Shrews
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Posted 14 years ago
Meant to go interailing in the 80's but circumstances at the time meant I had to get a job instead !
Nevertheless, i'm here now ! And my partner and I have committed ourselves to saving £2k over the next year and we are going to do it !
Fed up of 25 years of package tours we have agreed that our fortnightly summer holiday will be spent over the next four years in the cities, towns and places we've dreamt and read about.
However, we need some advice. This is our planned 'first' trip below and we would like to know if you think it's possible to do in sixteen days and if so, how much do you think it would cost (we've budgeted £2.5k for the both of us, but not sure if we're way off). Not only that, will we be permanently knackered and will we get to do much sightseeing other than the inside of railway stations.
Plus any other advice you could give would be gratefully appreciated.
[b]Trip 1[/b]
Fly to Naples (Friday night) then the train
Naples to Sorrento (Saturday night)
Sorrento to Pompeii
Pompeii to Rome (Sunday,Monday and Tuesday nights)
Rome to Pisa
Pisa to Florence (Wednesday night)
Florence to Venice (Thursday and Friday night)
Venice to Zurich and on to Staadt (Switzerland) - she has friends there (Saturday and Sunday night)
Staadt to Freiburg (Black Forest, Germany) (Monday and tuesday night)
Rhine tour ending up in Cologne (Wednesday night)
Cologne to Amsterdam (Thursday and Friday night)
Amsterdam to Paris (Saturday night)
Eurostar home on the Sunday
Peter
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Hi.
Time to go now ... :)
I think 2500 GBP including the InterRail passes will be enough. Even using more comfortable rooms in hostels.
Just calculate your needs per person per day.
For example: EUR 30 for accommodation, EUR 10 for extras, EUR 10 for food, ... and multiply it with your 16 travel days.
Concerning your route... you selected a really nice one.
In Italy you can do all this by day trains (night trains and specials are listed at the Italy forum: [u]https://rail.cc/en/italy-train-supplement-online-booking/f2949[/u]
Pay attention to the Italian supplements: [u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-train-reservation[/u]
But there are in most cases slower trains to avoid them: [u]https://rail.cc/en/search-interrail-route[/u]
Leaving Italy, all trains (except Eurostar) are free of supplements....
If you have some special questions, let me know...!
Peter :)