I'm a student looking to travel, likely solo, in the summer of 2011 for 4 months. Looking for advice on places to visit, and the order in which to visit them.
My plan is to fly from Canada to Dubai to visit family for a week or so, then fly to Europe, then trek through a few countries before getting to the UK where I plan to visit friends and fly home from. I plan to get a Eurail Global Pass (2 or 3 month pass) once I arrive in a participating country, and a Britrail Pass (15 day pass) once in the UK. I will stay in hostels as much as possible, so feel free to recommend any! I'll run through a pretty rough itinerary, the hardest part is figuring out what order to visit places, the list is a first thought of the order I'd go in, with a approximate number of days I'd spend in each place . Here goes:
Dubai (7)
Rome (1)
Venice (1)
Florence (1)
Pisa (1)
Cinque Terre (3)
Genoa (1)
Nice (1)
Marseille (1)
Barcelona (3)
Madrid (2)
Lisbon (2)
Bordeaux (1)
Paris (4)
Versailles (1)
Bern (1)
Interlaken (1)
Lauterbrunnen (1)
Zurich (3)
Innsbruck (1)
Graz (2)
Budapest (3)
Vienna (3)
Bratislava (2)
Brno (1)
Krakow (1)
Auschwitz (1)
Warsaw (2)
Wroclaw (1)
Prague (4)
Regensburg (1)
Munich (2)
Nuremberg (2)
Leipzig (1)
Berlin (4)
Hamburg (1)
Bremen (1)
Amsterdam (4)
Rotterdam (1)
Cologne (2)
Frankfurt (3)
Luxembourg (2)
Brussels (3)
Dieppe (1)
Vimy Ridge (1)
London (5)
Stonehenge (1)
Bath (2)
Cambridge (2)
York (1)
Edinburgh (3)
Belfast (2)
Dublin (3)
Flight Home
Okay so that adds up to around 105 days, which gives me a bit under 2 weeks to work with, I'm guessing those will be the travel days, although I hope I don't have to spend entire days travelling as everything seems relatively close. Is this route completely inefficient? I was thinking of the weather and heading north as it gets hotter. Am I missing anything really important, or spending too much time in one place and not enough in another? I am open to suggestion. Any idea what an average price per day would be, excluding travel costs.
Reply to this Hello Scott 😊
At least you have plenty of time left to plan everything.
I recommend that you spend at least 3 night in everyplace you stop unless you can get there in just a couple of hours by train. In that case a day trip would be OK. Spending a few night in each place would give you some time to relax and really absorb the surroundings instead of spending all your time rushing around in an exhausted frenzy.
Europe is easy to get around by train because there is an extensive train network. Let the route depend on how you want to travel. If you want to spend some nights on trains you could choose 10+ hour train journeys and zig zag over and back in Europe. Otherwise take the most time efficent routes. A map of the train routes will probably come with your rail pass(at least is did with the ones I bought. Otherwise check the internet for one). Looking at these maps makes efficient route planning much easier.
Mel
Reply to this Thanks for the info. I've revised some of what my plan was. I posted the same question in the Europe thread, is it possible to merge the two together? Please go
here as I think it's more applicable to the Europe thread
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