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What a short stop!
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Loren Pechtel
2017-08-04 00:54:15 UTC
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I was hoping to see familiar stuff in Shanghai but we had only one
little stop! And the whole Beijing leg was irrelevant as it was
non-elim and everyone was given tickets on the same train anyway. It's
not a sleeper train, either, and while some trains have lay-flat seats
(if they had a high enough ticket class) the train in question does
not.
Frosty
2017-08-04 15:44:26 UTC
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Post by Loren Pechtel
I was hoping to see familiar stuff in Shanghai but we had only one
little stop! And the whole Beijing leg was irrelevant as it was
non-elim and everyone was given tickets on the same train anyway. It's
not a sleeper train, either, and while some trains have lay-flat seats
(if they had a high enough ticket class) the train in question does
not.
TAR Canada reference?
Loren Pechtel
2017-08-04 19:52:00 UTC
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Post by Frosty
Post by Loren Pechtel
I was hoping to see familiar stuff in Shanghai but we had only one
little stop! And the whole Beijing leg was irrelevant as it was
non-elim and everyone was given tickets on the same train anyway. It's
not a sleeper train, either, and while some trains have lay-flat seats
(if they had a high enough ticket class) the train in question does
not.
TAR Canada reference?
Yup, that's the only race running at present.

Train (provided tickets) Beijing -> Shanghai, Go to a restaurant,
recite a Chinese phrase learned on the previous leg, then fly off to
Bangkok.

Beijing was a continued episode, they were all given tickets on the
same train (understandable, getting enough walk-up tickets for the
race might have blown up badly, not to mention the language issues
with getting walk-up tickets. I can easily imgaine some teams getting
on the slow train rather than the fast one), that made Beijing
effectively moot.
Frosty
2017-08-04 20:01:53 UTC
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Post by Loren Pechtel
Post by Frosty
Post by Loren Pechtel
I was hoping to see familiar stuff in Shanghai but we had only one
little stop! And the whole Beijing leg was irrelevant as it was
non-elim and everyone was given tickets on the same train anyway. It's
not a sleeper train, either, and while some trains have lay-flat seats
(if they had a high enough ticket class) the train in question does
not.
TAR Canada reference?
Yup, that's the only race running at present.
Train (provided tickets) Beijing -> Shanghai, Go to a restaurant,
recite a Chinese phrase learned on the previous leg, then fly off to
Bangkok.
Beijing was a continued episode, they were all given tickets on the
same train (understandable, getting enough walk-up tickets for the
race might have blown up badly, not to mention the language issues
with getting walk-up tickets. I can easily imgaine some teams getting
on the slow train rather than the fast one), that made Beijing
effectively moot.
Goes without saying i cant watch TAR Can due to the time period they
shoot it. Canada is very muddy in spring especially here.

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