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"What if you reached three European capitals in one week using ferries and trains?"
There is something quietly mad about stepping off a ferry in Holyhead, still half-asleep, knowing that by Friday you will have stood in three different capital cities under three different skies. You eat cheap pastries on station platforms, you share a sleeper carriage with strangers who become friends by dawn, and you realise that Europe is far smaller and far wilder than any geography class ever suggested. The version of yourself who boards that ferry in Dublin Port is not quite the same one who eventually comes home. That gap is the whole point.
Emer (30), Sligo — works in HR for a hotel group, keeps a sourdough starter she's named Gerald
I booked the Interrail pass at half eleven on a Tuesday night after one glass of wine too many, and by Thursday morning I was standing on the deck of the Ulysses watching Holyhead come out of the grey.
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