No Hard Feelings

The Great White North. Peace, Love, and Rugby. Loving Christian ❤ 21 year old proud Canadian with a strong German heritage!

[alecsgrg]

Black Forest | ( by Marcel Siebert )

[vintagepales2-blog]

Brussels, Belgium

[shesgota-wayabouther]

Hey, Hello, Hi! My name is Natalie! I’m a 24 year old Canadian, and proud Christian. I love rugby, classical music, singing, The Avett Brothers, Billy Joel, and learning! This is a blog about my life, and all the things I’ve learned, and am still learning about and all the things I’m interested in learning more about! I’m in my second year of university (my second attempt at post secondary school), where I am majoring in Sociology and minoring in Religion (just for fun!). I believe that our lives are not actually about ourselves… I believe we are all in a constant state of learning and evolving to benefit each other, and the minute we stop actively trying to improve ourselves, we loose the point of being human. I love hearing any kind of feedback, or just a friendly hello, so say hi!! 

[shesgota-wayabouther]

Imma Blog!

I joined tumblr back in the hay day of everyone’s weird obsessive twilight phase… Never really thought it would be much of anything except me reposting a bunch of aesthetically pleasing photos, or funny gif sets lol but lately I’ve been feeling the need to write. Write about me, about my life, things i learn that i find super interesting! So Imma blog! I don’t actually know if anyone will end up reading my blog posts.. but at least they’ll be out there and I’ll hopefully have fun doing it! Thanks for reading <3

[shesgota-wayabouther]

I’ve also recently gotten into embroidery and I’m having a lot of fun with it! They’re not perfect, but I like doing it, so I’ll be sharing my creations with you all as well!

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You may think you’re happy but you’ll never be Angela-Merkel-reacting-to-Mario-Götze-scoring-against-Argentina h a p p y

[theoppositeofadults]

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives dressed up as Clark Kent/Superman

[findmomo]

[milamai]

Good place for morning coffee

[dsxsbx]

Schloss Drachenburg by Johannes Hulsch

[morethanthegardenofeden]

Raoul De Chagny: Look, E-Erik. Let's just agree to say "I'm sorry" for Christine's sake. On the count of three, one, two, three...

Both: [silence]

Raoul: Now, see, I'm just disappointed in both of us.

[canadianstereotypes]

When they bring Roll-Up back for Canada 150

[mapsontheweb]

A map of about every primary passenger railway in the USA for 2016, commuter rail included.

[eddus]

Surely there are more trains lines about than this ?!

[lostinmiami]

Nope. We’re animals. I’ve only trailed by train twice in the U.S., and it was the same line, once DC to Philadelphia, and once DC to NYC for work once I discovered the train was two hours faster than flying and cabbing back into NYC.

[eddus]

I do forget though that you guys fly everywhere and trains might not be practical. I live on an island the size of one of your states !

[merseytart]

Fun fact: the busiest railway station in America (Penn Station in New York City) gets fewer passengers than Liverpool Central.

[sebpatrick]

I knew the US had a much less extensive rail infrastructure than us, but bloody hell, the fact that there are ENTIRE STATES that literally don’t have passenger rail is madness.

I’d still love to travel on it some time, mind.

[iandsharman]

Just imagine the jobs you could create by building a decent railway system!

[dorksidefiker]

Behold, the end result of graft and political corruption.

[fandork]

I had no idea most of the US had no regional lines? Like, I live in tiny little MA with one of those clusters of red. Does everybody else have to DRIVE???

[burritosong]

yes. we drive. and it’s terrible.

[fandork]

D: This is actually distressing.

[burritosong]

to be fair some cities do have good bus systems

but….yeah.

[ahiddenkitty]

what the shuddering fuck?  That’s IT?!  

[kaza999]

actually we used to have a lot more, but as far as i’m aware i’m pretty sure the car companies bought a lot of railways and then destroyed them to force people to buy cars

[anarchapella]

Also some of those states that don’t have rails also have more cows than people.

Also our trains are slow and it’s usually much faster to drive than to take a train. We don’t have those speed rail things.

[darthflake]

WAIT WHAT? THAT IS ALL?

[buchergenuss32]

There used to be more (map of train tracks 1870 & 1890), but, as @kaza999 pointed out, alot of it was destroyed on purpose by General Motors in the firsty half of the 1900s to, ahem, pave the way for the primacy of the car.  And, since then, any investment in rail infrastructure (or any infrastructure at all, for that matter) has been opposed on ideological grounds by the conservative wing.

[official-german-translationen]

When you suddenly understand Sheldon’s train enthusiasm

[allthingsgerman]

And then there’s Europe:

And because that looks a tiny bit cluttered (and because we’re a German blog), here’s a railway map of Germany:

In red are the high speed InterCityExpress lines, blue are the InterCity lines and the grey ones are smaller regional lines.

And for Americans who don’t know how large Germany is: It is half the size of Texas.

[official-german-translationen]

Consider that this map does not show local lines, for example: This is Hamburg

This is Berlin

This is Cologne

And this is Munich

(Aesthetic.)

[etothevictory]

Munich’s network deadass has more lines than the entire state of MA

[ithelpstodream]

[daemonysh]

This is too much adorableness <3<3<3

[petermorwood]

I’ll reblog this every time I see it, because there’s something about burly beardy bikers giving help and companionship to a small hurt kitten that makes the world a little bit better.

[i-long-to-travel-the-world]

hazlindaelina:El Born, Barcelona 

[misswallflower]

[mylovebythesea]

My hopeless romantic says yes but my independent woman says no