suggestions for planning an itenary
 

Hi,
I am new to this forum.Am planning a trip to europe from the middle of may to the end of may.I wish to visit amsterdam,prague and vienna and krakow.i want 5 days in amsterdam and 5 days in krakow.i have 10 more days,please advice where i can go.i am flexible about changing all the places except amsterdam and krakow.i have already seen switzerland and parts of germany.
thank you,

I'm not sure I understand. Why dont you spend them in Prague and Vienna?

You can go wherever you want to go...

I've been to Prague, you could easily spend 5 out of the 10 days there seeing the sites and doing day trips out of the city. Budapest and Vienna could take up the remaining 5.

Hi S4,

>I wish to visit amsterdam,prague and vienna and krakow.i want 5 days in amsterdam and 5 days in krakow.i have 10 more days,please advice where i can go.<

How about 5 days in Prague and 5 in Vienna?

((i))

PS, the words are "itinerary" and "adviSe". Proper nouns are capitalized. One puts a space after a comma and two spaces after a period. A question ends with "?" not a eriod.

Amsterdam 5 days
Prague 5 days
Vienna 5 days
Krakow 5 days
Seems a straightforward solution.

("One puts a space after a comma and two spaces after a period."
Not any more, ira. That typing rule went out with typewriters that featured non-proportional type. Computer type is proportional and allows for appropriate spacing without having to type extra spaces. Only one space is needed after any end-punctuation. One space after a period is correct and would helpful to the readers of the original post here.)

savvy - going by train or car or plane?

offhand i would probably take a few days off Krakow and put them somewhere else- I have been to Krakow and personally would not want to spend five whole days there, even though it is incredibly quaint - not a whole lot to see or do in the city itself - unlike IME Prague or Vienna, Amsterdam, etc.

But Krakow does offer two compelling day trips -one goes to the nearby Wieliczka Salt Mines - a UNESCO World Heritage Site - really interesting tour conducted by miners

the other of course goes to Auschwitz-Birkenau (sp?), about an hour from Krakow.

Oh i suppose Zakopane could be a day trip as well but i do not know how long that would take.

Hey elnm
>("One puts a space after a comma and two spaces after a period."
Not any more, ira...............<

The OP had no spaces.

((I))

Yes, ira, thus my last sentence. But two spaces are no longer needed.

yada yada yada yada yada

thank you for the suggestions,(not for the english lessons though!!)
my revised plan --
Amsterdam--5 days
amsterdam to cologne
cologne -- 2 days
cologne to Prague
Prague -- 3 days
Prague to budapest
Budapest -- 2 days
Budapest to Krakow
Krakow -- 5 days
does this seem workable
regards,

Why don't you do Prague, Krakow, and then Budapest and fly home from Budapest. That will give you less time traveling between locations and a bit more time in the cities.

I also count more than 20 days as you'll need a half day for the transit from Amsterdam to Cologne, 1 day each for Cologne to Prague, Prague to Budapest, Budapest to Krakow. Perhaps you're thinking of 1.5 days in Cologne.

(not for the english lessons though!!)

He was doing it to help you. Spaces after words make reading easier; some people don't bother reading posts when all the words run together (or typed in all caps), so you might get fewer responses to your question.

thank you all.I need to go to Krakow for a meeting at a particular time and hence the schedule is so.But will try to see how to rework it if possible.
thanks again and have a good weekend,

hank you for the suggestions,(not for the english lessons though!!)
my revised plan --
Amsterdam--5 days
amsterdam to cologne
cologne -- 2 days
cologne to Prague
Prague -- 3 days
Prague to budapest
Budapest -- 2 days
Budapest to Krakow
Krakow -- 5 days

Seems fine to me at least - my kind of itinerary - if you are going by train then with all those train trips by all means consider the Eurail Select Saver Pass - good in Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg as one unit), Germany, Czech Republic and Hungary - a 4 country Eurail Select Pass that lets you hop on practically any train anytime in these countries - if over 25 the pass only comes in first class and that IMO has huge benefits in making a leisurely trip - lots more empty seats, bigger setas, more room for luggage, etc. Compared to ordinary first-class tickets the pass should be a bargain - From Budapest to Krakow either fly - it's a long train trip or take the overnight train and just pay that fare out of pocket - trains in Poland are still rather cheap. Note a Saver Pass is for two people traveling together at all times - one pass with two names on it and about 20% savings over two individual passes. For loads on train travel in these countries and passes i always highlight these info-laden sites - www.budgeteuropetravel.com; www.ricksteves.com; www.seat61.com- a wealth of info to help anyone plan a rail trip and even lots of useful info for folks not going by rail.

thank you so much.hey by the way didnt mean to be rude about the english lessons.just attempted to be humorous!am browsing alongside working and hence need to hurry with my typing.
thanks anyways for all the tips and links.
Regards from India,
Have a good weekend,

Savy4, I am not meaning to be rude either. This really is well intended. It is very difficult to read and follow a train of thought when sentences run together with no spaces, and phrases run together with no commas. Unfortunately, it may also make a person look as if they are either not educated, or lazy and they just don't care. Since you have a job in which you travel, you must be educated. You are doing your homework, so you are not lazy. I am sure, when you think about it, you would like what you write to be clearly understood by your readers. It may sting (I know this from personal experience), but advice that can actually help you in some way is a good thing.

Have a wonderful trip.

savy4, being from India, IMO does really well for posting in a second language - how would you do in a second language?

Actually, I appreciate any help or corrections people give to me for my Spanish and Italian. Anything that improves my ability to communicate is welcomed.

Plus, it has nothing to do with English to add spaces between sentences. I found the run-ins really hard to read as well.