"Is your backpack full of dreams?" : readers' Interrail memories
Winning Tip: Planning Gone Wrong in Paris
I still have our 1987 copy of Europe on the train. Simple pen and ink maps that had little basis in reality - much like the planning my friend and I did. Pre-internet, pre-glasnost, pre-midlife indecision, we naively arrived in Paris and filled our paper ticket book with the first destination, Nice, without considering booking a berth, or simply a seat. In July. After desperate visits to the counters trying to get on any train from Paris, we took the last train of the night, north to Amsterdam, and thus did the whole adventure in reverse. The same friend's son is about to embark on his own Interrail adventure. Apparently he has a spreadsheet.Stephen Bowden
Secret Inn, Switzerland
I still have our 1987 copy of Europe on the train. Simple pen and ink maps that had little basis in reality - much like the planning my friend and I did. Pre-internet, pre-glasnost, pre-midlife indecision, we naively arrived in Paris and filled our paper ticket book with the first destination, Nice, without considering booking a berth, or simply a seat. In July. After desperate visits to the counters trying to get on any train from Paris, we took the last train of the night, north to Amsterdam, and thus did the whole adventure in reverse. The same friend's son is about to embark on his own Interrail adventure. Apparently he has a spreadsheet.Stephen Bowden
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