Finland's Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen has made five requests to the EU that would drastically curtail Russian citizens' ability to travel into and around the bloc,
"The Kremlin must see that continued aggression will deepen its isolation.
I ask you to take these proposals forward as an urgent priority,"
writes Valtonen, as EU foreign ministers meet in Luxembourg.
The first demand is to "stop issuing Schengen visas to Russian nationals for …
Academic idea of an open access conference:
You have to pay £££ to attend online or in-person, even if you are one of the speakers (actually you'll often have to pay more then), and often can only talk if you travel to it in-person (even if that means a transatlantic flight, etc), and have to pay for your own travel and accommodation. You can however read a PDF about a talk for free. The PDF will have been written before the event started.
What it should mean:
Speakers …
Wife and I are thinking about Central America for spring break (March), current suggestions have been Dominican Republic, Costa Rico, Belize, Puerto Rico.
7-10 days.
Recommendations? Strong opinions?
GO!
#boostswelcome #travel
AVFTCN 042 – How Many Satellites Are Planned for LEO? (Also… Australia travel)
How many satellites are currently planned for low Earth orbit (LEO)? 10,000? 100,000? 500,000? 1,000,000? 10,000,000? The answer is higher than you might expect in terms of filings with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)... the real question is: how many will actually launch into orbit? I gave a presentation about all of this at the SPACE Research Group session at the recent…
#IInviteYouToConsider how an idea gets into your head. Chemicals travel thru your body cell by cell via neurons and axons signaling acquisition of some sensory input with algorithms deciding along the way whether and how much of the input to pass along, or step on. (1/4)
The World Awaits: Travel Tales To Inspire Your Wanderlust
Join travel journalists and editors Kirstie Bedford and Belinda Jackson for inspiring stories and inside information from across the world...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustrali…
#FlyingLess puts you in iconic #trains, like this Polish-German InterCity. That’s a decent way to end the #EAAST conference. Including, of course,
VEGAN CABBAGE!🥬
Faye, which offers travel insurance services and uses AI to help resolve claims, raised a $50M Series C led by Madrona, taking its total funding to $100M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/08/05/faye-…
Under The Awning
Each episode goes beyond the pitch for honest conversations about caravanning, towing, travel and the issues shaping Australia's RV industry...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/under-the-awning/ …
Paris Gard du Nord Train Station Afternoon Piano (2023-09) - Ambient busy big city train station with a talented chap tickling the public piano. #fieldRecording #travel #Paris -
On Sep. 30, Amtrak launched new Siemens-built Airo trainsets running on its Cascades line, between Vancouver, B.C., and Eugene, OR. The trains aren't electric, but they do have a top speed of 125 mph (201 km/h), and feature panoramic windows and carry more passengers (up to 317 per railcar).
In the summer of 2023, after he was impeached on charges of abusing his office for personal gain,
#Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was suspended and barred from conducting any official business for more than three months
while awaiting trial in the state Senate.
So, he traveled.
#Paxton, a Republic…
Neulich in einem Dokumentarfilm von Coober Pedy in Australien erfahren, einer Stadt, in der etliche Menschen unterirdisch (im wörtlichen Sinn) wohnen.
Ich muss sagen, das klingt mit jeder Hitzewelle interessanter.
https://www.outback-australia…
at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata
PSI, which aims to use AI "to industrialize the discovery of new physics" including cracking interstellar travel, emerges from stealth with a $58M seed (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View)
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/can-ai-crack-interstellar-travel…
The Travel Date
An inspiring and entertaining travel podcast hosted by Adelaide-based clinical nutritionist, writer, devoted foodie and passionate traveller Angelica-Hazel Toutounji...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-travel-dat…
"Additionally, Russia could be reaching the conclusion that a brief military engagement into NATO territory will have minimal consequences. NATO troops won’t enter Russian territory, while support for Ukraine could be dissolved, driven by Europe’s urgent need to defend against a Russian provocation."
Greener Travel: Why Cut Car-bon Miles? - A journey of 1000 miles begins with 1 step; not to a car please! #podcast #CarFreeDay #transport -
It's easier to travel to a place than it is to document the places I have been.
"An unofficial Cabinet Travel Competition is encouraging secretaries to appear in competitive congressional districts or states ahead of the 2026 midterm elections"
Trump pits Cabinet members against one other for secret points—raising Hatch Act concerns - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-cabinet-2677852802/
Maven Robotics, whose wheeled robots travel up to 10 mph and lift up to 30kg using two arms, emerges from stealth after raising $100M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/maven-robotics-wants-to-steal-your-robot-deployment-de…
Biggest travel tip: Do not buy an international plan with your carrier. Get Airalo or Saily and get a plan where you are going.
Just witnessed someone get ripped off buying a plan with their carrier.
#TIL that #Wikivoyage has a nifty travel map feature! 🗺️
Just log in with your #Wikimedia account on Wikivoyage, open the account menu on the top right, then select “My Travel Map”. You can then check off th…
Route 500 enters service Monday morning (Sunday schedule)!
If you want to be on the very first bus:
The southbound departs Bel Air at 8:00am and reaches Hamtramck (Caniff/Buffalo) at ~8:13.
The northbound departs Larned/Griswold at 8:05am and reaches Hamtramck (Holbrook/Lumpkin) at ~8:33.
How does a Dutch iOS developer travel?
The NSSprinterTrain
I would probably have bought this if it were punctuated correctly.
#amediting
“We live a double life. During the day, I deal with paperwork. At night, I shoot down drones,”
said Oleksandr, a lawyer, standing beside his truck-mounted machine gun in a field outside Kyiv.
“It’s a strange duality. With time you get used to it.”
But warfare in Ukraine evolves at extraordinary speed
and units such as Mriya are struggling to keep up.
Since the summer, Russia has increasingly deployed jet-powered drones that crews say can travel at about 600km/h …
After some travel, back again. This time was North Adams, Minneapolis and Chicago. Today, Marie made biscuits with bacon and egg, tea and coffee. 48 Hour Film Project awards tonight! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/NBmfANzg11SxAuWw8
Solo Season
Explores everything from breakups to glow ups, self-love to solo travel, and all the chaos in between...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/solo-season/
""Dig into our two biggest plane-loading bottlenecks and the potential methods to alleviate this common travel headache.
--
After hours of delay, your flight is finally boarding. But as the line grinds to a halt, you can’t help but think — there must be a faster way to board this plane. Mathematicians have been studying this problem for years, devising and testing a range of different boarding methods. Rachel Yang digs into our biggest plane-loading bottlenecks and potent…
Paris Gard du Nord Train Station Afternoon Piano (2023-09) - Ambient busy big city train station with a talented chap tickling the public piano. #fieldRecording #travel #Paris -
at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata
FAFO
“We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.”
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/29/2026/decline-in-tourism-hits-us-economy
I guess I’m “time to buy a travel bidet” years old now…
The Ceuta moral panic: Spanish sources say that 98% of the mass arrivals have returned (been returned) to Morocco. Of course there was never any way for them to travel to continental Europe from the Spanish colony of Ceuta. Hence my use of the term moral panic.
The Spanish regularisation of migrants was *retrospective* - a word obviously too long to be understood by the European and British far right.
Post originally part of this thread.
Wester Ross, Scotland
Crowned as the “stillest” destination in Inghams’ survey, this remote region in the northwest highlands of Scotland boasts dramatic mountain peaks, deep sea lochs, and pristine coastline.
The region is so remote that Inghams found just 1.6 inhabitants per square kilometre and also found it to have very low light pollution on the Bortle Scale.
It is the perfect dwelling for a diverse range of local flora, fauna and wildlife, including otters and black-t…
@… Continuum and Travelers are criminally underrated time travel shows.
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs puts its travel advice for Spain on yellow: 'special security risks' due to wildfires and regional state of emergency.
Sonnet 050 - L
How heavy do I journey on the way,
When what I seek, my weary travel's end,
Doth teach that ease and that repose to say,
'Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend!'
The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,
As if by some instinct the wretch did know
His rider lov'd not speed being made from thee.
The bloody spur cannot provoke him on,
That sometimes a…
The electro-continent. European policy makers are finally making plans for what was obviously necessary quarter of a century ago. Not nearly fast enough, but the direction of travel is right.
"Europeans have learned one lesson repeatedly: energy security cannot be outsourced."
"Europe makes trillion-euro bet to revive its battered industry"
So, I can't eat any fresh greens when I #travel home to #America next week?
This is the type of advice I used to get when traveling to places like #India or
“He’s been there, done that, seen it all,” Bryan Lee, his spokesman, said.
That is to say, he was jaded.
Yet there is jaded, and then there is a man of means willing to empty his wallet for the momentary thrill of dousing hundreds of strangers with expensive wine.
The final cost for the liquid alone
(125 bottles of Perrier Jouet Grand Brut,
50 bottles of Dom Pérignon Brut Luminus
and five bottles of Dos Hombres Blanco tequila)
amounted to $226,000 an…
Fora, which connects travel agents with travelers and offers agents AI tools, raised a $60M Series D at a $1B valuation led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/ai-powered-travel…
Getting ready for my next trip to the U.K. and have everything sorted thanks to @…. (I might be biased because my partner works there) but I genuinely love using this app to travel. Keeps all of my itineraries and documents in one easy to find place.
Ken Paxton's Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose. (Zach Despart/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-travel-security-costs
http://www.memeorandum.com/261009/p12#a261009p12
Folks who travel with a lot of fragile stuff often: Pelican cases with foam look nice if it's the same equipment each time, but buying new foam inserts for each trip would get expensive fast.
How do you keep things safe if you're reconfiguring each time you hit the road depending on the demands of the event / customer?
Lots of disruption on the train network getting to the London Pattern Club unweaving workshop I'm running..
My key advice for train travel in the UK and Europe - *trust no-one*, especially people in uniform telling you which train to catch. People working for train companies are really great at being confidently incorrect. If you show them conflicting info they will double down.
Instead look for as much info online and on departure boards as you can.
I think I'm goi…
Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
Donald Trump bought between
$1 million and $5 million in debt
issued by SpaceX
just days before the White House announced a new space-travel policy,
the president’s latest financial disclosure form shows.
Two days after purchasing the bonds,
Trump signed a memorandum setting out the new policy,
which is intended to strengthen space transportation,
in part by b…
My wife corrects me. The last time we could travel through Germany without cancellations or major delays and without having to change several times was from Amsterdam to Landquart in Switzerland in early 2024. Since then we faced major delays and/or cancellations every single time. To Switzerland, Vienna, and even to Berlin and Bonn.
Sources: China expands its foreign travel restrictions to include the direct relatives, such as spouses and children, of certain key AI and chip executives (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-28/china…
Greener Travel: Why Cut Car-bon Miles? - A journey of 1000 miles begins with 1 step; not to a car please! #podcast #CarFreeDay #transport -
Q&A with Brian Chesky on Airbnb's plans for agent-to-agent interactions, why chatbots fail at travel e-commerce, the need for an AI-native OS, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/brian-chesky-interview…
Donald Trump is planning to hit the campaign trail for 32 days before the midterm elections.
That would put the president on the campaign trail for more than 94 percent of the time between now and November 3,
effectively placing him at the center of an election cycle in which Republican candidates have increasingly tried to peel away from his influence.
The breakneck pace of the schedule has also spurred health concerns for a president who was recently caught out of breath af…
Hundreds of far-right activists have descended on Portsmouth, where a small boat with 140 asylum seekers on board was intercepted heading towards the Portsmouth coast.
The vessel’s arrival sparked a major response with a helicopter, an aeroplane and lifeboats sent to the scene.
It is thought to be the first time such a boat containing asylum seekers has been brought to Portsmouth
and the first time a large group of anti-migrant protesters have tried to block newly arrived…
London Heathrow Airport Summer Landside Ambient (2025-07) - Ambient busy big holiday time airport nowhere near any aircraft. #fieldRecording #travel #airport -
The war in Iran has now cost U.S. consumers $100 billion in higher energy prices,
and the bill is rising another $1 million about every two minutes,
per a real-time estimate from Brown University as of Monday morning.
Why it matters: Energy inflation shows up across the entire economy, and the recent surge in diesel prices in particular threatens to have a dramatic impact on freight and travel in the weeks and months to come.
I want to meet you.
Right now, I’m traveling across the country and mobilizing voters in battleground races ahead of the most important midterm elections of our lives — and 𝗜’𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝗹-𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲𝘀-𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗽 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝙤𝙧 𝗗𝗖 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿.
If you chip in $25, or any amount, to the DNC today, you’ll be entered to win a trip for you and a friend, travel, and hotel included, to meet me:
Paris Gard du Nord Train Station Afternoon Piano (2023-09) - Ambient busy big city train station with a talented chap tickling the public piano. #fieldRecording #travel #Paris -
After stripping their Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, last month, the Trump administration is making Haitians in the U.S. report to immigration offices to
either get ankle monitors or immediately be deported
In Springfield, Ohio, dozens of Haitians with TPS were called to ICE offices,
fitted with the ankle monitors,
and given instructions not to travel more than 75 miles from their homes.
The Haitian community in the city is about 15,000 strong,
and …
Spanish PM criticises 'selfish' attitude of some EU countries over Ceuta crisis
The Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sšnchez, has hit back at some EU countries for what he described as their
“selfish, polarising and illegal reaction” to the mass border crossings at Ceuta,
as he thanked Morocco for its help in dealing with the crisis.
In a letter to Brussels, he said several European states have chosen to “attack” Spain
and request its temporary exclusion fr…