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how long does it take to travel europe?
my friends and i are taking the train fron greece to italy, italy to spain, spain to france, and france to ireland. how long does it take to travel to each country?
I’ve been living here in Italy for the past 11 years and travel most weekends and holidays. I still have enough to see and do that I couldn’t do it all in my lifetime. As far as actual travel times, it makes a difference where you start from and where you want to end up. For example, to get from Ventimiglia in Italy to Menton in France takes only a few minutes by train, but going from Palermo to Paris takes 25 to 35 hours by train.
The German train website is a good resource for planning train travel throughout most of Europe: http://www.bahn.de/i/view/USA/en/index.shtml However, you won’t find a solution for a train trip from Athens or other points in Greece to rome or other points in Italy. You would need to travel around the Adriatic to do that. It would be much more reasonable to take a budget flight: http://www.skyscanner.it/ or http://www.whichbudget.com/
or take a Greek train to one of the places where you can connect to a ferry for Italy: http://www.greekferries.gr/ If you have a railpass, it will cover or at least provide a discount for the ferry.
Similarly, there is only one direct train from Italy to Spain that runs overnight from Milan to Barcelona and it does not run every day. You would need to make train changes for other starting and ending points or days when the direct train is not scheduled. Going from rome to Madrid would take 24 to 35 hours on the train. Flying s a much more convenient option in this case.
You cannot take a train from France to Ireland.
So far it’s taken me 22 years worth of vacations.
Slow down, if you want to love this trip and your time is limited, don’t run around. Pick a region and explore it more thoroughly. For examples: I’ve been to Spain for a total of 5 weeks of my life and have to go back because I still haven’t seen everything I wanted to. I’ve spent more than 6 months in London and still find new things I want to see. I always spend 2-4 days in any new city depending on its size. It also saves money to have short train trips and you spend less time packing up and finding places to stay and more time on the ground seeing amazing things.
With that said, it’s very fast to travel by train. You can travel very far in 3-8 hours per trip. The Eurailpass sites have times between destinations so that can help you plan. Airfares are cheap in Europe too so you might want to consider that instead of train rides longer than 3 hours.
Good luck and have a great time.
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Taking the train from Greece to Italy, you will be wasting too much time on the train. Flying budget is a better option.
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I’ve been living here in Italy for the past 11 years and travel most weekends and holidays. I still have enough to see and do that I couldn’t do it all in my lifetime. As far as actual travel times, it makes a difference where you start from and where you want to end up. For example, to get from Ventimiglia in Italy to Menton in France takes only a few minutes by train, but going from Palermo to Paris takes 25 to 35 hours by train.
The German train website is a good resource for planning train travel throughout most of Europe: http://www.bahn.de/i/view/USA/en/index.shtml However, you won’t find a solution for a train trip from Athens or other points in Greece to rome or other points in Italy. You would need to travel around the Adriatic to do that. It would be much more reasonable to take a budget flight: http://www.skyscanner.it/ or http://www.whichbudget.com/
or take a Greek train to one of the places where you can connect to a ferry for Italy: http://www.greekferries.gr/ If you have a railpass, it will cover or at least provide a discount for the ferry.
Similarly, there is only one direct train from Italy to Spain that runs overnight from Milan to Barcelona and it does not run every day. You would need to make train changes for other starting and ending points or days when the direct train is not scheduled. Going from rome to Madrid would take 24 to 35 hours on the train. Flying s a much more convenient option in this case.
You cannot take a train from France to Ireland.
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