This is the plan I just made, but not for sure if I should add more places to visit. Please give me your advise ! I was gonna buy the euro rail pass but since it's sort of expensive, I'm going to buy local train tickets and airplane tickets to keep everything as cheap as possible.
Okay, here is my plan how to travel around Europe
ROMA, ITALY
FIRENZE, ITALY
VENEZIA, ITALY
MILANO, ITALY
BERN, SWITZERLAND
BARCELONA, SPAIN
MADRID, SPAIN
PARIS, FRANCE
LONDON, ENGLAND
BRUXELLES, BELGIUM
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
DENMARK
KOBENHAVN, SWEDEN
BERLIN, GERMANY
PRAHA, CZECH REPUBLIC
WIEN, AUSTRIA
GRAZ, AUSTRIA
VIENNA, AUSTRIA
and also please suggest to me how long I should stay in each country.
I've never been to Europe and I have no idea how long I should stay to see enough stuff.
I've got 2 and a half months to travel around and I think that's pretty enough for these countries.
anyway, I'm looking for so much advice! thank you!
I suggest you look at a map of Europe and describe a circle with the cities you wish to visit. I would suggest a good 2 days per city and add one day between each for travel (train is best.)
Its wise to start in the north (Copenhagen, Denmark) and travel down south - ending up in the wery south of Spain - the Costa del Sol. Taking the return flight from Malaga airport (AGP).
If you are in Vienna, I would recomand you to spend also one day in Bratislava. Just one day, going there in the morning and back in the evening. That's really enough to explore that city. It's really near to Vienna and easy to reach from there. There is a ticket which cost 15 Euro for both ways and the public transport in Bratislava.
start in denmark and and work south go through holland .belgium ..germany ..austria ..italy ..then through to france and spain ..you could pick up andora ..luxemburg ..leichenstein on your way through from belguim ...remember europe cools down in october ..you could get snow by november in scandanavia ..thats why i said start north
Two and a half months gives you 4 or 5 days on average in each location since Copenhagen is Denmark and Wien is Vienna. You don't want to do these in the order listed. A more natural transition is Amsterdam -> Berlin -> Copenhagen -> Prague to avoid having to backtrack. You might want to take a little less time in Venice, Milan, Bern and Graz and more time in cities like Rome, Paris, London Berlin and Prague which will give you time for a few day trips from those bases.
There is a huge amount of train information on the Man in Seat 61 website on train travel here: http://www.seat61.com/ . This includes much more than there is room for here. It is not always cheaper to use a railpass - it depends on your specific trip. It is almost always cheaper to buy individual tickets in Italy for example. The site will tell you how to tell whether a railpass is cheaper than individual tickets, which pass is best for your trip (if any), and how to use a railpass if you do get one. You need to know that many high speed trains, international trains and night trains require reservations and an additional payment when you use a railpass. The high speed trains in Italy cost an additional 10 euro when using a pass. Pay particular attention to the sections of the website on common mistakes in various countries and the section on Quotas. There are also links to the various national train websites where you can find schedules and prices for individual tickets.
You might also want to compare rail costs with budget flights: http://www.skyscanner.com/
BARCELONA, SPAIN
Kobenhavn is in Denmark, not Sweden. And Wien and Vienna are the same thing.
