Over the holidays I went to an island in the North Sea called “Sylt”. Its an island like no other I’ve been on before, where the entrance fee is nearly 70EUR if you’re driving a car. The short ride to the island has no bridge for cars, but has couple of train tracks instead where you get to pay for the luxury of sitting in your car while a train totes you a few kilometers towards the island. Not sure where the logic in that is, but it sure does bring in some money for someone (it was actually built in 1927, so I can understand why no one would want to spend money to build an expensive bridge when you’ve got a perfectly good train connection … maybe that’s what they’re saving up for).

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