Thanks all for the helpful comments. I have now settled on taking the earlier train from Venice, so I catch an ICE before midnight in Munich, so I only need to pay for a ticket from my local Verkehrsverbund after that. It’s really unfortunate that the rules around travelling to/from the home country are so strict. I found that to be a real downside to interrail travel, since I already had to pay full price when leaving the country, because at one point in my journey I wanted to travel by night train across my home country (without exiting the train in Germany), so I had to save my outbound journey for that.I could imagine one or more of these changes would improve the experience around that a lot:instead of two calendar days in your home country you are allowed two 24h periods in your home country move the dividing line between travel days past midnight to when most trains stopped running (e.g. 3 or 4 AM) allow through-journeys (at least when not changing trains inside the country) add
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