srmcgowan

Hi everyone. First time poster here. I just want to get any feedback from people I have at the most 3 months of travel time. starting at beginning of May until end of July when I need to be back for a wedding. I have $10,000 to spend plane tickets excluded. I already have my flight into Budapest to start. I want to know if people think i have a good plan and if it is doable with time and money. I dont want to be rushed but also want to see alot. I will be staying in hostile with shared rooms and eating alot of market and grocery food. I am sure i will splurge on food at some times, but not much. I will probably drink a decent amount, but not crazy for the most part.

I may stop in places along the way and change as I meet awesome people on the journey

Total of 1 month in these places

Fly into Budapest for a few days
Go North to Krakow Poland
West to Prague
SouthWest to Munich, Germany
South to Innsbrook Austria( I am not sure if this is a good route. still need to see my options)
East to Salzburg Austria
East to Vienna austria

5 to 7 weeks below depending on funds for below
Fly to Dubrovnik Croatia from Vienna
From Dubrovnik Take the ferry to Bari italy for a day
Hit up the heel of Italy area called Puglia(apulia) region
Head west to Naples
Head North to Rome
Head east for a couple days to Abruzzo region (50 miles east of rome)

Here is where the fun starts. If i got the money Im going back to rome and flying to greece. If i am running short on time and money. Im heading to Innerlaken and bern switzerland for a short stay before i leave

My only other thought is if i have the money instead of greece, is to go Amsterdam, belgium, paris maybe go south towards sicily


Thank you everyone in advance

Scott

bilboburgler

Sounds really fantastic, I'd have a look at Thorntree website which might be more helpful. I guess you are going to stay at hostels (not hostile which would be scary ).

I'd try and reduce the circling part of the journey, start north and come south as you can kill a lot of time on trains.

There is a fodorite PalenQ, I'd did out his threads on this sort of subject as advice he already offered this year would fit in well with what you are proposing.

If you run out of money you will not be able to afford to breath in Switzerland

PalenQ

I will be staying in hostile>

some call those youth hostels hostiles but IME they are not but welcoming places. Assume you are going by train much of the time, at least in central Europe - here are some great sources of info on planning the rail part of your trip - www.seat61.com; www.ricksteves.com and www.budgeteuropetravel.com - download the latter's free and superb IMO online European Planning & Rail Guide for lots of suggested rail itineraries in many countries. And if traveling that much investigate some kind of railpass - if you are under 26 look into the various Youthpasses.

srmcgowan

Thanks!

Aren't hostiles the places that grab you and take you around the world for free. Just kidding

It was late and I did not proof read it.

Thanks for the quick replies. I'll check out the sites and posts mentioned above

fmpden

You need to count your days.. You are allowed 90 days in the Schengen zone. Not three months. On another site a young woman reported being fined 500 Euro for being one day over.

srmcgowan

Yeah I'll be short 90 days. I said 3 months but it will be more like 83 ,84 days. Thanks for the heads up

PalenQ

Get a copy of Let's Go Europe - the so-called 'Bible' of backpackers - written by college students and annually revised - great on accommodations and objectively reviews them IME - calling dumps dumps - also a world of useful info - sold in any major bookstore and of course on amazon.com.

PalenQ

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PalenQ

You may want to hopo some of Europe's plethora of overnight trains - save daytime travel time and the cost of a night's accommodation - if you have a railpass the 7 pm rule lets you cover lots of ground using just one day on a flexipass.

PalenQ

The 7 pm rule on overnight trains:

If you have a flexible railpass - a flexi pass good for X number of days of unlimited travel to be used any time over an overall larger time frame - typically a 2-month period - using the pass often to cover long distance between bases where you will stay for some days then use the pass to move on, etc.

But if you board an overnight trainafter 7 pm - which is usually the case, you put the next day's date in on your pass as your unlimited travel day - thus you can travel using only one day from 7 pm the first day to the following midnight.
Thus you can cover very very long distances using only one day on a pass - like from Amsterdam to Munich and on that same day to Vienna or Budapest or Prague, etc - all using only one day on a flexipass.

PalenQ

note that railpasses are no longer valid on overnight trains between Paris and Italy - one of a handful of such trains not honoring them - zillions do however.