Analysis

Price discrimination in car hire Belgium-Germany

28.07.2014 8 comments

I want to rent a car in Brussels for 4 days at the end of August, for a trip to Germany for Rhein on Skates. The round trip will be about 900km, with 2 drivers. We need a small car – Polo or Clio or something like that. I have a […]

Analysis, China

The evolution of bicycles in Beijing

02.07.2014 0 comments

Beijing is a city known for its bikes. Despite the Chinese obsession with the car, and the city’s smog problem, cycling still seems to work quite well in China’s capital city. Most large streets have cycle paths on the sides, used by regular cyclists and a variety of transport cycles. […]

Analysis, China

The Great Wall of China at Shanhaiguan

02.07.2014 2 comments

I have just returned from 10 days spent in Beijing. One day the friend there I was staying with and I planned a trip to the Great Wall of China, and decided to make the journey to Shanhaiguan, 300km east of Beijing, where the wall meets the sea for a […]

Analysis

Non-Schengen (and non-French law?) compliant border control at Perpignan, 31st May, 1106

31.05.2014 10 comments

Three officers of the French Police Nationale boarded TGV 9702 at Perpignan at around 11am on 31st May, reaching my seat at 1106. The TGV was still stationary in Perpignan at this time, due to an obstacle on the tracks further north that held the train in the station approximately 30 […]

Analysis

Commission replies to my Rzepin Schengen complaint

13.05.2014 2 comments

Back on 11th March I documented an interesting incident at the Polish-German border between Rzepin and Frankfurt(Oder) where a Polish border guard demanded my passport and would not accept a driving license as I was about to cross the border. For me this crossed the border between what is an […]

Analysis

Non-Schengen compliant border control between Rzepin and Frankfurt (Oder), 11th March 2014, 2156

12.03.2014 9 comments

3 police officers or border guards, 2 Polish and 1 German as far as I could tell (the one who spoke to me was Polish) boarded train EC 40, the Warszawa – Berlin express, at Rzepin on 11th March 2014. I was in the front carriage of the train, where […]