u/Few-Bag6847

was trying to confirm plans with someone when i realized that ONLY US holidays and the German holidays were showing up on my calendar, but were in different colors than they previously were in. i think it happened when my iphone backed up this morning at 5am, but i can’t be sure—i just know this happened in the last 24 hours.

All the events i personally made and ones that i got from my email are just gone.

I’ve done all the tips and tricks from reddit, apple support, you name it (including toggling on and off icloud calendar “use on this iphone” trick) i tried to restore my calendar from iCloud but it didn’t have jack.

I just want to know how this happened so i can prevent it from ever occurring again because i HEAVILY rely on my apple calendar—i have it as a widget on my homescreen AND lock screen and it’s one of my main tools for organization, please, PLEASE let me know if there are any hypotheses for this.

i have icloud plus, but i didn’t have it on for my calendar because i just needed my calendar on my phone, i just toggled it on to try and prevent something like this happening again. but this is just so supremely shitty and i’m just so lost.

US Americans traveling for a wedding who are fairly new to traveling by rail, so excuse the ignorance! We are going in July, and we don't have a concrete idea for numbers yet on a particular leg of our journey (rendezvous and 'homebase' in Liverpool, heading to Bolton, and then many trips to Manchester in the following days, and then, eventually, up to Blackpool, but always back to Liverpool.) Is it best to book the known travel's tickets now and then book the remainder of the group's later? Or just best to do it ALL later?

We're considering the 4 in 8 Freedom of the Northwest Promotion, but are uneasy about spending +£100 per person, unless it really would save money (flitting spontaneously between the aforementioned cities) and afford us the flexibility that we would most likely need. Does it operate similarly to Germany's Deutschlandticket where the ticket is valid on any of the (participating) rail companies throughout the day?

Or is it more worth it to get the Lancashire Day Ranger Promotion? Basically, I'm asking whether paying for something like this is more worth it because it's a fixed day rate versus being at the whims of the booking and pricing gods in and around the day of action, just because I KNOW that people will be leaving me out to dry until the day of for some of these plans LOL.

Since we're going to be making so many train transfers, do the promotion tickets just make sense anyway? Just in case we miss our connections? Or if the first train runs late and into the time for the following train, is your initial ticket still valid on continued journeys?

Would appreciate some local insight, thank you!

Edit: Forgot to mention that we're staying for 4 days, hence the consideration for the 4 in 8 ticket.

the white western male youth turned their eyes towards kazakhstan and mongolia around a year ago, trust the rest of central asia is next. and although having more awareness and appreciation of our culture would be amazing—that’s most-likely not going to happen. just be aware, and when they come to visit along old silk road cities, make sure to scam the hell out of them.