lunaci
Traveller
3 comments
Posted 11 years ago
I'm going InterRailing around 7th July - 12th August. It will be my first trip, and planning has been pretty hard without experience. Do you guys think this would be a good route?
1. A week in Italy (Starting from Rome, visiting Florence and maybe Perugia/some other towns)
2. Taking a ferry from Italy to Zadar, Croatia and spending a couple of days there
3. A night train Zadar - Zagreb, then spending 2 days in Zagreb
4. Zagreb - Ljubljana, 2 days in Ljubljana
5. Ljubljana - Munich, 3 days in/around Munich
6. Munich - Prague, spending a few days in Prague
7. Prague - Berlin, 4 days in Berlin
8. Night train Berlin - Paris, then spending a whole week in Paris
9. Paris --> back home to Finland, maybe through Amsterdam
Is this too much? Too many big cities? Any other notes/tips you could give me?
All advice will be greatly appreciated!! :--)
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Hi.
Some thoughts...
In Italy you have the option to avoid the high-speed-trains (EUR 10) and to use instead IC trains (EUR 3) or free local/regional trains which is usually possible on all routes - but slower of course.
Examples here:
Concerning the ferry to Croatia, I only know the Ancona-Split one ([u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-ferry/ancona-split/37[/u]), but Jadrolinija is also going to Zadar. If you like, let us know with a short report after your trip your experiences on this route. :)
From Zadar to Zagreb: buy the reservation for the night train in Zadar on arrival - [u]https://rail.cc/en/train/zadar-to-zagreb[/u]
An other option could be by ferry Italy to Split. Then short bus trip to Ploce. And from Ploce to Sarajevo ([u]https://rail.cc/en/train/ploce-to-sarajevo[/u]) - maybe including a stop in Mostar.
From Sarajevo then by train to Zagreb: [u]https://rail.cc/en/train/sarajevo-to-zagreb[/u]
From Zagreb you can travel the way like you said via Ljubljana - (Lake Bled - [u]https://rail.cc/en/bled/c[/u]) - Munich - Prague
OR
in the other direction via Lake Balaton to Budapest.
Zagreb - Budapest - Krakow - Prague - Berlin - Munich - Paris
Peter :)
lunaci
Traveller
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Thanks for all the advice, Peter!
The route through Split seems very interesting too. I would love to visit Sarajevo and other places deeper in the east. It's just a matter of time, I thought I'd only visit Croatia so I had more time in central Europe. Someday I want to do a trip to the Balkans only.
If I end up using the Jadrolinija ferry to Zadar, I can of course report on how it is :--)
Thanks for all the other route suggestions too! Very helpful.
nltrainer
Traveller
1405 comments
there is NO IR for 5weeks.
Avoid it- simply buy locally in IT when there- also in HR (very cheap anyway-plus that often bus is far better choice) and have your IR only start for the more expensive trips later on.
lunaci
Traveller
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[quote]there is NO IR for 5weeks.
Avoid it- simply buy locally in IT when there- also in HR (very cheap anyway-plus that often bus is far better choice) and have your IR only start for the more expensive trips later on.[/quote]
I know this and have made plans accordingly, I probably should have said so in the OP :--) I won't need IR in Italy because the distances are short enough, I'll just buy local tickets. So I'll go without IR for the first ~week and then buy a 4-week pass.
Thanks for the tip about HR, you're right, maybe I won't need IR there either. Could save time that way. I think I could get a major discount on the ferry ticket IT-HR if I already had an IR pass, though.
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
Hi!
I definitely would recommend to add a few extra stops, maybe as day trips from other cities to your schedule. Seeing that you want to spend four days at Berlin and a whole week at Paris I think you can definitely make more out of your full month InterRail pass.
Otherwise I would try to rearrange the trip so that it fits a 10in22 pass until you reach Paris and then make your way back home with regular tickets bought in advance which might come cheaper.
Possible day trip destinations from Berlin: Dresden, Hamburg, Szczecin, maybe even smaller towns such as Görlitz, Stralsund, Lübeck, Wittenberg.
From Paris: Chartres, Orléans, Lille, Rouen, Le Havre, Provins, Reims, Granville
Flo 8)