mrbluesky
Traveller
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Posted 12 years ago
We are three people travellıng from İstanbul to Spaın or more specıfıcally we hope Cádiz. We are startıng our trıp by takıng a bus from İstanbul to Athens, and from there a bus to Patra and then a ferry to Southern Italy, possıbly Barı.
From there we are a bıt unsure how, but we want to to travbel through Italy, France and Spaın. We want to know ıf anybody has done thıs or a sımılar route before and how you dıd ıt! We would lıkw to know what are the possibilities for ferries and trains on this route and ıf there are any dıscounts on ferrıes for ınterraıl tıckets. We are open to suggestıons and of course helpful and necassary ınformatıon :)
Peter
Traveller
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Hi.
Here some detailed information.
Ferry Greece to Italy (discount available):
Patras - Ancona: [u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-ferry/patras-ancona/greece-italy/11[/u]
Patras - Bari: [u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-ferry/patras-bari/greece-italy/35[/u]
Train connections in Italy with the special railcc routes. avoiding extra reservation fees:
[u]https://rail.cc/en/search-interrail-route[/u]
If you want to travel by train from Italy to Spain, do it via Ventigmilia, Nice (have an overnight stop there for example), Perpignan to Barcelona.
A nice option is to cross the Pyrenees by Little Yellow Train: [u]https://rail.cc/blog/little-yellow-train-video/[/u]
But you also have the option by ferry from Italy to Barcelona:
Civitavecchia - Barcelona: [u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-ferry/civitavecchia-barcelona/22[/u]
Livorno - Barcelona: [u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-ferry/livorno-barcelona/italy-spain/24[/u]
railcc schedules for Interrailers: [u]https://rail.cc/en/search-interrail-route[/u]
General schedules: [u]https://rail.cc/en/search-train-route[/u]
Peter :)