BootsnAll Travel Community

The Evil plan (Insert maniacal laughter here.)

Lets say you want to travel Europe...

Lets say you pick somewhere in Germany/France. Frankfurt or Paris for transportation purposes.

Go for as big a rail pass as you can afford...

Take Tuesday and thursday classes, stash lots of cash. Looong weekend.

My question: Where can I find a decent time table that is understandable in my low level of comprehension? I'd like to see where I can go, how far it is between all the different places.

Do you guys and gals think this idea has some merit to it? I assume that Madrid, Athens, and Stockholm are a bit farther than a night train... but I dont know for sure. Havent found a list of how long it takes to get from place to place.

Thanks!



Edit: I'm definetly not saying madrid to athens... but Paris to madrid/back, Frankfurt to Stockholm and back.

On second thought... europe is a lot bigger than it looks!

If you're looking for trains, there is a brilliant multi-national train schedule hosted by Die Bahn - you might need to use actual place names (rather than their English versions) for some routes.

There are loads of coach networks but Eurolines has by far the largest network (500+ major cities) - tickets include ferry crossings.

Given the choice - I'd fly, I know it's bad for the environment, but it's really cheap - plant a few trees when you get home if it makes you feel better

Well this guy has some pretty good info at Seat 61. And he reccomends the Thomas Cook timetable for overland directions to anywhere in the world. Of course I think that you have to pay for the Thomas Cook stuff.

Thanks guys!

That Seat 61 site is a gold mine...

Ahem! "Timetable" and "goldmine"

Not "time table" and "gold mine".

pedantically yours,

Joe

Thanks especially to joe for adding some humor to my day.

hey
well, regarding timetables you can also just go to the local websites of the country (germany e.g. bahn.de) there you can normally type in from where you want to go to which city and it will show how long the trip is and how many timees you gotta change the train.
but,...i would consider in your case to think about flights, it really takes long to go by train, you will use approx. one day per trip. since ryanair, easyjet, air berlin, germanwings etc. all over really cheap tickets it might be another option. furthermore there are also lots of special offers from the train compny, like berlin-prag 19 euros,..etc. if you watch out for those you will travel a lot cheaper than with a euro pass.
well, have fun and if you need some recommandations other than the capitals, let me know

eh..sorry joe, time tables of course although that's probl. not the only mistake...

quote:

Originally posted by Joe Ehrlich:
Ahem! "Timetable" and "goldmine"

Not "time table" and "gold mine".

pedantically yours,

Joe

I'm intrigued. Do you write "redwoodforest" and "oilrig" as well?

Curiously yours...

I do not. It would be "redwood forest" or "oil rig".

However, I do use "cheekyPOM".

Ahh, grammatical humor.