{"id":420,"date":"2008-05-03T18:26:11","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T22:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=420"},"modified":"2008-05-03T18:26:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T22:26:11","slug":"travel-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Travel notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first time I went to Sorsele, where the picture at the head of this page was taken, I flew to Stockholm, took the night train to &Ouml;stersund, and then a bus for six hours up the 45. The next time, I drove myself the whole damn way from Saffron Walden. Last year I was too busy writing about it to go at all. This year I think I have discovered the best way of all: I will fly to Gothenburg, catch the night train up to &Ouml;stersund: eleven and a half hours, with a first-class sleeper all to myself: it even has a shower; and then take the lovely slow toy train up the Inlandsbana<\/em> to Sorsele, which is six hours in much greater comfort than either a bus or a car. What makes this really marvellous is that I don’t have to be rich to do it. The night trains on Swedish railways are not only much nicer than cheap air travel, they are now only a little more expensive. The whole trip comes in at less than £450, and I have found a way to fly from Stansted to Gothenburg that doesn’t require me to enrich MIchael O’L<\/span>eary. It is a little more expensive, though not much if you have, as I will, a bag full of fishing tackle and camera gear, and there’s a change in Berlin, but that seems to me a detour well worth making to get around Ryanair.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first time I went to Sorsele, where the picture at the head of this page was taken, I flew to Stockholm, took the night train to &Ouml;stersund, and then a bus for six hours up the 45. The next … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}