anonymous
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Posted 14 years ago
A 'friend' and I are planning to trek around Europe for 22 days. This is what we've figured out. We live in a 'lads pad' in Notting Hill, so will go from the UK.
Amsterdam
Prague
Budapest
Munich
Rome
Vienna
Kandersteg
Barcelona (we'll probably stop off at a beach/historic town between Kandersteg and Barac to break up the travel)
Paris
Is this... achievable? We don't plan to activate the pass until we go from Amsterdam-Prague. I guess we could let it run out in Paris as well.
Thank you,
Go wild in the aisles,
Dale
Peter
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Hi ...
Easy to do within 22 travel days.
Maybe some links you already found:
[b]UK-Amsterdam[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/blog/from-london-to-amsterdam-with-the-dutchflyer/[/u]
[b]Amsterdam-Prague[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/amsterdam-prague-night-train/f3747[/u]
[b]Prague-Budapest[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/prague-budapest-train/f1468[/u]
or Prague-Vienna and then by day train to Budapest): [u]https://rail.cc/en/prague-vienna-night-train/f1677[/u]
[b]Budapest-Vienna[/b]: free day train called Railjet - only use direct trains as otherwise you will have to pay national IC supplements in Hungary!
[b]Vienna-Munich[/b]: free day train Railjet
[b]Munich-Rome[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/munich-rome-night-train/f2872[/u]
[b]Rome-Kandersteg[/b]: via Milano, Brig. Travel time ~ 6h. Pay attention to Italian supplements:
[u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-train-reservation/italy/it[/u]
[b]Kandersteg-Bern-Barcelona[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/zurich-bern-geneva-barcelona-night-train/f1099[/u]
[b]Barcelona-Paris[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/barcelona-paris-night-train/f1040[/u]
[b]Paris-UK[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/paris-london-eurostar/f1806[/u]
or by ferry: [u]https://rail.cc/en/paris-london-ferry-calais-dover/f1442[/u]
More train schedules here: [u]https://rail.cc/en/search-train-route[/u]
Peter :)
anonymous
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well i hope you schedule kandersteg not as a stay, just as a waypoint on your route?
its about 20 km away from here and there's nothing but a trainstation and 4 houses.
anonymous
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We weren't planning on checking out the town, just using it as a base for some hiking.
Since you live in the region, where would you recommend to stay?
anonymous
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It matters what you wanna do.
For hiking is kandersteg great, but i don't know how's about accomodation there.
Another village would be Grindelwald or Lauterbrunnen. When you look on the map or Google Earth or whatever: Instead of going into the Valley near Spiez you can just stay in the train to the end of the lake to Interlaken and from there with another train into the valley. When you wanna go southwards then you must go through Kandersteg, it's the only (good) possibility, so this is maybe a disadvantage compared to Kandersteg where you would be already on the route. It takes just an hour from Grindelwald to Kandersteg I guess.
Grindelwald was once a village at the end of a glacier but since 100 years is the glacier now some 100m away.
it's the begin of the UNESCO heritage jungfrau-aletsch (glacier). the aletsch glacier is the longest glacier i europe (or 2nd longest).
And then you''ve got there also the Eiger (with the northface) and the jungfrau (reachable by train but incredible expensive!!).
So i think the scenery in Grindelwald or Lauterbrunnen is more interesting than Kandersteg.
Or if you wanna stay in the southern parts of the alps could be Zermatt or Saas Fee interesting but both of them are a bit off of the route. Zermatt is nevertheless a visit worth..
anonymous
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Thank you so much for the links Peter, you've prodded us in the right direction :) .
Thanks Fratellis, we're going to Grindelwald/Lauterbrunnen now, we're willing to pay the extra fare and it's not off route, as we're going to get the next train in Geneva.
anonymous
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I would prefer Grindelwald then.
The valley of Lauterbrunnen is more impressive but because its cut deeply into the mountains you've got a lot of shadows while Grindelwald is more sunny and open :)