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Introducing Myself
Hello everyone. I am Rachel and I am about to embark on my first ever Interrail trip! I am 53 years old and will be travelling solo. Travelling like this has always appealed to me yet I have never had the opportunity. This year however the interrail trip is solving a problem for me. The…
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Packing – what worked and what didn’t
As this was my first interrail trip I took a while to consider how the packing would work. I’m usually quite slapdash about packing and just fling things in a suitcase. But this time I felt the challenge of keeping things to a minimum. 4 weeks around Europe – summer weather (whatever that means!) What…
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Traveling alone
Before my interrail trip, I had done many short trips alone, a number of international ones semi-alone (on my own but joining a group tour) and many trips with my children as the lone adult. But I had never done a month long trip by myself and I anticipated that there was potential to be…
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Staying in hostels
This was the part of my trip that I was not sure about. I had never stayed in a hostel even when I was younger so I didn’t really know what to expect. I am certainly not a ‘youth’ anymore so there was that too. However, as a solo traveler I could imagine that not…
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The end of the trip
In the end I went: …and I returned to London on Tuesday. Total 30 days. I return to my own home in Bangkok next Tuesday/Wednesday and back to work the week after. It was a very successful trip and I enjoyed every day. I wasn’t lonely and this blog played a large part in that.…
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Gembloux, Ardennes and gorgeous Belgium
After traveling from Bruges and changing in Brussels, I was greeted with a big smile and a hug from Colette at Gembloux station. Colette is an old friend from Bangkok who moved back to her hometown in Belgium 5 years ago. When she read of my journey, she got in touch and invited me to…
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Salzburg Hostel
The thing about hostels is that they’re all different. Obviously I guess! Anyhow, the YoHo Hostel in Salzburg is nice. The rooms are bigger than some and include spacious lockers and a washbasin within the room. Key card entry to all rooms and lockers. Space is helpful when you need to get your stuff out…
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Bruges
After traveling on the night train from Linz, I was thrilled to be meeting up with Chris and Aimee in Brussels and we travelled 1 hour to Bruges together. The train was packed and some were standing – the first such train this whole holiday. Chris and Aimee took advantage of the ‘Duo Ticket’ 2…
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Casual day in Linz
I arrived in Linz around lunchtime but my sleeper train wasn’t due until 9pm so I had 9 hours to fill. In fact I had done this on purpose: instead of returning back to Vienna for the train, I thought it would be fun to hang out in a new place for the day. Linz…
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Taking it easy
When I arrived in Salzburg I was not as interested in things as I thought I would be. I put this down to fatigue and took it easy on the first day. However after a walk around town and after buying the Innsbruck card, I became interested and motivated to see things. Having the Innsbruck…
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Ljubljana hostel – Ibis Styles ‘The Fuzzy Log‘
I chose this hostel as it was 4 minutes from the train station and also 3-4 minutes from the old town. This location worked superbly. I was upgraded on arrival due to overbooking. However I don’t think I mentioned that I was subsequently downgraded. The end of the first full day after my mad mountain…
Rachel’s Interrail Adventures 