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Europe by rail - 10 days - feasible?Interest forums / Travel on a shoestring | ||
OK, so I'm hoping to go to a few coutnries by rail after my semester in Rome ends. I can only stay for two weeks tops so i'm thinking 10-day InterRail Pass... Now, I have to get back into Rome for my flight back to the States - that's impossible to change. Is it feasible to do Zagreb (maybe), Vienna, Prague, Munich, Paris, and Nice OR Marseilles and then go back down into central Italy in only 10 days? I mean clearly I'd end up sleeping on the trains, on the move all the time, so it would mean only one day tops in each city. But... is it feasible? Anyone know how much it might cost (museum entrance fees, a quick bite to eat, etc.) overall for this loop? | ||
Do you want to spend your ten days looking at 'Europe' through a dirty train window? If so, go ahead with your itinerary. If not, ditch the rail pass idea, shorten your itinerary and get off the train and explore a little. Sure, it's feasible. Most things are in this day and age. Advisable? Probably not. | 1 | |
Yes A train pass will not do much good, if you don't give these towns a reasonale three days in each place. The point of travel is not really just to say you've been there. Go slow, enjoy, and learn something by talking with folks at leisure in cafés too. Things that can't be learned from books. Unless you research for weeks. THE MOST VALUABLE TRAVEL IS DONE WITH THE EARS. | 2 | |
ONE objection to us yanks is;"They only talk to the people they travel with." fix that. | 3 | |
yeah i'm actually cutting it down to Vienna and Bratislava, Prague, Berlin, and Paris, and probably going to do 3 days for Vienna and Bratislava together, and the rest: 2 days each. If I can switch my flight schedule to come out of Paris into Rome for my flight back, I'm all set. That's 11 days and not all those days would be spent traveling anyway. | 4 | |
Yes, it's better but it still means three days or so out of your eleven days spent on travel. Bratislava - Prague takes about 4 hours on the train. Add an hour either side for transferring from/to your accommodation, checking out and in, unpacking, and so on. That's a six-hour journey door-to-door. If your train departs at 11.00 a.m. that's practically a full day on travel. The same applies to Prague - Berlin: the train journey takes about 4.5 - 5 hours. Berlin - Paris. Have you checked the journey times? It's a minimum of 8.5 hours on the train. So that's a complete full day on travel unless you take the overnight train which will cost you more. That leaves you with eight days to visit four cities. Have you included your final departure day as one of your eleven days? | 5 | |
You even write in a panic! You're going to need quality rest, which doesn't happen on trains. You need a day or twoo off, to digest the constant sensory overload. Including the new turns of fraise. Takes brain work and more questions. Have you bp'ed to Europe b4? | 6 | |
Hey, | 7 | |
popperslist.com You're not Seeing Europe. You're scanning. Talk With any European who will. You'll be surprised how many lived stateside for years. But traveller's Law #1; | 8 | |
well, the itinerary i have right now has cut out rail pass altogether. so i've scrapped the europe by rail idea because it would be insane to do in the time i have do u seasoned travelers think that's a better schedule? | 9 | |
So you've got your ticket to the states now? Why so soon? Sad. | 10 | |
Much, much better. A very well designed itinerary. I especially like the night train from Berlin to Paris - very wise. | 11 | |