anonymous
Traveller
2469 comments
Posted 13 years ago
Hey y'all...
1st time poster here! Name's Chris, 22 year old Music student in Birmingham originally from Liverpool.
So, here's a doozy of a routing for you all to get your teeth into!
By rail - flying to Paris then Paris Bercy - Venice Santa Lucia - Budapest Keleti - Bucharest Nord - Istanbul - Sofia.
By bus/coach/whatever means necessary from Sofia: Sofia - Skopje - Tirana - Pristina - Podgorica - Sarajevo/Belgrade - Belgrade/Sarajevo - somehow to Copenhagen/Lisbon...?! (failing Copenhagen/Lisbon, back to London)
Erm...any words of wisdom or anything?!?!?
Peter
Traveller
9337 comments
Hi Chris...
If you want to add Copenhagen, do it this way...
[b]Paris - Hamburg[/b]: by night train: [u]https://rail.cc/en/paris-hamburg-night-train/f3761[/u]
[b]Hamburg - Copenhagen[/b]: reservation free ICE trains
[b]Copenhagen - Malmö - Berlin[/b]: night train: [u]https://rail.cc/en/berlin-night-express-sweden-berlin/f1186[/u]
[b]Berlin - Budapest[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/berlin-budapest-night-train/f3359[/u]
[b]Budapest - Bucharest[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/budapest-bucharest-night-train/f1605[/u]
And then go on to [b]Istanbul[/b], do your [b]bus trip[/b] around Albania and so on.
From [b]Belgrade to Venice[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/belgrade-zagreb-venice-night-train/f3306[/u]
You can do it as well step by step via Zagreb and Ljubljana.
Then either fly back home to London or extend it until Lisbon (a lot of train travel).
Version 1:
Step 1: [b]Venice[/b] - Milano - Ventigmilia - Nice
Step 2: either Nice - [b]Bordeaux[/b] (by night train) and the next night by night train Irun - [b]Lisbon[/b]
[u]https://rail.cc/en/night-train/irun-lisbon-th-313/73[/u]
Version 2:
Step 1: [b]Venice[/b] - Milano - Ventigmilia - Nice
Step 2: Nice - Perpignan - crossing the [b]Pyrenees by Petit Train Jaune[/b] - Barcelona
Step 3: Barcelona - Madrid - night train to [b]Lisbon[/b]
[u]https://rail.cc/en/petit-train-jaune-latour-de-carol/f1343[/u]
[u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail/madrid-to-lisbon[/u]
These connections are only examples, of course there are also day trains available. But I selected the route keeping in mind saving costs on supplements.
Peter :)
MarkLester
Traveller
2 comments
How did you get on UKG ?. Istanbul is off the system right now of course anyway. Did you at least get to Sofia and back ?.
We've cooked this up which might give you some ideas
gcerc.wordpress.com/route