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Wexford Bus transports us to Gorey and our daughter is waiting to take us the last few miles.
Nearly everything went to plan and there were no serious hiccups thankfully.
The Interrail app supplies some nice statistics. Unfortunately, it doesn’t cover the ferry.
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Closer to home now. Another smooth overnight sailing from Cherbourg to Dublin.
Sunny departure and arrival into typical Dublin grey.
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A busy day in Cherbourg Port
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The works seem to be for a new rail freight terminal. As far as I can tell, the old pedestrian shortcut is gone for good. Hopefully, a new pedestrian route is part of the redevelopment plans.
The sign about the works says they will be complete by the end of June 2024. I don’t think they will make that deadline.
https://portsdenormandie.fr/fr/projets/cherbourg/terminal-de-ferroutage
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On a Sunday, a taxi is the only reasonable option as the bus only runs Monday to Saturday.
Earlier in this thread, I remarked that the Irish Ferries SailRail page had good information. Unfortunately, it’s now a bit out-of-date. The walk to bus isn’t wheeled luggage friendly and it’s a 10 mins walk with no luggage
https://www.irishferries.com/ie-en/Travel-to-France-Specials/Ireland-France-SailRail/
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After a lovely morning in Cherbourg where a nerd like me decides to walk to the ferry terminal to see how feasible it would be with luggage.
Bad news - don’t attempt to walk from Cherbourg Ferry Terminal to Cherbourg Gare SNCF with wheeled luggage. If you’re fit and have a backpack allow at least 45mins. It took me 35mins with no luggage.
The main problem is the pedestrian short-cut is closed due to redevelopment works.
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Arrival into Paris St Lazare at 18:01, 31 hours after leaving home in Gorey.
Taking it easy here too. Next train tomorrow lunchtime.
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Unfortunate French name for a flap-down seat on a train - see highlighted word in screenshot.
I think I’d prefer to stand!
From the website: https://www.maplaceabord.com/maplacelibre
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The taxi driver was lovely too. Took a convoluted route to the train station but explained in English, without prompting, that he was avoiding a a traffic jam. The fare was €10 for 3 people and 3 items of luggage in the boot.
The driver said it’s a flat fare - so €10 regardless of the number of passengers and luggage. It’s 50% more between 19:00 and 07:00 and Sundays. #IrishFerries #GoreyToVienna #SlowTravel #interrail
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On our 14:43 train now to Paris - arriving at 18:01.
Unfortunately, the taxi rank at the ferry terminal was empty when we did make it through passport control and the sign displaying the phone number had disappeared since last year. By the time we found the number for the taxi service time was against us.
On the plus side there is now a weather shelter at the taxi rank and we did meet a lovely German lady that we shared a taxi with.
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The bad news, we missed our train. The good news, it was easy to exchange the tickets (before the original departure) on the Trainline app. The bad news, the exchange cost another €77.90 on top of 50% of the original €76.35 excluding service fees.
The good news, lunch in Cherbourg!
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Wine tasting followed by a G&T and Apéro Spritz. It’s a tough life.
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A long queue for foot passenger check-in today. I guess that’s a good thing.