DanyNunes
Traveller
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Posted 10 years ago
Hallo Dudes :)
Me and my girlfriend are planning a interrail trip in the end of this summer, we start from Stuttgart - Padova- Sarajevo- Beograd - Transylvania - Stuttgart
But i'm having some difficulties to plan this route.
Stuttgart to Padova perfekt!!
From Padova to Sarajevo, the best option that the timetable from the site give us is going back to Villach(Austria) and then Zagreb and Sarajevo. (hier is not a big deviation)
But from Sarajevo to Beograd send us again back to Zagreb and then Beograd.
Beograd to Timisoara(Romenia) the timetable send us to Budapest and then to Timisoara!!
So is like we are always up and down.
This is because it gets less time with this routes??
But is possible passing from one country to another, like Bosnia- Serbien- Romenia? because i can see in the interailmap that there is trains between the countries, but the timetable doesn't give us this options!!
So if someone can help us to figure out how this works, and which are our possibilities!!
Thank you in advance :)
nltrainer
Traveller
1405 comments
frankly and bluntly: an IR is a bad buy for this routing. Be polite: already in basic school I had to learn to write XYZ and me, not reverse.
IR is bad, becse you mainly want to use it in countries with hardly any or very bad trains. You may be misled by thinking its all the same like in DEutschland, or those rail-propagandists who never tell the whole truth. Or you could have read a proper guidebook for the Balkans.
BUS is the main means for peope who have no car to travel in these parts of the world. Most buses come from DE as 2nd hand Mercedes in fact. For SJ-BG there are hourly buses, also 1 overnite, from the SERB part of SJ. BG-Tim can be done, with persistance and luck (the railcar is not brok that day) by 3-4 local trains, but again a bus is much quicker and easier. In ROM you must REServe any train trip and often pay extra-local fares are much lower, even lower as with BC50 on DB. So you must make loads of KMs to have IR pay off-and trains do not run that fast there.
Its impossible to tell/explain how you got those planned times, as you did not give the hint which site you used. On bahn.de you get the best-but ANY site in this whole world can only spew out what someone has bothered to put in. It may be carefullness as Serbije has been very badly hit by floods this spring-destroying also many raillines. In general many railroads are state-owned and strike-prone institutions who are not for the customer, but only to give some low-paid jobs to those loyal to the regime. Young people tend to lack the experience to even realise that not anything in this world is on www.