ConOfWinterfell
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Posted 9 years ago
Hey :)
After months of deciding, then reading, then roughly planning a route I now finally post here to ask you all for advice :D
I am an 18 y/o male from Germany and would like to see some of western Europe in a month or two (I plan to go in may this year), in the end I'll ask some (probably stupid) questions that are still open after reading all of the standard introductions on railcc. So my route looks like this , I'll add my thoughts to the specific stops directly behind them. Some Info: I dont mind spending 4+ hours on travel days on trains, as long as it isn't always 7-10 hours. I'd like to stay 1-2 nights in each city; in barcelona, paris and london maybe 3)
- Barcelona (By plane from germany)
- Montpellier
- Marseille (with these two <- ^ I am not quite sure if to do both)
- Nice
- Milan (after that maybe Como ? always wanted to go there, suggestions on Italian/Swiss alp towns ?)
- Zurich
- Paris (from here on I am not quite sure about the succession)
- London (If it makes the trip significantly more expensive I'd even cut it, but I'd like not to)
- Brussles or Leuven
- Amsterdam
-I am open to any stopover suggestions or anything else. I estimated the costs to ca. 2200-2500€ (?) , I would stay in hostels, eat as cheap as possible
-As for the pass I think I'd expand the 10 in 22 by a second one or choose a 30 day pass, this is where I need most of the help :|
- I looked up the prices of some sample connections (Nice-Milan) and it said a ~ 5 h ride is 20€, but nowhere I could enter if I had an Interrail pass, would that cut all costs ? reduce them ? How much will the average ticket cost and on which lanes do you suggest a reservation or a night train ? Thank you in advance and sorry for a newbie's ignorance :D
Flo
Traveller
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Hi!
There'd be a german speaking section of the forum as well... ;)
What other places would you like to visit? Looking at your list this would be easily doable with both a 10in22 or one month pass.
On the way from Barcelona to France you could think about travelling with the Yellow Train: [u]https://rail.cc/blog/little-yellow-train-video/[/u] (another photo below), but this would require an additional overnight stay, for instance at Perpignan.
If you have to choose between Montpellier and Marseille I'd definitely recommend going to Marseille. There, you could also go to the Calanques or to the Cote Bleue: [u]https://rail.cc/blog/scenic-train-cote-bleue/[/u]
From Nice, you can make several day trips to other cities along the Cote d'Azur, such as Grasse, Antibes, Villefranche, Eze, Menton,...
To go to Milan you could then choose between going along the coast via Genova or travel through the Alps via Breil - Cuneo - Torino. Both trips are possible without extra reservations.
You can visit Como as a day trip from Milan, frequent local trains operated by Trenord go there, most of them leave from Porta Garibaldi station, not from Centrale.
To continue to Switzerland you could think about going via the Bernina route: [u]https://rail.cc/blog/zurich-milano-albula-bernina/[/u]
This would be also possible from Como, just take a train from Como to Monza and join the train to Tirano for the Bernina line there.
However also the direct route from Como to Tessin and the Gotthard to Switzerland is really nice. You could think about stopping in Lugano then Luzern.
Zürich - Paris: Avoid the direct TGV Lyria services; instead either go a city in France using regional trains (Mulhouse, Colmar, Strasbourg) and take a domestic TGV to Paris from there which will be cheaper; or travel without any reservations with slower trains through Troyes: [u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail/zurich-to-paris[/u]
Paris - London can be done quite cheaply by bus; the real InterRail version would be to take a ferry though; the shortest option would be Calais - Dover obviously. Eurostar trains are fastest but are really expensive.
To get from London to the Benelux countries you could think about the Dutchflyer ferry: [u]https://rail.cc/blog/from-london-to-amsterdam-with-the-dutchflyer/[/u]
There is no leg on your journey where it would make sense to travel with a night train really.
Reservation prices: [u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-train-reservation[/u]
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Thank you! :)
Flo 8)