I know we close questions with WANTA but gosh, I wish I had a travel agent helping to put this together :) but now I am done with planning and plane tickets. Still need hotels and train tickets but that's easy.

This is the paste.kde.org/pxc0exnan summary of the trip...

only 9 cities in 17 days and I can read the signs so this will be a walk in the park, I did 7 in 7 in Israel + Jordan this January, that was mad.

Would webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/95937/… this be adequate on travel SE as well? Instead?

I think there is a hidden gem in first posts + late answers here

Site is very slow for me but does exactly what the OP wants (even better IMHO)

Also I still think this Q should be closed as unclear (see the highly voted comments), we are very much speculating there: travel.stackexchange.com/q/74039/32134

OP might as well have had a voucher for a train ticket but never made it a train ticket. As is this Q is not answerable IMHO.

/me climbs on the ryanair bandwagon

@mts did you look at that walking thing in that link?

I wasn't sure what the connection to the question was and whether it was spam really

@chx you should provide a gcmap link

there's an interactive map further down the link which boils down to what the OP wants

But you need to give it multiple start points

or do you mean just overlaying the maps?

I think the OPs intention is to overlay manually multiple maps

that's what I would do

but as far as I can see the scripts are there as well, so you might be able to somehow write code for that first option as well

Right. I see now. It does look very nice

One of the things I did when editing travel.stackexchange.com/questions/74212/… was explain what a maiko henshin studio was. I don't think that that change is really useful, apart from satisfying the whims of the closevoters. I can see that the question might be confusing to someone who hadn't heard of maiko henshin studios before, but if they hadn't heard of them, they wouldn't be in a good position to answer the question.

@AndrewGrimm I didn't understand, but I didn't vote to close either

Nominated for reopening

Right, but I didn't

:)

@Berwyn Ok, cool.

I really don't like closing questions as unclear. Obviously someone like you would come back to get it reopened, but in the majority of cases I think it just means that the OP just goes somewhere else

I'll vote to reopen as well, but why don't you include a link to explain to that majority of us who has no clue what you are talking about

I can share your pain, my aperitivo question has not been understood by many either

not sure I agree on closing as unclear, often enough it leads just to speculation (UK visa, this train Q that I want closed: travel.stackexchange.com/q/74039/32134)

so if OP does not bother to come back and clarify it is not my bad

But sometimes all it takes is to expand the answer a bit

"How do I do X?" - A: "if you meant this kind of X, then you do Y, however if you meant this kind, you do Z"

sometimes yes. I was referring to these particular cases ;)

surely some other people have travelled from Paris to Stuttgart by rail and can guess what the document was?

so I didn't vote to close that either as I think it's answerable

albeit with a few "ifs"

While googling for information on maiko henshin, I came across this page in Persian: hamgardi.com/place/47047

but the OP could have taken any kind of document

And now I've come across some men who did a geisha makeover: nomadicboys.com/geisha-makeover-tokyo

clearly it was not a valid ticket and he calls it a voucher

which likely would have been needed to be transformed into a ticket before travel

but we should at least know what type of voucher it was

also I am not sure whether I would really advise the OP to ignore the claim

but that is another thing

me neither

I've traveled on french-german trains a fair bit, but never had a freakin "voucher" so I have no idea

railplus.co.nz/specials/evoucher-collection-guide-for-agents

Bet there's enough info there to answer it

"For travel on Britrail & Germany (DB) you will be required to print off your tickets at the station prior to your departure."

could be. but could also be something else

There's a pdf for DB further down too

personally it bothers me that OP has been online plenty over the last few days but never bothered to come back and clarify

Ah. I never notice that

It would be good if they could be flagged "you must update this Q before continuing"...

that pdf is for how to retrieve your ticket at german DB vending machines

oh yeah. They wouldn't be in Paris

that's what closing as unclear is for in my eyes. like the question about samurai/geisha dressing photo shoots whatnot

anycase, gotta get working again, rather busy these days

Yeah, me too

cheers!

Cheerio

And it's open :)

Is it just me or are the hidden fees of LCCs getting much worse?

I can't remember the last time I used one

I killed the August answerathon meta due to a seeming lack of interest

but if anyone is keen, let me know

It's too hot to answer questions

I really think we should be focusing on tacking that unanswered list. I've still kept 3 active bounties at a time during July on unanswered questions and about 2/3 of them get answered, and I encourage others to do the same

What's more important, more good questions, or fewer unanswered ones?

Neither. Good questions with good answers is the best.

We have a lot of good questions lacking answers, some of which just require some research

Can you sort unanswered questions by views?

Maybe there's a data.SE query to do something similar. Like unanswered questions with highest ratio of views/time

@MarkMayo For example, the question you just answered had 57 views. It's not like there are horders of people searching for an answer about ski touring in Patagonia, so perhaps it's not going to be high on the priority list for a bounty?

there are 160+ others that you can choose from with far more views if that's your priority for answering

It might feed into my priority

our oldest unanswered question is a year and a half, on a site that is over 5 years old. I'm quite certain we could reduce the 160+ questions down to 50ish without too much effort

as most of them would be answerable with some reading

Given what the oldest question is I don't think many people care to answer one about 2 Indian passports.

I get the aversion to closing questions as unclear, and sometimes it is possible to give a more general answer that's helpful, but if the OP can't be bothered to come back and provide essential information, why should someone else take the time to try to answer what might be the wrong question?

intellectual satisfaction :)

@Berwyn also general OCDness (same reason I edit posts) :p

OCD? Us? Never!

@MarkMayo got 40 votes in today, but had to look in older Q to find things worth upvoting, not enough new activity for 40 today.

you must've only started an hour ago

I looked at the stats not long ago

About an hour and a half, have now read most new Q on Yahoo Answers (those categories I still look at that is,) and should be in bed as soon as possible.

Been out for dinner, as usual on a Tuesday.

Was in early, it can be an hour later in which case I do not switch on the computer.

Good work!

I would call it addiction ;)

:)

Better get going, 7 AM will be too early.

Good night

g'night

@Berwyn: gcmap.com/…

Related to the meta post: how did @MarkMayo get his Peer Pressure badge?

is there a dark past that's been hidden in the shadows? ;)