2 1/2 months out and counting
Well, I’ve had my Interrail ticket since the new year and with only just over 2 months to go it is getting really real and ugly exciting!
Accommodation for the first few stops has been booked. For those that know me well will be quite shocked to hear that I have actually booked a couple of hostels - yes I’ll say that again HOSTELS. If I can do the Travellodge in San Francisco (yes, Tracy Sheldon you know what I mean!) then I can certainly do a hostel. Now this will be a first for me (actually that’s a lie as when I was 15 I did go on a summer trip to Cornwall with my school and we stayed in a hostel which was dire) however they look to have changed considerably since then as I have my own room and the reviews are encouraging and they provide cooked breakfasts now which you don’t have to cook yourself, or take the bins out or do some other community/hostely type job to earn. The hostels will be in Bruges and Berlin, in Poland I’ve not been so brave so booked into a nice city centre hotel in Warsaw and an apartment in Krakow. Anyway I’m sure I’ll up-date you on the success or otherwise of my hostel experience later in the blogs.
Bye for now and I’ll up-date you closer to EU day - got to try to work out how to book a cabin on the overnight train (apparently one reviewer recommends taking a padlock and chain as the cabin doors are not always lockable - although I may have a nice comfy bed, I may be sleeping with one eye open!)
Unfortunately you can’t book reservations on the European trains until 90 days before travelling so I’m still not able to finalise the entire route, but the plan is as follows:
May 14th St. Pancras to Bruges, Belgium
May 17th Bruges to Berlin, Germany
May 20th Berlin to Warsaw, Poland
May 22nd Warsaw to Krakow, Poland
May 25th Overnight train from Krakow to Budapest, Hungary
May 29th Budapest to Belgrade, Macedonia
May 31st Belgrade to Thessoloniki, Greece
June 4th Thessoloniki to Athens, Greece
June 8th Athens to Patras, Greece then ferry to Igoumenitsa, Greece
June 10th Ferry from Igoumenitsa to Bari or San Marino (yet to be decided - 9 hours v 15 hours), Italy.
June 11th to 30th route around Italy has yet to be decided. Sorry being a bit vague around Italy as there is so much that I want to see and can’t decide if the pull is greater towards the southern parts and islands or the nothern parts and food and wine (such a dilemma).
Accommodation for the first few stops has been booked. For those that know me well will be quite shocked to hear that I have actually booked a couple of hostels - yes I’ll say that again HOSTELS. If I can do the Travellodge in San Francisco (yes, Tracy Sheldon you know what I mean!) then I can certainly do a hostel. Now this will be a first for me (actually that’s a lie as when I was 15 I did go on a summer trip to Cornwall with my school and we stayed in a hostel which was dire) however they look to have changed considerably since then as I have my own room and the reviews are encouraging and they provide cooked breakfasts now which you don’t have to cook yourself, or take the bins out or do some other community/hostely type job to earn. The hostels will be in Bruges and Berlin, in Poland I’ve not been so brave so booked into a nice city centre hotel in Warsaw and an apartment in Krakow. Anyway I’m sure I’ll up-date you on the success or otherwise of my hostel experience later in the blogs.
Bye for now and I’ll up-date you closer to EU day - got to try to work out how to book a cabin on the overnight train (apparently one reviewer recommends taking a padlock and chain as the cabin doors are not always lockable - although I may have a nice comfy bed, I may be sleeping with one eye open!)
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