{"id":4724,"date":"2025-08-04T09:30:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/?p=4724"},"modified":"2025-08-05T09:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:30:14","slug":"yes-theres-a-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/yes-theres-a-ferry\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, there’s a ferry"},"content":{"rendered":"

We got up reasonably early, and cycled over to the ferry pier. About 3 hours early. OK, so we overachieved; the office wasn’t even open. We rode back into town to wait in a local coffeehouse.<\/p>\n

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Big ferries are their own adventure. Cars line up a couple of hours in advance. When the ferry docks, cars pour out at an incredible pace, and load just as fast. Typically, regardless of how late a cyclist arrives, they move to the front of the line and load first, with a wave of cars following right behind. The compressed few days of ferries from Gotland > Stockholm, and then the same day (technically across two days) Stockholm > Helsinki, only the next day (again, across two days) of the ferry to Tallinn will be a lot of travel chaos. I look forward to that being in my past.<\/p>\n

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A quiet several hour ferry ride brough us to Gotland. After some confusion off the ferry (and Linda getting trapped in a roundabout) we found the way to our apartment in Visby, where we will stay for the next few days, visiting the Medieval Week festival.<\/p>\n

In the evening, we walked halfway around the wall surrounding the town.<\/p>\n

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