Author

Mara Lindqvist

Mara is one half of Drift. She writes about travel, food, and the small details that make a place feel like somewhere worth staying. She and Soren started this journal as a way of keeping the trips alive a little longer — it turned into something they couldn't stop writing.

View from a train window of a passing rural landscape

April 7, 2026—By

Mara Lindqvist

The Slow Train to Halvern

Soren had found the train on an old regional map. Four hours through the interior, no reservations required, stops at places too small to name. He said it would be fine. It was better than fine.