Low-cost midlife crisis

We didn’t take any trains on day 3 and I don’t really want to bore you with “what we did in Prague” content, so instead I’ll fill in a bit of the back story.

Rather than some kind of midlife crisis* this trip really came about because a few months ago I learned that to celebrate the 50th anniversary of interrail, there was a week long offer when interrail tickets were half price. You had to buy them in that window, but you could start using them any time in the next year. For an adult (in this case over 27s) this amounted to a ticket price of just over €300. I think under 27s were around €225. I discussed this with my other half, and our two daughters, and my younger daughter’s friend was quickly added to the discussion, and unusually (but necessarily) quickly we made the decision to buy them.

Obviously in the times of Covid, this may have turned out to be a bit of a risk (and it may still be one, with numbers again on the rise), but it was after we went for this option that I became aware of the chaos in Europe’s airports this summer, so it seems like we chose well.

*I presume most midlife crises are unconscious and people don’t actually say to themselves “hmm, I think it’s time for my midlife crisis. Guess I’ll buy a Porsche” so obviously it may still be one, as much as I tell myself it was a rational decision.