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Flixbus in Warsaw
[edit]What major international cities can you get to from Warsaw by Flixbus?(or any coach agency if you please) Brickguy276 (talk) 20:09, 8 September 2025 (UTC)
- You can check on https://global.flixbus.com/bus/warsaw. HerrGutmannsWiki (talk) 09:14, 9 September 2025 (UTC)
Traveling to San Marino
[edit]What type of culture should I find in San Marino? How did San Marino had an cultural influence on United States? Does San Marino have a travel passport? ~2025-57391-3 (talk) 19:20, 10 September 2025 (UTC)
- Sammarinese culture is broadly similar to Italian culture. I've heard it has a bit more emphasis on freedom.
- The only significant influence I know of on the United States is as a proof of concept for a democratic, republican form of government: San Marino had been electing its leaders for centuries before the United States was established. Abraham Lincoln said that San Marino "has by its experience demonstrated the truth, so full of encouragement to the friends of Humanity, that Government founded on Republican principles is capable of being so administered as to be secure and enduring" (more here).
- Yes, like all countries, San Marino issues passports to its citizens for travel. —Granger (talk · contribs) 21:24, 10 September 2025 (UTC)
Did Richard Branson really charter and sell seats on a plane on a whim?
[edit]Richard Branson has told on podcasts and in a book that he first got the idea to go into the airline business after a flight he was on aged 28 was delayed and he decided to walk to the back of the airport, find a plane to charter, and then sell tickets on it to other people delayed on his flight.
This seems implausible, both to charter a plane so quickly but especially to be able to sell tickets to random strangers with no business or infrastructure. But it is repeated on the Virgin website and other places.
Do we know if it is true?
~2025-65635-7 (talk) 01:07, 19 September 2025 (UTC)
- Branson started his music business (Virgin) when he was 20 in 1970, so it not so implausible. He had a business, but it didn't do travel at that point and there was a lot less red tape in the 1970s. This account says that he chartered the plane by phone, and as he was stuck on an island the charter may not have been that quick but still quicker than waiting maybe days for the airline to sort things out. The $39 he charged for the seats is about $200 in today's money. AlasdairW (talk) 14:22, 19 September 2025 (UTC)