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Crespo
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Posted 18 years ago

Heey guys.
Me and my girlfriend have planned a route to do this summer with a global ticket, just wondering if it looks alright and how easy it is to get from certain places.

London - Paris - Brugge - Amsterdam - Prague - Vienna - Athens - train to patrai and get ferry to Bari in Italy - Napoli - Rome - Venice - Milan - Barcelona - Madrid - Paris - London

Also just a general interrail question, for like a train between milan and barcelona, would it need to be booked in advance or can you actually just go find a train and get on? I know it must be okay for shorter distances but I woulda thought longer ones would be all booked up and stuff. Thanks!

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anonymous
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replied 18 years ago

Hi Crespo!

London-Paris is with Eurostar.
Paris-> Bruxelles Midi/Brussel Zuid-> Brugge will take about 3 hours with TGV / Thalys
Brugge-Amsterdam is with the BeNeLux-train, that goes every hour from Brussel-> Rotterdam(via Antwerpen and Mechelen in Belgium).
Brugge -> Antwerpen: every 15 min.
Rotterdam -> Amsterdam every 15 min.

Amsterdam-Prague is with ICE/Euronight, and Prague - Vienna is also a good connection. I don't know the rest of your route.

Maybe it's better to do first Vienna, because Amsterdam-Vienna is a nightline (Amsterdam(ICE directly, or slow trains via Enschede or Nijmegen/Arnhem or Venlo)-> Düsseldorf (with euronight, if i'm right)-> Vienna).

It might be a good idea to do a reservation the day (or 2 days) before you'll take a nighttrain or highspeedtrain. It's also possible to do a reservation for an other route (for example booking Copenhagen - München in Berlin).

Have a nice trip!

Stefan

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Sven82
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replied 18 years ago

The BeNeLux train runs every hour from Brussels to Amsterdam. With Interrail it's free and you don't need a reservation.

You could also take the Thalys (TGV) but you need a reservation which costs 10 euro each. It's 1 hour faster.