Europe for a month
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- joseprieto
Hey guys, So Im traveling to europe for a month Nov. 1st land in Madrid, and come back from Rome dec 1st.
Im going by my self and I have no plans.
Im debating if I should get an euro pass and take the train everywhere. sounds good but its really expensive. I have the money for it but I dont know if is worth it.
People say flights are very cheap there and buses too.
Have you done this type of trip before?
any recommendations on where to go and how to travel and places to stay?
- Continuity0
Coaches are a pretty uncomfortable way to travel; I'd go for the train. You can move around if you need to, you get scenery galore and you get from point A to point B quickly if you get on a TGV or ICE.
- whats TGV?joseprieto
- Train à grande vitesse.Continuity
- Train Go Veryfast™jimzy
- HIGH SPEED TRAIN!akrok
- LOL! 'Train Go Veryfast™' FTW!Continuity
- downtime0
sry i have no advice except relax, take your time, don't over schedule or stretch yourself, if you're hungover and planned a trip to the museum don't go to the museum enjoy and sleep wherever you are... you'll want it to be 6 months
- srhadden0
travel : cheapest : buses
places to stay : couchsurfing of course
- uan0
forget about the cities, go to a nice beach in the south. fuerte ventura or lanzarote. find cheap flights online at ebookers or similar sites. rent an app, go surf.
- for cheap flights check also easyjet.com, spanair.comuan
- lowimpakt0
flying may be a little but cheaper but if you want to have a proper adventure, meet people along the way, see lots of cities, understand the landscape etc get an interrail pass.
airports are shite and are always outside of where you want to go.
I've done it lods of times now and every time has been great.
http://www.raileurope.co.uk/Defa…
http://www.seat61.com/there were some tips we learned along the way - i.e. if you have oone of the set amount of days tickets (e.g. 10days in 22) you can leave somewhere after 8pm travel over night and then use the full 24 hours the next days. Doing this means you can travel long distances, save on hotel price. This rule may have changed in the last 2 years.....
the last trip we did was london - munich - budapest (by mistake) - llubijana - slovenian alps - sarajevo - mostar - dubrovnik - split - llubijana again - berlin - home
- joseprieto0
can you explain that to me again? I dont undestad what you mean when you say leave at 8pm and then use the full 24 hours the next days.
- lowimpakt0
some tickets are that you use a certain number of days within a particular period. i.e. 10 days travel within 22 days.
your ticket has 10 spaces for stamps that the inspector will stamp and this covers you for 24 hours from the time of stamping.
there was some rule that if you left after 8pm you could travel the full day the next day on the same stamp.
we almost always travelled at night.
the inspectors get way more relaxed about stamps the further south you go. especially around Bosnia etc.
- lowimpakt0
another adventure would be to travel from madrid to south of Spain (visit places like Granada) and then travel across marocco, algeria, tunisia, try and get into Libya and then ferry back up to Italy.
or you could go north through via valencia, barcelona etc then hike/camp over the pyrenees and then hire a car and drive through south of france towards italy
- joseprieto0
those two routes sound awesome! thanks alot for the tips! ^
I cant buy interail pass but I think Im gonna do eurail.
- kingkong0
3days in each
- e-wo0
Here's what I did:
- Bought the cheapest car I could find in Slovakia
- Travelled 13 countries in 2 months
- Couchsurfed exclusivelyWouldn't change a minute of it. Substitute bus pas for used car if you wish. You'll sacrifice some spontaneity, but as long as you couchsurf, it'll be made up for.
And: Croatia > Italy
- Actually, take cannonball's advice below. The fewer stops, the better.e-wo
- cannonball19780
Go to one place and say there the whole month. Dont dilute with mass locations.
- +1
That's what I would do.
Either way have fun!monoblanco - < Really good advice.e-wo
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- hans_glib0
i wouldn't stay one place if you haven't been before, but don't try to do too much.
i'd say madrid for a week - marseille - vicenza (with a pop into venice if you haven't been) - rome for a week
but the trains might make that hard to do. vicenza is near verona but much more laid back, less touristy and all the better for it.
- loool0
I think the planes are cheap if you take them way earlier than your departure...otherwise, if you take them day to day, I don't think you will come up cheap...for planes you need to carefully schedule your journey and be 100 percent sure, so it kills the adventure thing...I would go for interrail ticket...this way you can travel anywhere, anytime...
my recommendations:
France : Cannes, Nice...those places are great
*expensive as hell but really great
- fadein110
Europe is not one country - travel costs and best choices will vary from country to country... Its not the United States of Europe (although some want that)
- chrisRG0
Do not discard the cheap flights, in some occasions they are a way more worth than train, specially if you plan to travel long distances.
Train can be quite expensive here.
www.easyjet.com
www.ryanair.com- wizzair.com as wellloool
- cool, i didn't know that one :)chrisRG
- You really need nerves of steel to cope with WizzAir's horrible service and hyper-cramped economy class, thoughContinuity
- I never had that experience with them :)loool
- cannonball19780
Budget airlines will try to assfuck you on luggage fees.
- shaft0
With Ryanair it's wise to use a Mastercard Prepaid card—the only kind that has card fees waived.
Buy general travel insurance and uncheck insurance box with low-fare airlines.
Why don't you pop down to Dublin for a day or three?
Also, I noticed Ryanair flights to/from Oslo are strangely cheap these days, could be cheaper to fly there across Europe and back a few hours later than direct to a neighbouring country—my gf just did that.
- Continuity0
One little thing about all the budget airlines (besides shit service, cramped quarters and punishing luggage policies): they tend to land in small airports in the middle of nowhere, with connections to the city that aren't really anywhere near as good as they would be flying into a major airport (Heathrow, CDG, Schiphol, et cetera).
So, if that's what you're going to go with, be prepared for a bit of a hassle and possibly additional expense in leaving/going to a small airport.