{"id":4849,"date":"2025-08-11T10:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/?p=4849"},"modified":"2025-08-11T10:58:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:58:47","slug":"at-least-wool-is-warm-when-wet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/at-least-wool-is-warm-when-wet\/","title":{"rendered":"At least wool is warm when wet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Didn’t get a great night’s sleep last night in the hostel. One person’s breathing cut right through my ear plugs. The hostel also had something like servers in a rack. The whine of the fans pervaded the hostel.<\/p>\n

The weather forecast called for rain between 1 pm and 5 pm, with check-in for the ferry starting at 5 pm. I spent some time last night searching for items of interest in Helsinki to visit in the morning. The farthest was roughly 4 km away. I loaded up the bicycle to check out, and learned I could hang out in the common area after I checked out.<\/p>\n

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After viewing various things, I returned to the hostel to wait out the rain. Overall Helsinki is a city of curves and modern art. I found a display that discussed the newness of Helsinki, a city with less history than other parts of Europe. That said, they charge a lot for everything! 2 pm arrived with no rain. The forecast had shifted to have rain during the loading window. I headed out to wait at the ferry, to be as close as possible, and dreading the part of the loading process of waiting in a line of cars for up to a couple hours, unsheltered.<\/p>\n

In the end, no rain fell, and I boarded the ferry without incident. Now being an “experienced” overnight ferry traveler, I had arranged my gear load so I only needed to pull one pannier, and leave the rest on the bicycle. Upon reaching my adorable “piccolo” small room, I did the usual, setting up a clothes line and washing my clothes.<\/p>\n

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Only to then realize I hadn’t brought an additional shirt with me! The ferry had departed, which locked the cargo compartment. I force-dried the shirt I had just washed by rolling it in each of the two towels provided.<\/p>\n

The trip from Stockholm was 15\/16 hours. The ferry did not have much lounge space as most everyone had a cabin. I expected the voyage from Helsinki to Tallinn to take 11 hours (based on departure at 7 pm and arrival time of 6 am), but I experienced a very different trip, and similar to whatever other overnight ferries I’ve taken. People (and their dogs) camped out all over the ferry. On benches. Under stairs. In the hallways. I appeared to be in a cabin as the minority. By the time I finished wandering about the ship, my shirt had dried.<\/p>\n

Well that didn’t work out as expected. The ferry arrived in Tallin at 9:30 pm. Those who chose an “overnight” cabin stay on board until the morning, explaining any number of oddities. Everyone else disembarked upon arrival. Well, at least I got plans confused in the correct direction and have a place to stay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Didn’t get a great night’s sleep last night in the hostel. One person’s breathing cut right through my ear plugs. The hostel also had something like servers in a rack. The whine of the fans pervaded the hostel. The weather forecast called for rain between 1 pm and 5 pm, with check-in for the ferry … Continue reading “At least wool is warm when wet”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-touring"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4849"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4875,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions\/4875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}