Used interrail website for more clear view of the trainlines, probably gonna end up buying individual tickets. Looking for any tips or suggestions about my current route for a month long trip around Europe through trains. Generally 3 days in each stop at a time sightseeing and hiking nearby >Flying from Oslo to London and staying for 3 days with 1 daytrip to Oxford (to see tolkiens grave)>Train to Paris>Train to Bern with a day trip to the Alps about 1 hour away >Train to Nice with a visit to Monaco>Train to Milan (only 2 days here since i heard there really is not much to see)>Train to Naples (day trip to Pompeii and hike up Vesuvius)>Train to Rome to see the obvious >Train to Rimini to see San Marino and actually chill at the beach>Train to Ljubljana with a day trip to Bled>Train to Vienna >And ending it off with Prague for maybe 4 days I think its a solid route for both nature and city areas but i think there can be improvements. Was thinking of maybe dropping Nice and going to Chamonix-Mont-Blanc instead. I definetly feel like 3 days in some of these places might be too much and too little in other places. highly appriciate any tips people would reccomend. (obviously mostly Backpacking through it in Hostels). Curious what you guys might think
>just goes to major citiesyou seem like a normie so I won't help you
>>2873527Never been much outside of Norway, i want to see the iconic things like Napoleons grave and Pompeii before i go for more obscure places
>>2873525Bypass Paris if you are going to Vienna, go to Zurich instead.
>>2873525>dude, imma speed run all the big cities, im gonna see so many countries and be so well traveled. Please don't fall for this trap. 11 stops X 3 days each is 33 days. If that's the time you have, you could easily spend all of it just exploring Italy alone. Don't go just to tick boxes, actually let yourself enjoy and take in these places. Many of these cities you could easily stay in for 5 days without getting bored, which would also allow for day trips and time to just chill if you need to. Also if you're in each city for just 2 or 3 days it's easy to get burnt out traveling so much.Just pick one region and take it easy.
>>2873525I'm inclined to agree with >>2873535. If you're from Norway, you'll probably get another chance to see Italy and the Alpine Countries. I'd just do England and France, trying to take time to appreciate and enjoy them.
It' fine. It's not the trip I would do. Your plan to save money staying in hostiles will be cancelled out by the fact that you're going to a few fairly expensive cities and that you're probably going to have to buy the monthly Euro train pass for 600 euro. I usually plan 2 week trips with less distance between cities. Something like Prague-Vienna-Bratislava-BudapestRome-Florence-Bologna-Verona-VeniceMadrid-Cordoba-Seville-Malaga
>>2873535This. Cut the cities you visit in half at least. You won’t even remember half the trip if you’re cramming 11 cities into a month. I‘d skip the whole of Italy and spend more time in London, Paris, Switzerland, Vienna and Prague. Only taking two days in London is insane. Skip Ljubljana or make it a day trip, it’s a beautiful town but not much to see. For Italy you should take more time at some point in the future, rushing through the whole peninsula in two weeks doesn’t do it justice. You’re European, it’s not like this is your one and only chance to see the continent.
>>2873564And does the pass magically get you a seat on a fully booked train?>>2873527Hostelfags limit themselves to a handful of destinations by their insistence on staying in hostels.>>2873535If you don't care about meeting people, it's better to stay only a short time in one place before moving on. Long stays tend to leave you feeling more isolated and mopey.
>>2873615If you travel a route like Prague-Vienna, the train runs multiple times an hour. If it's sold out, you just take the next one. Maybe they do sell out in the summer, but I've never had a sold out train in September anywhere in Europe.
>>2873615>Hostelfags limit themselves to a handful of destinations by their insistence on staying in hostels.This is not true at all. Most large or even moderate sized cities outside the US or Africa have them. Now if your goal is nature tourism, that's a completely different experience (even then there are shared lodges similar to hostels), but if you want to visit some small town, well they usually only have enough stuff for one day anyway, so you might as well just anchor yourself in a larger city nearby and take a day trip. Hostels are not limiting at all
