Interrail: Geneva - Budapest - Warsaw - Berlin - Amsterdam

Gibs11
Traveller
1 comments

Posted 12 years ago

Hi,

I'll be going on my first interrail trip for 3 weeks during March/ April.

I will be skiing in Chamonix for a week first, and then plan to begin my adventure from Geneva heading eastward across Europe (perhaps with some zig-zagging on the way - see below) before curving round to head back west across Germany and to Amsterdam.

So, here is my current route plan (I still need to figure some of it out, although I may just decide those bits when I get there):

[b]Geneva - Milan[/b] where I will spend my first night (or 2), perhaps with some scenic stops on the way in the Alps (any suggestions?)
[b]Milan - Zurich OR Innsbruck[/b] via Lake Como. Zurich would perhaps be more convenient but it seems to be quite an expensive place to stay
[b]Zurich/ Innsbruck - Munich[/b] I plan to visit Neuschwanstein Castle at some point during this leg, but I am considering doing it as a day trip from Munich rather than as a stop in between, is it easy to get to?
[b]Munich - Zagreb[/b] At the moment I am considering doing this on the overnight train, staying in Zagreb for a night or 2 and doing a day trip to Ljubljana
[b]Zagreb - Budapest[/b] Again possibly by overnight sleeper
[b]Budapest - Vienna[/b] via Bratislava

This is where I am unsure what to do! I want to visit Prague, Krawkow and Warsaw before heading to Berlin for a few days but cannot decide what the best way to do this is. At the moment I am thinking Vienna - Prague, Prague - Krakow, Krakow - Warsaw, Warsaw - Berlin overnight. Any ideas?

As I mentioned, I plan to spend a few nights in Berlin as I have been before but don't feel I got to explore it as much as I would have liked because I was with my family. Then from here I want to squeeze in as much of Germany as I can, and not necessarily big cities, I have a strange desire to just get off at random 'small towns' and have a look around. Although I have planned quite a bit of my route I want to keep some freedom to be able to do things like that, it's a big reason I was drawn to go interrailing.

Anyway, I will eventually make my way to Holland where I plan to stay a night or 2 in Amsterdam after my pass has expired, so I need to get to Amsterdam on the 9th April. Then I have purchased a 'City Flyer' ticket for the ferry back to England (Hoek van Holland - Harwich) which covers the price of the train ticket from Amsterdam to the ferry.

So I have a few general questions:

Am I being too ambitious for a 3 week pass?
Are there any places in between/ near the places I plan to go that you would recommend? (For example, I have heard about the 'Bone Church' outside of Prague)
Any good hostel recommendations? Particularly in Berlin/ Amsterdam as I will definitely be spending a few days in each. I hear Sir Toby's in Prague is a must!

Apologies for such a long post! Any advice/ comments would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

Callum