I also would suggest avoiding Paris if your destination is Germany. I’m from near Oban and have done Glasgow to Cologne in one day, in time for dinner, admittedly without kids though. I still think Glasgow to Brussels is no problem in a single trip, also decent accommodation in London isn’t cheap. Another option to consider, and this is the route I’m taking next week, is via ferry Newcastle to Amsterdam. It’s costing us £48 each, each way including bus transfer from Newcastle / Amsterdam and that’s overnight so saves on an overnight accommodation stay. Food and drink on board is expensive but many folk just take a picnic. Our tickets from Glasgow to Newcastle were so cheap it was no point wasting a pass day on them. from Amsterdam you could easily get to Baden Wurttemberg in time for dinner, or take a more leisurely day and stop somewhere on the way, maybe on the Rhine. We’ve been looking into the ferry funnily enough. We’re doing it in Oct for a week in Amsterdam too. Looking at
Too many great answers so was hard to pic a best. Thank you so much to you all for your help.
Given that a travel day is from 0000 to 2359 (CET) or 2300 to 2259 (GMT) I see no problems doing Glasgow to Paris/lille/Brussels in a day. You can easily board a train in Glasgow and be in London by 1300 and then a 2 hour Eurostar to Lille (my preference - cheaper hotels and a nice smaller city. Plenty of trains from there.). The same on return a morning TGV gets you to London by lunchtime and plenty of trains back to Glasgow. The Country of residence rule is simply that for up to 2 travel days you can travel in your COR (UK) as freely as if you were in any other country. There is no restrictions on how many trains you catch nor where you travel with them. You can use them in as many countries as you want in a travel day so travel completely within your COR or to cross a border in either direction is entirely up to you. I used my last pass for 2 fly out and E*/LNER back. Lille is a fantastic suggestion, thank you, it hadn’t crossed my mind to do anything other than straight to Paris
If using the TGV/ICE service from Paris into Germany you must reserve and there is an expensive supplement as well. If you give your itinerary in detail community members can suggest the best way to travel economically on this route. It will be slower though if cheaper. Thank you for your reply. Once we’re a bit further into the idea I will post back. I love the planning stage but I think I may be overthinking this and making it harder than it should be!
No, that's not possible. You have just two travel days in your homecountry and you'd need three for this (if you really pay for a normal ticket from London to Paris). Just possible if you'd buy a normal ticket for the Eurostar back, too. Ahh Yes, I forgot to say it would be a return Eurostar ticket we’d get. So does this make sense?Day 1: Glasgow to London and stop over for a night (using Interrail Pass) Get the Eurostar (We pay independent of pass) Day 2: Paris to Black Forest Day 3: Black Forest to Paris Eurostar home to London where we would stay a night or so (We pay independent of pass) Day 4: London to Glasgow (using Interrail Pass)I’m sure Seat61 said you couldn’t do an outbound journey then stop for a night which implies we need to physically leave the UK but on the Interrail site it said “You can use your Interrail Global Pass for one outbound and one inbound journey to/from your country of residence (this means you can travel to the exit or entry station, port, or airport)
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