Having missed out in my youth, I thought that was that – until I took a revelatory trip with my sons. We’re going again this year, says Guardian Opinion production editor Phil Mongredien
The Eurail Pass is fucking insanely good for this kinda stuff. You pay 286€ and then within a month you can pick any 7 days to travel to the next place you want to stay at for a few days. On those 7 days you can then take as many trains as you want anywhere in Europe (Not just EU). Thats just the most used version tho. There are lots of variants (4, 5, 10, 15 days in one month) or (15days - 3months of constant travel)
Unless you travel to countries in which the railways suffer from a disease that makes them think they are Airlines. (Italy, Spain, France) They take every joy out of it, with the mandatory reservation bullshit (I mean, the upcharge itself is annoying, but what really makes my blood boil is that you need to reserve every train 2-4 weeks in advance)
The Eurail Pass is fucking insanely good for this kinda stuff. You pay 286€ and then within a month you can pick any 7 days to travel to the next place you want to stay at for a few days. On those 7 days you can then take as many trains as you want anywhere in Europe (Not just EU). Thats just the most used version tho. There are lots of variants (4, 5, 10, 15 days in one month) or (15days - 3months of constant travel)
Yup, I already did that once and it was pretty great! And also it’s much less stressfull, because you can literally take any train
Unless you travel to countries in which the railways suffer from a disease that makes them think they are Airlines. (Italy, Spain, France) They take every joy out of it, with the mandatory reservation bullshit (I mean, the upcharge itself is annoying, but what really makes my blood boil is that you need to reserve every train 2-4 weeks in advance)
Only the high speed ones tho i think right?
No, in Spain and France they have now too some Mandatory Reservation Regional Services.
And their shitty low cost subsidiaries also don’t participate in Interrail
Like I’ve said, it’s a disease and it seems contagious