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The train ticket that revolutionized European rail travel
- sokoloff 4y agoI have incredibly fond memories of traveling on a Eurail pass while interning in Germany. I’d work Mon-Fri, leaving a little early on Friday to catch a train somewhere to have dinner in a new place, then usually an overnight train (aka free hostel), spend a weekend someplace (sometimes with a hostel, sometimes using another train), then take an overnight train back directly into work (where we had showers).
- pjc50 4y agoMy own Interrail experience 20 years ago was remarkably like that described. I had the 21-day pass, and went round in a big circle through central Europe. Paris, Cologne, Berlin, Pisa, Florence, Vienna, Venice, Zurich, Paris again. Possibly more places I've forgotten. Sleep was a mixture of "couchette" trains, youth hostels, zero-star hotels, and some incredibly helpful Italians letting us stay. There were three of us, and like the guy in the story we split and rejoined. We had no cellphones, no GPS, no maps except the little paper ones given free to tourists, and no planning. Just the Thomas Cook Rail Timetable, the book of power. We could and did decide to go to a different country because it was raining.
- jcrash 4y agoHas anyone here done this in recent times? As an under 27 person, this sounds incredible. Is it still worth it?