florence
Traveller
1 comments
Posted 15 years ago
hi,
this summer i am interrailing with the one month global pass with two friends. we have no idea on how to sort out a good route though.. we also want to fly somewhere first a few days before the pass starts and then travel from there, preferably barcelona but we are not sure if this is possible?
we want to book the flights into europe on the 22nd/23rd june, for the interrailing to start on the 24th. we have 2 festivals that were going to in europe so they have to fit in to it, exit in novi sad from the 9th to the 12th of july and melt in berlin from the 16th to the 19h of july..
the places we want to go, in no particular order are
barcelona
croatia
prague
milan/florence
berlin (melt festival)
serbia (exit festival)
amsterdam?
any help would be greatly appreciated with regards to route planning we want to get it bookes as soon as possoble. we are also open to suggestions of places, thak you in advance.
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
hi ...
so lets start on the 22nd or 23rd June:
1) fly to Barcelona - stay there
2) use Regional Trains (free of supplements) from Barcelona along the French coast via Perpignan to Nice (stay somewhere along this route for camping)
3) still use Regional Trains (free) via Ventigmilla (French-Italian border) to Milan (or Florence)
pay attention in Italy to some high supplements: [u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-train-reservation/italy/it[/u]
but no panic: there are ALWAYS regional or slower trains available with no supplements. just use them, buy a beer and relax! :)
4) from there continue in direction of Croatia - maybe add Ljubljana on your way... better to spent more time in Ljubljana and Croatia than in Southern-France (too expensive).
5) EXIT Festival (Serbia)
6) Budapest - Prague - BERLIN
7) Berlin is definitely worth to stay longer - a lot of cool music clubs and of course the festival. :)
8) Berlin - Amsterdam
[u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail/berlin-to-amsterdam[/u]
9) as I think you are from the UK, have a look on this ferry back (Hoek van Holland to Harwich):
[u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail/amsterdam-to-london[/u]
Always have a look at the country topics of this forum, where you will find a lot of useful information about night trains ... and don't forget to support the railcc project by buying your official InterRail tickets at [ux]https://rail.shop/interrail[/ux]
All the best, Peter :)
florence
Traveller
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thank you so muuch that is really helpful!
only thing is were meeting friends in berlin so are heading there straight from serbia, do you think we could fit in prague before both the festivals or would that be unrealistic?
thank you
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
There are two nice connections from Novi Sad to Prague:
Novi Sad 0904 - Prague 2231
Then you could stay a night in Prague and travel the next day to Berlin; Prague - Berlin is about 4h30 - 5h, there are connections every two hours from 0640 to 1840 (as well as a night train at 0340 but i guess you wont takt it ;) ).
The other possibility would be:
Novi Sad 2252 - Budapest 0504
Budapest 0528 - Prague 1229
Then you could spend some hours in Prague (they are definitely worth it; and even in only six hours you can see a lot) and then take the last train at 1840 to Berlin where you would arrive at 2334).
Note that there are two stations in Prague, Hlavni Nadrazi and Holesovice. Every train to Berlin stops at Holesovice which is a little bit further out, but easily reachable by metro, whereas only a few trains start at Hlavni Nadrazi (the main station). The 1840 train I mentioned starts at Hlavni Nadrazi at 1829.
Hope it helps. :)
Ostew
Traveller
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Hi me and five friends are planning that exact route, if we can get tickets for Melt or Exit. We are flying to Barca on 1st July. Soooo excited, have you got your tickets yet and how much should we expect to pay??