Nearly two years ago, Ottawa appointed Mathieu Grondin as the city's Nightlife Commissioner in an effort to inject some energy back into its atrophied nightlife. Largely the sentiments towards this position have changed very little in the years since, with...

This year, I discovered viaduct , a service to track train rides. Since then, I've been tracking my train rides and I've imported most of the train rides I could remember or had some registry of. They now came up with a "wrapped" of this year and it's quit...

It is no secret that I enjoy tracking things, whether it is books I read, things I watched, or places I have been. When I travel, I track my flights, and that is, as far as I know, something a lot of people do. It also means that there are many tools out t...

Uff, I wanted to write this before the end of August, but I'm still on time. August is over and it's starting to feel a bit like autumn to me. Quite excited, as it will become a bit colder, hopefully, and it's also one of my favorite seasons. Very colorful...

Over the past days, my partner and I did a small trip to Vienna - and also Bratislava. This post is not going to be about the trip and the cities themselves, but about the transport to and from Vienna: the Nightjet. This was our first time trying out night...

Last month, I traveled from The Netherlands 🇳🇱 to Switzerland 🇨🇭 by train. More specifically, I traveled from Eindhoven to Engelberg, which is a small alpine town in the centre of Switzerland. When I wrote this post for the first time, it was m...

In the beginning of last month, I wrote a post about trying out the new payment system for public transit in The Netherlands, OVPay 💳. On it, I mentioned quite a few things regarding different operators. It's been around a month, and I've had the opport...

The Netherlands 🇳🇱 is testing a new payment system for the public transit called OVPay 💳. The gist is that you'll be able to simply check-in and check-out from buses, trams, trains, and every other kind of transit with your debit or credit card, w...