Angry old woman. Aspiring RIPTA board member, fascinator wearing cyclist, storyteller/poet; distributed systems dev. @marie.tech’s wife. PVD via OAK,BOS&PIT. she/her
Rail enthusiast wife Daria
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I’ve been in Amsterdam 80 minutes. Can confirm there are bikes everywhere, just as prophesied
Pittsburgh. It’d be chip-chopped ham. Details matter.
They let you in the sewers.
It smells marginally less bad than you might guess, but only marginally.
I feel like growing up in Pittsburgh as I watched deindustrialization, my neighbors losing jobs, everything crumbling tells me I need to see Charleroi (Belgium) sometime and see how they’re moving forward. Not this trip. Maybe next time.
So what I’m hearing is I should be buying Belgium’s World Cup away jersey while I am here
Saw a translation of croque madame as “woman toast” and anyway I decided to not misgender myself and roll with it.
Rail enthusiast wife Daria
This one’s a reconstruction!
Thursday zen: the buried River Senne, under Brussels, at the Sewer Museum
Brussels has a sewer museum. I have a civil engineering degree.
You can guess how this goes.