Yanksrule...not any more! Your itinerary is ambitious and will certainly give you status when back in the USA and you tell friends where you have been. Why not really get going and try for 27 EU countries! Life on a bus can be the experience of a lifetime....Seriously, I wish you well and happy travels!

Sure, it CAN be done, but I wouldn't do it. No fun at all IMHO, to be traveling practically everyday. And it adds a lot of expense in transit fees. Stay two nights, preferably three, in each location, I'd say.
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I think the trip can be done for that amount of money (please don't carry that much money!)on the hostel route(why only 3 nights?). That many cities-plus London!-is not only silly, it's asking for trouble and disappointment. Public transport means delays, waits, cancellations and lots of meals along the way-how will you even have time to buy food in order to save money and not buy expensive and disgusting train food. If you really want to "check off" a bunch of sites, why not do cities as you propose, focussing on great cities in adjacent countries, such as several in Italy, then up through the Alps and around back down through Amsterdam and Brussels to Spain and Portugal, where I asume you have to return to catch your flight? Bon voyage!

I took a trip like this inside the u.s., It was very tiring but I made it.The company that I plan on using is Eurolines. I plan on using the 15 day pass which is not bad for the price. Has anyone had experience with this bus company. Lastly, If I was crossing from Spain to France. Do i have to pay for a crossing or they do not charge because both countries are part of the EU

Hi Yanksrule. Maybe at this point in your life, you prefer a trip where you are seeing many countries and just need a "sampler" of Europe. I felt this way when I was in my late teens - early 20s. I didn't want to waste a minute and just wanted to cram in everything without risking seeing anything else. Now when I travel (I'm 30, though this isn't about age or maturity - just about what you feel like doing), I would rather take my time, meet lots of local people, spend hours in museums, take cooking classes, maybe language classes. But I think my first trips where I traveled a lot in a short span of days(and frankly needed a vacation after my vacation :)) that inspired me to enjoy my travels at a more leisurely pace now.
But you may find that when you get to Europe, you are inspired to just stay in one place or change your schedule. I hope you allow yourself that freedom. One summer, I went backpacking - started in Paris, and had eurorail passes for three countries (I think) and just allowed myself to go where I was inspired to go (sometimes this involved meeting people atyouth hostels and listening about their travels). Not very organized but it was fun for that point in my life.
I agree that you shouldn't carry so much money. And 3000 is not excessive. During my same backpacking adventure, my passport was stolen in Rome and that inolves needing cash. There are always possibilities of emergencies.
Enjoy!

yanksrule: OK - have you actually looked at Eurolines schedules for that itinerary?

I just ran through the fastest journey's between those cities and it came to 64 hours. That is 64 hours of bus time. Only a couple of them are viable overnight trips.

64 hours of confined bus time over 10 days. Like "someone" said before - that is just nuts.

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hi, i've used eurolines on several occasions and they are quite easy to go with.
but please reconsider using this mode of transport for your whole trip. if you're planning on doing paris- london and then back, it is really exhausting.
The route is 9 and a half hours EACH WAY, and all you see is a very boring autoroute the whole way. the bus boards the eurostar to go under the english channel, so you won't get any fresh air or stretch your legs on a ferry.

you do not have to pay anything for crossing eu countries. any toll bridge fares will have been taken care of in the bus fare.

fly between some of the cities, as I said before vueling will be very economical and fly to most of the cities you want to go to and they fly to central airports...