INTERRAIL 1: OFF WE GO AGAIN

”I’d like to organize a hike to Scotland, on the West Highland way!” ”Ooh! Sounds awesome!” ”I wanna come, too!” ”Hi!” ”Count us in!” //
”So four hikers and hike leader.” ”Or four Hobbits and their Aragorn!” ”You can call me Aragorn from now on!” ”I’ll just write it down here.” ”How do we get to Scotland?” //
”We’re an environmental NGO, therefore we don’t fly.” ”An Interrail ticket might be just the ticket.” //
”Hey, I could go meet my friends in Britain and relatives in Austria while I’m at it.” //
”I’ll take a couple of months of train holiday! Europe, here I come!”

I went to see Mother and Big Brother before I left. ”So, you’re going the day after tomorrow?” ”Yep.” //
”How’s your packing going?” ”I haven’t even started yet.” //
”Kati couldn’t have packet yet, she has to pack everything on top.” ”This is not going to go away anytime soon…”

We took a ferry from Turku to Stockholm. //
”We’ll be travelling to Copenhagen in the first class of the train.” ”I see.” ”The tickets included an on-board breakfast.” ”I wonder what it’ll be like?” //
”And here you go.” ”Thank you.” ”A fascinating box.” //
”There’s yogurt in here!” ”And a tiny little bag of granola!” //
”A bread roll!” ”And cheese and lettuce!” //
”Cherry marmalade!” ”I’ve got apricot marmalade!” //
”A boiled egg!” ”Apple juice!” ”We should have made this into an unboxing video.” ”I go get tea.”

”We’re finally here.” ”That was a long way alright.” ”Now that’s an interesting clock.” //
”Yeah, it’s lacking the hands!” ”I guess it’s nothing o’clock then.” //
”Maybe we’ve died and entered the great beyond.” ”Perhaps.” //
”Remember the Valhalla mist we saw from the bridge in Denmark?” ”?” //
”This is it. That’s where we’ve ended up.” ”Ah, indeed.”

Jatkuu… // To be continued…

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien