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Is this interrailing route do-able in 3 weeks?


Adam Davidson

Was planning a route with my friends for a 3 week interrail in June. From anyone with experience, is this do-able?

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seewulf
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  • Railmaster
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  • January 8, 2022

doable ofcourse šŸ™‚ if you just travel by train without sigtseeing you can manage
on day one Paris - Brussels  - Amsterdam - Berlin
day 2 Berlin - Vienna - Venice
day3 Venice - Milan - Grindelwald
day4 Grindelwald - Geneva - Lyon - Perpignan - Barcelona
:D
It all depends how long you will stay in each City :)
Berlin offers atleast 3days (+ a daytrip to Potsdam you are on 4)
Vienna same 3days (+ a daytrip to Bratislava  = 4)
The rail connection between Mardrid and Lisbon is currently very bad (several changes needed and each train needs a reservation on top of the Railpass šŸ˜• )

You start from the UK? why not start with a Eurostar to Brussels then with Reservation free Intercity (Instead of the expensive Thalys) to Amsterdam ;)

and then return from Mardrid via Lyon & Paris back to the UK ;)


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  • January 9, 2022
seewulf wrote:

You start from the UK? why not start with a Eurostar to Brussels then with Reservation free Intercity (Instead of the expensive Thalys) to Amsterdam ;)

and then return from Mardrid via Lyon & Paris back to the UK ;)

I notice youā€™re from NI, so it might be worth pointing out that you arenā€™t actually time-limited if you need to take two days to transit to/from the continent via GB, because it wonā€™t be considered your ā€˜home countryā€™ for the purpose of this exercise. This is because Interrail separate Britain and Ireland according to geographical rather than political boundaries. (Unless of course I am incorrect about this, as has been known...) So if you take a day ferry to Liverpool or Holyhead, for instance, and then an evening train to London (or somewhere else along the way), youā€™re still able to overnight there and take a morning Eurostar the next day if that helps.


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