The (poorly rendered CGI) shots of Istanbul are... Completely off. If this is supposed to be Sirkeci Terminal, it does not (and never did) look like that at at all (no domes, for one), and you definitely would not be able to see Hagia Sophia from it (leaving aside the fact that Hagia Sophia itself is oriented in the…

“O brave new world,
That has such people in’t.”

The money would certainly have been wire transferred, if it were not for a tiny detail: the banking embargo against Iran...

Is it no fully implemented yet? On mine, I just have to look for a weather card with the search app, make the card full screen, click on the menu at the top right of the screen and it’s there.

Libraries actually subscribe to the service, if I’m not mistaken. The good thing, though, is that if you connect at a hotspot with the app or your account on the website, you get a week of unlimited reading, renewable at will. You can also keep the issues downloaded on the app beyond that!

I was thinking that these trains looked very Swiss, and sure enough, the studio behind it (and its predecessor Train Fever) is apparently from Schaffhausen!

I also just discovered that you can create playlist folders, under the file menu, by right-clicking in the playlists, or simply ctrl+shift+n. It might have been obvious to a lot but I somehow completely missed it! Incredibly handy to sort out your playlists, you can nest them and even listen to a whole folder at the…

Well, depending on where you live, a gate can be a street: https://goo.gl/maps/FMsDoVTaP…

The town is called Basle in the article, but its name is generally written as Basel nowadays. It's in Switzerland, as the "Helvetic" in the name of the book might suggest.

The English spelling, complicated? Blimey, it's nothing compared to French.

It's Greedo.

I saw this one IRL, since I live and study near the museum where the Jacquet Droz automata are kept, in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The region was (and still is) famous for its watch and clock-making industry, and many wonderful pieces are kept in our museums...

The best one, in my opinion.