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Trying to sort something out for the son (18 year old) for the summer.
Anyone done it recently ?
I last did it 35 years ago, did not book or plan anything apart from buying the ticket.
Recently no, i also did it 32 years ago, had no Idea it was still a thing!
www.seat61.com
Just planning a trip using the site, has been most useful.
I did it 25 years ago - a relative youngster compared to you lot 🙂
Oooh, I did it 22 years ago. That makes me a relative expert compared to all ^ 😉
Yeah- buy a ticket and off you go, sort of. I started in Macedonia as I attended a free summer school for a few weeks there. Then spent a month coming back.
I did three months - a month getting to the Italian coast then a ferry across to Greece to island hop for two months 🙂
Came home when the weather started to get cooler and the money was running out (just left enough to buy my first mountain bike when I got back 🙂
Kid in my family is going to do it. Seems very expensive - might be cheaper to just buy individual train tickets (but perhaps that's missing the simplicity and spontaneity). I'd fly low cost out and then make my way back or vv - but again maybe I'm missing the point
20 years ago.
I'd advise to tarry a while in places rather than push on. One of my team wanted his moneys worth of the distance whereas I would have preferred to actually see stuff.
Sort of...
Got a Rail Pass for non residents when I was back in the UK last Christmas.
. Seems very expensive - might be cheaper to just buy individual train tickets (but perhaps that's missing the simplicity and spontaneity).
http://www.eurail.com/eurail-passes/global-pass
The ability to get on the next train is very good, especially if you don't have firm plans, one of my UK journeys would have cost 50% of the pass cost booked on the day. Also if you can stretch the extra look at the 1st class prices - not much more and depending on where you are that could get you fed/pissed on the train and if there is a long trip it's probably worth it.