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Old Feb 8th, 2017, 01:57 PM
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any route changes?

just wondering if anyone has any tips, places to visit or extra destinations i could add to a route of:

amsterdam
cologne
munich
innsbruck
Ljubljana
zadar
zagreb
budapest
bratislava
vienna
prague
krakow
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How long are you allowing for this tour of Europe?

How are you travelling?

What time of year?
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You could add hundreds of places, obviously, but yes, we need to know the answers to annhig's questions above.
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Old Feb 8th, 2017, 02:41 PM
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Yes time and mode of travel are important -offhand I'd say since you are going largely to large cities trains would be the best along with perhaps some cheap flights.

You would need at least a month as now to do that itinerary.
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How long are you allowing for this tour of Europe? Just over a month

How are you travelling? Train, plane and the odd bus

What time of year? August
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Old Feb 9th, 2017, 05:51 AM
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thanks, Kav.

that means that you have roughly 30 days for 12 places, or 2 ½ days in each, which allowing for an average of ½ a day to get from place to place comes down to 2 - and in the heat of August too.

What it comes down to is that, as I expected, [which is why I asked those Qs] you really don't have enough time to do it all and have some fun as well.

I would suggest picking 6 places that you most want to see and concentrate on them. You might add in the odd day trip or overnight in between your main places but 6 main stops is the max that I would try to fit into that timescale.
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thanks, that is just a rough guideline currently, just making sure we are not missing out on any hidden gems out there!
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How are you travelling? Train, plane and the odd bus>

Lots of good info on trains:
www.bahn.de/en - easy to access rail schedules for all European trains;
www.seat61.com; www.budgeteuropetravel.com; www.ricksteves.com.

How old are you? If under 26 look at some kind of Eurail Youthpass or if over some kind of regular Eurailpass if you hit half of those places.
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all 3 of us will be 22, looking at a 7 days in a month europass, struggling getting to zadar and krakow fast and cheap
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Zadar is not a place I'm familiar with but your route seems a little weird here - you can get from Ljubljana to Zagreb [or vice versa] on a train in about 2 hours and then it's another 3 hours by road to Zadar. What is the attraction of Zadar? There are what look like other coastal resorts closer to both Ljubljana and Zagreb - Krk for example.

They are all a long way to go to only spend a couple of days there. Krk is on an island where you could probably spend several days enjoying a relaxing time on the beach.
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not to sure on why zadar, a friend has been there and wants to return. we can fly to warsaw from zadar complete the trip as follows
warsaw - krakow - prague - vienna - budapest

miss out on zagreb but shortens the journeys
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not to sure on why zadar, a friend has been there and wants to return. we can fly to warsaw from zadar complete the trip as follows
warsaw - krakow - prague - vienna - budapest>>

but then you have to get to Warsaw, and it's not really anywhere near the other places you say you want to visit.

I suggest a different approach - get a guide book or 6, particularly the Rough Guide and LonelyPlanet guides, think about what really interests you all, and look at what they suggest for 30 day itineraries.
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