Post by cnlneenan on Jan 8, 2004 18:16:07 GMT -5
Oh so close, but not quite, to 100. Oh well, I guess we can deal with that. Nevertheless...
As many of you may have figured out from various posts throughout these boards, my wife and I are doing a 3 month trip starting March 11th to do a lot of Western Europe backpacking.
We'll be staying mostly in hostels, with the occaisional B&B when we can afford it to still get some privacy here and there (not to mention double rooms). Below is our tentative list of cities that we'd like to go to, but we haven't gotten far enough to say how many days (so I'll just estimate what we may be leaning towards). Any input is MUCH APPRECIATED as we've never done this before!!
Cities to visit (somewhat in order, but can be moved around as there's no "clear" round path we can take).
London (3 days)
Amsterdam (7 days)
Brugge (4 days)
Berlin (5 days)
Prague (4 days)
Vienna (3 days)
Munich (4 days)
Gimmelwald (4 days)
Venice (3 days)
Florence (7 days)
Rome (8 days)
Athens (1 Night)
Greek Islands (8 Nights)
Nice (4 days)
Barcelona (5 days)
Madrid (4 days)
Lisbon (4 days)
Paris (7 days)
Amsterdam (5 days)
Dublin (5 days)
Edinburgh (4 days)
London (4 days)
The number of days doesn't add up (I don't think) because I just through out ball park figures and really have no idea as to what amount of time may be appropriate for each place. We know for sure that we want to spend a good amount of time in Amsterdam at first, Rome, Florence and Paris. We'll then be making a stop back at Amsterdam about 3/4 of the way through the trip for a buddy's birthday there. I'm thinking we'll probably just buy a round trip ticket from London to Amsterdam and and use the first leg at the beginning and the final one to get back to Ireland and the UK.
What do you all think of the route (as far as order of the cities) and would you change any of the days (ie: one place may not have enough for 4 days) stayed or if you would drop a city and add another altogether.
Again, All input is welcomed, THANKS!!
Chris and Leah
P.S. I've seen topics about this covered and am still puzzled. If we're wanting to have Athens and the Greek Islands in our trip, is the best way to just take the ferry from Brindisi (sp?) to Corfu and the same going back or would we be better off flying. Cost isn't too much of an issue as we get planned, but will be once we're on our trip so something like that we'll probably want to book ahead for. Maybe taking the ferry there for the experience (and to see Corfu) and then booking a one way out to some other city. Any suggestions?
As many of you may have figured out from various posts throughout these boards, my wife and I are doing a 3 month trip starting March 11th to do a lot of Western Europe backpacking.
We'll be staying mostly in hostels, with the occaisional B&B when we can afford it to still get some privacy here and there (not to mention double rooms). Below is our tentative list of cities that we'd like to go to, but we haven't gotten far enough to say how many days (so I'll just estimate what we may be leaning towards). Any input is MUCH APPRECIATED as we've never done this before!!
Cities to visit (somewhat in order, but can be moved around as there's no "clear" round path we can take).
London (3 days)
Amsterdam (7 days)
Brugge (4 days)
Berlin (5 days)
Prague (4 days)
Vienna (3 days)
Munich (4 days)
Gimmelwald (4 days)
Venice (3 days)
Florence (7 days)
Rome (8 days)
Athens (1 Night)
Greek Islands (8 Nights)
Nice (4 days)
Barcelona (5 days)
Madrid (4 days)
Lisbon (4 days)
Paris (7 days)
Amsterdam (5 days)
Dublin (5 days)
Edinburgh (4 days)
London (4 days)
The number of days doesn't add up (I don't think) because I just through out ball park figures and really have no idea as to what amount of time may be appropriate for each place. We know for sure that we want to spend a good amount of time in Amsterdam at first, Rome, Florence and Paris. We'll then be making a stop back at Amsterdam about 3/4 of the way through the trip for a buddy's birthday there. I'm thinking we'll probably just buy a round trip ticket from London to Amsterdam and and use the first leg at the beginning and the final one to get back to Ireland and the UK.
What do you all think of the route (as far as order of the cities) and would you change any of the days (ie: one place may not have enough for 4 days) stayed or if you would drop a city and add another altogether.
Again, All input is welcomed, THANKS!!
Chris and Leah
P.S. I've seen topics about this covered and am still puzzled. If we're wanting to have Athens and the Greek Islands in our trip, is the best way to just take the ferry from Brindisi (sp?) to Corfu and the same going back or would we be better off flying. Cost isn't too much of an issue as we get planned, but will be once we're on our trip so something like that we'll probably want to book ahead for. Maybe taking the ferry there for the experience (and to see Corfu) and then booking a one way out to some other city. Any suggestions?
The main things I really like are: Brugges instead of Brussels, 1 day in Athens and heading straight to the islands and enough time in each place to really enjoy it. Bravo!