Swift is slow and expensive as hell, the fees can run into 10s of dollars per transaction. SEPA is limited to the EU, not even the official candidate countries have it.
This is mostly but not entirely coincidental. The name München is derived from the word for monk, which would be "monaco" in Italian. Both "monaco" (monk) and "Monaco" (city) ultimately descend from μόνος (Greek for "solitary").
We generally don't, most of the passengers on these trains only go part of the route. Train trips taking 2-3 days (like Moscow to Urals) used to be more common, but flying has become cheaper years ago.
At a previous job, a coworker got a new Mac but still wanted to use Linux. He spent several days setting the system up, and eventually got it up and running smoothly.
Except that the calendar on the lock screen somehow was in Romanian, it resisted all attempts to change the language, and he never got around to fixing it. :)
> I got the impression that I could continue riding to Amsterdam in the same fashion if wanted to.
You definitely could. A couple of years ago I've actually done a trip like that, Rotterdam to The Hague to Amsterdam (then onwards to Amersfoort) — it was about 150 km long, and all of that was on designated bike paths and lanes.
It's really arrogant how you assume you understand GP's situation better than themselves.