After my bikepacking trip I will pitch the interrail to my parents. They are so excited about the places I visited but don’t know how or if they will be able to get there. They (me too) don’t like flying and by car it is just too stressful.

Well… you can do it as an older person as well, but you can’t stay in official youth hostels and the private hostels that will allow you to stay have in recent years turned into some fancy “glampacking” party locations that are both relatively expensive and most older person will not like it at all.

The laid back slightly grubby hostel of my youth that made interrailing affordable and where it really didn’t matter what age you were seems to have become a very rare thing.

The times I went Interrailing were among the most formative experiences of my youth and young adulthood. I can only recommend it to anyone who has the chance to go.

My brain wanted to ask what Lego set that was…