Jellings
Traveller
5 comments
Posted 15 years ago
We were thinking of getting the eurostar from england to and from paris and travelling to cannes amsterdam,and somewhere in spain and italy.
Can you reccomend a route? also, are there only certain zones we can travel in?
Flo
Traveller
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Amsterdam would be good to do and the beginning or end of the trip, you then could take a ferry Harwich - Hoek van Holland to get there/back to the UK: [u]https://rail.cc/en/harwich/ferry/c[/u]
From Paris I'd first go to Spain, either along the Atlantic:
TGV Paris - Irun; there you could continue to San Sebastan, Bilbao etc which are all nearby.
or along the Mediterranean:
TGV Paris - Montpellier, continue by regional trains along the coast or take the twice-daily direct Talgo service (expensive, slightly faster).
If you want to use night trains avoid the expensive Elipsos services Parus - Barcelona/Madrid and use the domestic SNCF services to Irun/Port Bou instead and continue from there.
If you want to travel more in Spain keep in mind that all long and medium distance services require supplements.
When staying at Cannes I'd recommend making day trips along the Côte d'Azur, ie to Antibes, Nice, Grasse, Monaco etc. In Italy continue along the Ligurian Coast where you can also find many pittoresque little villages. From Genoa you have fast connections to Torino, Milano, Firenze, Pisa and even Rome.
Best way from Italy to Amsterdam would be the direct CNL train, running only at weekends. However there are other alternatives too.
There are no zones anymore, all global interrail passes can be use in all interrail countries.
[u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-night-train[/u]
[u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-train-reservation[/u]
[u]https://rail.cc/en/search-interrail-route[/u]
Flo :)
Jellings
Traveller
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Thank you for the advice. After talking some more, we've decided to take the eurostar from London to Paris, and from there to Switzerland, Italy , Cannes and back to Paris. Probably intending to spend two nights in each place and another night in Paris at the end before getting the eurostar back to London.
In France we want to visit Paris and Cannes, but in Switzerland and Italy I don't really know where would be best to stay (preferably somewhere that has a good train line to and from it). If you could advise where would be a good city to stay in Switzerland and Italy, and the best trains to use, that would be awesome!
We've looked at some youth hostel websites in Paris which seem reasonably priced, when travelling we'd want to stay in a city that has youth hostels or cheap accommodation as we are students and are on a tight budget.
Also, it says that there are 5 travel days within 10 days. Does this mean that we could travel on more than one train on one of the 'travel days'? (for example traveling from one country to another, checking into a youth hostel & then using the interrail ticket again on the same day on a local line).
Thanks,
James.
Jellings
Traveller
5 comments
Sorry for posting again, I couldn't find a way to edit my post above.
I've drawn on a map the outline of where we want to travel:
thanks again,
james
SiDUDe
Traveller
752 comments
yes, you can travel on however many trains you want on that day. Also check out the 1900 rule (on the forum) to see how you can take night trains in only 1 day!