Bjartne
Traveller
2 comments
Posted 14 years ago
Hi!
Me and a buddy of mine, both 20 years old, are to travel around Europe by train this Easter (23 March - 6 April)
We have tried to set up a provisional itinerary for where our plane will land and go back again. We have ordered the plane to Amsterdam and from Split with Norwegian Air Shuttle. Currently, the itinerary looks like this:
Oslo-Amsterdam-Paris-Barcelona-Nice-Milan-Venice-Ljubljana-Zagreb-Split-Oslo.
As you can see, this is relatively large and famous cities, but we want to visit the little known gems from around Europe, but we know, unfortunately, no one around. We've got tips on Perpignan (fra) and Rimini (ita), where we are going to look a bit around, but we might like other tips also to small idyllic towns that are not primarily characterized by other tourists. We want to follow the Mediterranean as long as this is possible. By the way, do you know how hot it is in Southern Europe around the end of March?
We also know that this is an itinerary which will be criticized for being too long for such a short period of time, but this is only a test ride to find good places to go for the next time, and we will take advantage of night - train all the nights we're on the road, so we will have seen much of each city, however.
Thank you for all your answers! : D
Bjartne
Traveller
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By the way; Does anybody know if it is possible to sleap at Schiphol-Amsterdam without a flight the next day? We arrive in Amsterdam 9.10pm and has not been able to find a single night train that runs from 10pm onwards, so we think maybe we need to stay overnight at the airport. :o
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Hi.
Concerning [b]Schiphol-Airport[/b]: you have every 10 or 15 minutes a train going to [b]Amsterdam Centraal[/b] (travel time: 15-20 minutes). Even in the middle of the night (every hour). If you want to save, buy a normal one way ticket (~ EUR 6) to Amsterdam Centraal, stay there for some nights and then start with your ticket and continue to Paris.
[u]https://rail.cc/en/amsterdam-airport-schiphol-train-station/f3285[/u]
Just some links for your route...
[b]Amsterdam-Paris[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/amsterdam-paris-train/f1472[/u]
[b]Paris-Barcelona[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/paris-pyrenees-barcelona-le-petit-tain-jaune/f4023[/u]
[b]Barcelona-Nice[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/blog/little-yellow-train-video/[/u]
[u]https://rail.cc/en/train/marseille-to-nice[/u]
[b]Nice-Milan[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/train/marseille-to-milan[/u]
[b]Milan-Venice[/b]: day train - attention to the Italian supplements.
[b]Venice-Ljubljana[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/venice-ljubljana-train/f3664[/u]
[b]Ljubljana-Zagreb[/b]: by free day train
[b]Train schedules[/b][u]https://rail.cc/en/search-interrail-route[/u]
And if you want to support our project, buy your InterRail tickets at [ux]https://rail.shop/interrail[/ux] - but I suppose you have them already as you are leaving on the 23th.
Have a sunny trip, Peter :)
Bjartne
Traveller
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Thank you very much Peter, I really appreciated it!
According the ticket did we think to just go down to Oslo Central Station and buy them there, but of course I want to support a good project like this! :)
The only thing is, what if it get lost in the mail? Does my travel insurance cover that or something? You see, me and some friends lost some football kits shipped from Denmark for many thousands norwegian kroner, we tried to contact both the company, the danish and the norwegian mail, but nobody knew where it was. Therefore I'm a bit sceptical to the mail system, I hope you understand :|
So what happens if it get lost, do you know?
Best regards, Lars!
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Hi Lars.
The tickets are send by DHL mail - express and secure service (not by normal postal service). They have a tracking ID and we never got lost one of the tickets sent the last 5 years.
If so, you will get new ones or they will be refunded. As you are short in time, maybe a station is better. As the delivery time to Norway is normally 48hours - but calculate one more day to be sure, as you never know. Better to have a bit of air and not to get in panic. ;)
Peter :)