I waited too long to buy my Interrail card, because I didn't realize that it would take so very long to get a physical one over mail. Now my only options are:
- Go to Copenhagen to buy one over the counter.
- Get a #/%#ยค& smartphone, which I do not want, so that I can get a mobile Interrail card. I think my mom has an old one lying around which I could probably use, though I would have to get a new SIM card for it. I don't suppose one could emulate a smartphone on a laptop for this purpose...? Probably not in a way that ties it to a phone number. ETA: My roommate also has an extra phone, which he says I can borrow, so that's an option.
(- There is of course also the option to get train tickets separately, but this is two or three times the cost.)
Irritatingly, I could have easily gone to Copenhagen today to get one, since I've been in southern Sweden for my niece's birthday, except that I didn't have my passport with me, which I would need.
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Er, and on a happier note, I guess this is my announcement that I am at last going on that fannish trip to Scotland which I've been wanting to do since the pandemic began!![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
regshoe and I are going together, and there will be lots of hiking, birdwatching, and going to historically significant locations from Flight of the Heron. Yay! I am also going to visit feroxargentea in England, and spending some time in France with garonne, doing more 18th-century-relevant touristing. \o/
I am doing all traveling by train, since I don't fly for climate reasons, and it's really irritating how you have to go in a sort of U-shape from Sweden to Scotland. Ten or twenty years ago you could have gone by ferry, but this is no longer possible. : ( I guess cheap flights out-competed them. But at least the fannish network provides: I have places to stay overnight in Copenhagen and Paris.
I'll be in London on the 17th of June and the 1st of July, and having some spare time there. So if you have recommendations for things I should do there, or you live in London and would like to have lunch with me or something, do let me know.
- Go to Copenhagen to buy one over the counter.
- Get a #/%#ยค& smartphone, which I do not want, so that I can get a mobile Interrail card. I think my mom has an old one lying around which I could probably use, though I would have to get a new SIM card for it. I don't suppose one could emulate a smartphone on a laptop for this purpose...? Probably not in a way that ties it to a phone number. ETA: My roommate also has an extra phone, which he says I can borrow, so that's an option.
(- There is of course also the option to get train tickets separately, but this is two or three times the cost.)
Irritatingly, I could have easily gone to Copenhagen today to get one, since I've been in southern Sweden for my niece's birthday, except that I didn't have my passport with me, which I would need.
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Er, and on a happier note, I guess this is my announcement that I am at last going on that fannish trip to Scotland which I've been wanting to do since the pandemic began!
regshoe and I are going together, and there will be lots of hiking, birdwatching, and going to historically significant locations from Flight of the Heron. Yay! I am also going to visit feroxargentea in England, and spending some time in France with garonne, doing more 18th-century-relevant touristing. \o/I am doing all traveling by train, since I don't fly for climate reasons, and it's really irritating how you have to go in a sort of U-shape from Sweden to Scotland. Ten or twenty years ago you could have gone by ferry, but this is no longer possible. : ( I guess cheap flights out-competed them. But at least the fannish network provides: I have places to stay overnight in Copenhagen and Paris.
I'll be in London on the 17th of June and the 1st of July, and having some spare time there. So if you have recommendations for things I should do there, or you live in London and would like to have lunch with me or something, do let me know.
