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Do you think an Interrail trip through 8 countries in 21 days would be enjoyable? (piefed.social)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/solarpunktravel@slrpnk.net
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So me and some friends are currently planning a trip through Europe. Nothing is really set in stone yet, our first question is if we want to do a roadtrip with a camper-van or an Interrail trip.

I guess the advantage of a train would be, that it would be a lot more enjoyable to cover larger distances than with a camper. I thought, maybe it would be really cool, if we did like a larger tour through Europe, so I researched a bit and planned a hypothetical trip through Germany (where we live) to Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and back to Germany.

That sounds like a lot, but with the train routes, I looked up it would be doable with only 9 travel days, 4 of which would take the whole day (10-12 hours) and 5 of which would only take half a day (4-6 hours). I thought, that could be quite reasonable and it would be a great adventure type trip.

Do you think that could be cool, or would it get exhausting to quick?

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[–] 6 points 6 months ago

I have done these kind of trips when I was younger. It's nice if you enjoy travelling by train (bring some card games) and want to see some city centers / sights.

In retrospect being older now I would say the time spend moving around, checking in and out of hostels etc, just to see some old buildings and ultimatly quite unremarkable urban tourist sights isn't really worth it. But it is this kind of bucket list activity younger people do to later smugly explain that it isn't really worth it πŸ˜…

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