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Travelling across Europe next year: Route ideas and costs?

Hello all,

Next year, my girlfriend and I are looking to travel around Europe (preferably Balkans/Central Europe). However, I have struggled to find useful materials and/or advice regarding a trip of this scale (I might just be blind!).

For context, we would be coming from the UK and want to do about two weeks of travelling. I don't want to say we'll have a small budget, but it won't exactly be massive either. We're okay staying in hostels the entire time and spending cheaply.

Another big thing is that of the route. I wanted to know how viable it would be to start somewhere in the Balkans, perhaps, or around south-eastern Europe, and then possibly finish in Germany. As such, we would want to fly to somewhere in this region before working our way up. We are happy to miss out on most of the Western European countries as we have already been there or are going to visit them seperately in the near future. I am also aware that Interrail does not extend to some of these countries and regions and so wanted to know the viability of the interrail pass. Therefore, if you have any different suggestions for routes, we are all ears!

My overall question then is this: What would be a good route for a trip like this during summer, and is two weeks too short of a timespan? Any recommendations or things that you could point us to would be amazing. Apologies if this is an information bomb! I am happy if you just point us in the right direction.

Thanks!

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u/TheObviousBrit — 4 days ago

Help! I want to buy an Interrail pass but it won’t let me use my legal name due to hyphenation

On the website it says my information has to match my passport or ID. Unfortunately my first name (as given on my passport and ID) uses a hyphen, and when I try to put it in, the box turns red and says “sorry, we only allow Latin characters A-Z”… thanks @ my parents I guess.

Has anyone had the same problem and knows how to get around it? Should I just use a space instead of the hyphen and hope they’ll let me travel even if it doesn’t 100% match my passport?

It’s a bit last minute as I’d like to travel on the pass tomorrow. Or if that’s not possible I’d need it by Thursday at the very latest. Thank you so much for any info and/or help!

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u/millers_left_shoe — 11 days ago

First solo trip advice

Hi,

I bought a 3 month first class pass for 50% off during the sale last week for my trip next year. I’ve drafted a very rough route/plan but I’d love some advice in terms of places to maybe skip to allow more days elsewhere or maybe to swap out for lesser known cities etc.

See my list below (as previously stated this is very rough and open to change 😁)

Porto → Lisbon
Lisbon → Seville
Seville → Madrid
Madrid → San Sebastián
San Sebastián → Barcelona
Barcelona → Avignon
Avignon → Nice
Nice → Chamonix
Chamonix → Zermatt
Zermatt → Turin
Turin → Florence
Florence → Rome
Rome → Naples
Naples → Venice
Venice → Milan
Milan → Zagreb
Zagreb → Split
Split → Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik → Mostar
Mostar → Sarajevo
Sarajevo → Belgrade
Belgrade → Bucharest
Bucharest → Budapest
Budapest → Vienna
Vienna → Krakow
Krakow → Gdansk
Gdansk → Vilnius
Vilnius → Riga
Riga → Tallinn
Tallinn → Helsinki (ferry)
Helsinki → Stockholm (overnight ferry)
Stockholm → Oslo
Oslo → Bergen
Bergen → Copenhagen
Copenhagen → Berlin
Berlin → Prague
Prague → Munich
Munich → Zurich
Zurich → Strasbourg
Strasbourg → Paris

Also any tips or tricks for general solo travel would be awesome as this is gonna be way outside my comfort zone but it’s something I’ve always wanted to do!

Thanks in advance 😄

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u/Mgrant777 — 12 days ago
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Rhine by train, need help with itinerary since cruise was canceled

Our cruise from Basel to Amsterdam was cancelled for 10/14. We decided to make our own travel arrangements instead of the alternative cruise they were offering..

Luzerne 2 nights
Interlaken area 3 nights
Stratsburg stay 1 night
Middle Rhine 2 nights
Cologne 1 night
Amsterdam 2 nights

Does this sound like a doable trip? Are any small boats going out for day trips on the Rhine? Are there suggestions on which towns on the Rhine to stay at?

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u/Empty-nesters1234 — 12 days ago

First interrail trip questions

Doing an interrail trip with friends after finishing school is really popular, and be me and my friends were planning on doing it but I was wondering how/when to do the trip because of having to enroll to uni and all that ?

Can you take any size bag or is there a limit?

We're also trying to do it as cheap as possible, how much would you recommend i save for 2-3 weeks?

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u/Defiant-Lemon2493 — 11 days ago