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and why does it say my posts here are over 1 year old...when I just posted them !?

​@Ricky Rails 2 Please contact customer service for technical assistance:

https://eurail.zendesk.com/hc/en-001/requests/new

The Oauth login is the regular login with username and password. They should call it something else though.

Hello all!

My name is Eelco, from Zaandam, The Netherlands. I'm an IT-guy, doing development in Java and Python and … more. Last three years I went back to school, to learn to be a restoration carpenter, maintaining and building traditional wooden houses, churches, farms etc.

Last year we traveled Europe for a month by Interrail, this year we plan a 3-month tour. Looking forward to that!

Besides all that, I'm investing time in Open Source, to get rid of the power of Big Tech. If your interested, meet me at Mastodon: @eelcoa@mastodon.nl

cheers,

Eelco

Hello, and thank you for accepting me onto this forum. I’m a 65 years old Australian male, who, with my wife, is planning on travelling to 1/. Switzerland and then onto 2/. Great Britain in the May/June period of 2026. This will be a first for us both, and probably a once in a lifetime trip. Our goal is to travel primarily by rail so that neither of us has to focus on driving unfamiliar roads. I look forward to finding many hints and suggestions on this forum to help us with the planning of our “once in a lifetime”.

Cheers

I am a 44-year-old father of a family and will embark on my very first Interrail trip to Sweden  this summer with my wife and children. Grateful for inspiration of all kinds and tips from experienced travelers.

Good morning

I've been travelling by train all my life, including in the last days of steam. I'm currently planning a month away from my home in France, on a circular tour using a 30 day pass. That's for flexibility, rather than cheapness but it will save me some money over advance purchase tickets. I'm shocked that the cost of just a couchette is often no cheaper than an advance ticket and sleeper together. As I'm intending to travel mostly by day to see the scenery that's not too much of a disaster. 

My fixed points are first day travel and two nights accommodation in Chur travelling on Bernina  and Centivallee, and last two days travel back from Prague to Poitiers. In between I have the main objectives of Naples, Athens, Istanbul, Pammakkule, , Bucharest, Budapest and Prague, plus a few options depending on how I feel about it at the time. If anyone has suggestions as to especially scenic routes I would love to hear them. 

Thanks, all.

Hi

My name is Cornelius, 53, born and living in Mexico. I have ancestry in Germany and Netherlands, so I have always wanted to visit those lands. I am currently at the very first steps of planning a “Eurotrip” for the first months of 2026, so I will appreciate every help.

Thanks in advance. 

Salut moi c’est Maëlle😊

Je suis Suisse et je vis actuellement en Belgique pour mes études . J’ai toujours adoré voyager et en 2023 j’ai fait mon premier voyage solo avec un pass interrail durant 1 mois et j’ai adoré. J’espère pouvoir repartir une fois mais pour l’instant les études sont prioritaires. Par contre lorsque je rentre voir ma famille en Suisse je prends toujours un pass interrail et c’est vraiment chouette 😀

Hi everyone, I am Andrés, and I recently started trying to do my yearly visits to my family in Spain by train (all the way from the place where I am based, Copenhagen). This more than 3000km trip has always for me meant that I had to find a flight that would get me probably to Madrid, and then around 4 hours to my city, well away from the accessible reality of the Spanish capital.

This last summer was the first time I did this entire trip with an Interrail pass, where instead of doing all the trip at once, I broke it down into 4 days of traveling, and I took time to visit friends along the way. It was a great experience, even though my skills for reservations, and coordinating the moves along the way were definitely not the best. I hope that it is just a matter of practice, and that It can become as easy/natural as it is for me to book a flight and time correctly the moves to make it work.

I am planning another train crossing of Europe from North to South for the coming winter vacations with my partner, where we will go first to Italy, cross to France to her family, and then keep going South to my family in Spain. Then back to Denmark! (probably making a stop either in Paris or in Netherlands along the way) I am really excited to do this switch, and hopeful for normalizing this way of moving to friends and family around me. 

Thanks for the people working and participating on this platform, I think it is super important to have tools for citizens to access train traveling as easy and smooth as possible.

Cheers everyone!