No visa needed. You can travel in the Schengen Area for 90 days in any 180 day period. So a month is fine, as long s you haven’t spent a significant time there in the preceding 180 days. Plans for the Electronic Travel Authority (which acts a bit like a visa) have been put on hold for now.

For trip ideas, there are some good itineraries here, which you can use as a starting point. I suggest looking at the rail map and the Seat61 website too.

But in a month you can pick anywhere in the continent really! You might find it easier to break the trip down into chunks - with some fixed points, like getting to Switzerland, and some left open, so you can decide as you go.

 You will want to make sure you reserve your Eurostar home as soon as you can.

Thank you very much re Visa and also thank you for the link and the guidance in terms of breaking it down and booking the return leg 

If you are on Facebook there is a great group called Interrailing for the Older Crowd. It is full of tips and info

Enoy yourselves! 

Thank you 

As you can imagine my generations had none of these social media platform when we were growing up.

Therefore yep i am one of those grumpy dinosaur 

that doesn't have an FB account. Lol

But hey new year time for new change.. 

I will open an account..

I am afraid my generations is very un trusting of platforms like FB  

But will open one

Thank you 

Yes, I empathise with your feeling about FB. However, it is a lovely friendly and informative group.

maybe get someone younger to set you up with lots of privacy settings. 
 

Thank you 

Will do