Three different routes - which would be best ?

lunaci
Traveller
3 comments

Posted 11 years ago

I'm a 16. y old girl going on my first InterRail trip in July. I'm having some trouble planning my route, because there are just too many options! I don't want to make a strict itinerary or anything, but it would be helpful to even vaguely know around where I'm traveling, packing- and budget-wise etc. (I made an earlier topic too, about a route, but unsurprisingly I soon got different ideas).

I'm flying to Rome in early July, so that's my starting point. I'll probably buy an IR pass in Italy, I'll visit some other Italian cities but I'll just buy local tickets. From Italy I'll continue with a 22-day IR, but I'm not sure where.

So it's a 3-week trip (Italy excluded), and these are the latest route outlines:

1. [b]Rome --> Florence --> Lyon --> Paris --> Amsterdam --> Prague --> Berlin --> back home [/b] (this is a slight problem too, because I live in Finland, which is in an annoying place from the continent. it would take a long time to go by train through scandinavia and then a ferry. maybe i'll take a ferry from denmark/germany or something.)

2. [b]Italy --> Split, Croatia --> Zagreb --> Ljubljana --> Krakow --> Warsaw --> Berlin--> home[/b]

3. [b]Italy --> Barcelona (long ferry) --> around Catalonia (I'd like to visit Girona since I know people there) --> Southern France --> Paris --> Amsterdam --> Hamburg --> home[/b]

Which one sounds the most interesting? This will be my first long trip and I haven't seen much of Europe yet. I don't want to make too many plans, but I'd like to know what direction I'm going in.

Any tips or criticisms or suggestions will be much appreciated!