional service for Amtrack back in the day. We would have gotten these instead of the EMD AEM-7 -toasters- that served on the Northeast Corridor for years.
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These SNCF Nez Casse locos look so wild to me. Even crazier that Alstom was in the competition to supply the locos for the Northeast Regional service for Amtrack back in the day. We would have gotten these instead of the EMD AEM-7 -toasters- that served on the Northeast Corridor for years.
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-matejpatak3313
Hey, im planning to go from Paris to Barcelona by the night train too, but cannot find the connection between Latour de Carol and Barcelona. I tried the Interrail app, Renfe website and even the website of Rodalies de Catalunya. Could you please help me?
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Hey, im planning to go from Paris to Barcelona by the night train too, but cannot find the connection between Latour de Carol and Barcelona. I tried the Interrail app, Renfe website and even the website of Rodalies de Catalunya. Could you please help me?
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-martinyfelix
The Madrid commuter transportation has some trains like that Rodalies you took but the seats are in a configuration of four (two and two facing each other) or three in a row which means that you can strech your less and feel less crowded.
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The Madrid commuter transportation has some trains like that Rodalies you took but the seats are in a configuration of four (two and two facing each other) or three in a row which means that you can strech your less and feel less crowded.
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-nigeldawson5960
First class and crammed in with 3 others? Just another race to the bottom. Cheap cheap cheap. Why? Let prices be what they have to be for quality accommodations and service. The problem is even worse in aviation. Pathetic.
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First class and crammed in with 3 others? Just another race to the bottom. Cheap cheap cheap. Why? Let prices be what they have to be for quality accommodations and service. The problem is even worse in aviation. Pathetic.
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-Ven100
I thought about taking this train from Barcelona to Paris but then figured it was worthwhile to pay a little more for the InOui TGV Duplex which did the journey in 6H 41 min. Granted I did pay extra for first class (worth it IMO.
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I thought about taking this train from Barcelona to Paris but then figured it was worthwhile to pay a little more for the InOui TGV Duplex which did the journey in 6H 41 min. Granted I did pay extra for first class (worth it IMO.
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-Luigi-uj5ml
An hour late due to serious negligence by the SNCF: they really are beggars! I don't think the SNCF would behave like this in a border railway station reached by Swiss trains (Pontarlier, Delle, Vallorcine and so on.
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An hour late due to serious negligence by the SNCF: they really are beggars! I don't think the SNCF would behave like this in a border railway station reached by Swiss trains (Pontarlier, Delle, Vallorcine and so on.
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-bk1147
This is a wonderful post. I went on a school trip from Birmingham to Barcelona with Couchettes when I was 16. I am now 60 and I can feel the excitement of that trip yet again
Superb work
Kieran
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This is a wonderful post. I went on a school trip from Birmingham to Barcelona with Couchettes when I was 16. I am now 60 and I can feel the excitement of that trip yet again
Superb work
Kieran
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The bad feelings between RENFE and SNCF is quite petty. I wonder if it's in the official guidebook for SNCF staff to be awkward towards their RENFE counterparts. So much for neighbourly co-operation.
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The bad feelings between RENFE and SNCF is quite petty. I wonder if it's in the official guidebook for SNCF staff to be awkward towards their RENFE counterparts. So much for neighbourly co-operation.
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-SvenMolhuijsen1
RENFE should just put down a container and sign that says: -we cannot use the SNCF breakroom, cause they are too petty-. Good that Rosalie's de Catalunya didn't let you stand there tho.
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RENFE should just put down a container and sign that says: -we cannot use the SNCF breakroom, cause they are too petty-. Good that Rosalie's de Catalunya didn't let you stand there tho.
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-petergilbert72
If you don-t have much luggage it is pleasant to walk between Puigcerda and LaTour. It-s 4km flat walk along country tracks. Puigcerda is a pretty town worth spending an hour or two.
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If you don-t have much luggage it is pleasant to walk between Puigcerda and LaTour. It-s 4km flat walk along country tracks. Puigcerda is a pretty town worth spending an hour or two.
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-DJZONEist
I am from Barcelona and I see more Renfe and Train accidents throughout Spain every month, it is not unsafe, it is not unsafe. What Spanish state is hiding the news of accidents!
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I am from Barcelona and I see more Renfe and Train accidents throughout Spain every month, it is not unsafe, it is not unsafe. What Spanish state is hiding the news of accidents!
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-mrtorstai5336
A brilliant video. Nice that SNCF has night trains back on track. Always wanted to get from Berlin to Barcelona by train, now I know, how this can be done while sleeping.
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A brilliant video. Nice that SNCF has night trains back on track. Always wanted to get from Berlin to Barcelona by train, now I know, how this can be done while sleeping.
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train
World: quick, help us with climate change, bring more passengers on the rails
SNCF: only if these lousy spanish conductors take their coffee break IN SPAIN!
-_-'
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World: quick, help us with climate change, bring more passengers on the rails
SNCF: only if these lousy spanish conductors take their coffee break IN SPAIN!
-_-'
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-user-kz5xj9nc1f
i dont have passport. i live in france without passport is it possible to go barcelona? is there any cheak post between paris and barcelona border
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i dont have passport. i live in france without passport is it possible to go barcelona? is there any cheak post between paris and barcelona border
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After this trip you deserved the -Triunphal Arch- (20: 22 Barcelona-Arc de Triomf)-for having the patience of a -Saint-(20: 24 Barcelona-Sants)---
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After this trip you deserved the -Triunphal Arch- (20: 22 Barcelona-Arc de Triomf)-for having the patience of a -Saint-(20: 24 Barcelona-Sants)---
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-bellechannel
I got scared to look when you opened the toilet. As if I was expecting some horrendous things in there but good thing, they are clean --
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I got scared to look when you opened the toilet. As if I was expecting some horrendous things in there but good thing, they are clean --
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-VictorKB96
Where do you buy the tickets between Barcelona and Latour? The ones I found are more expensive than the train between Paris and Latour
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Where do you buy the tickets between Barcelona and Latour? The ones I found are more expensive than the train between Paris and Latour
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-malhaq7879
If you write bigger font better for elder ppl as many may have eye issues.
Thanks regards
Short n simple of course. regards
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If you write bigger font better for elder ppl as many may have eye issues.
Thanks regards
Short n simple of course. regards
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train
This is such a fantastic idea. Thank you for sharing. I do hope sncf gets their shit together but still it seems worth the risk. --
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This is such a fantastic idea. Thank you for sharing. I do hope sncf gets their shit together but still it seems worth the risk. --
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train
I did this trip last week and there are no problem with the rodalies any more. I took it easily from Lator de Querol to Barcelona
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I did this trip last week and there are no problem with the rodalies any more. I took it easily from Lator de Querol to Barcelona
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-ghosthunters9497
Come get me from Norway and smuggle me to uk I have to get back home, please. Your the only one that can help me!
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Come get me from Norway and smuggle me to uk I have to get back home, please. Your the only one that can help me!
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-nigeldawson5960
Won-t let the person in their break room. How juvenile! What a great example of monopoly power in action.
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Won-t let the person in their break room. How juvenile! What a great example of monopoly power in action.
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Thank you mr Thibault for an exelente journey so beutiful. A lok allways on your wideos. Regards from Sweden! Roger
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Thank you mr Thibault for an exelente journey so beutiful. A lok allways on your wideos. Regards from Sweden! Roger
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