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"What if your bed for the night used to run on rails?"
There is something genuinely mad about lying in bed listening to rain on the roof, knowing the very walls beneath you once rattled through Irish countryside at full speed. A converted carriage strips away the noise of ordinary life and replaces it with birdsong, candles and the kind of quiet you forgot existed. You will sleep better than you have in months, wake up somewhere beautiful — Wicklow hills, a Clare meadow, Donegal Atlantic air — and wonder why you ever settled for a plain hotel room.
Gráinne (38), Tralee — secondary school art teacher, restores old clocks as a hobby
My sister sent me a link to a converted railway carriage in Wicklow and I thought she was having me on.
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