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Community for those focused on sustainable travel. Our society's current levels of energy intensive and frequent travel are not compatible with life on a finite planet. We advocate for long-term slow travel to see the world, and low energy local travel to deeply experience your community. Green washing free zone.

related to sustainable travel:

!interrail@discuss.tchncs.de
!trains@midwest.social ← open to all train chatter (but note the instance is centered on the midwest USA)
!rail@feddit.uk ← UK Rail and Trains
!ukpublictransport@feddit.uk ← UK public transport
!maatapitkinmatkustus@sopuli.xyz ← (Finnish) surface travel

related to travel generally:

!travel@eviltoast.org ← general travel
!main@lemmy.globe.pub ← general travel (this whole instance devoted to travel but note there is an instance-wide no politics rule there)
!traveltips@feddit.uk ← Europe focus

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Do you think an Interrail trip through 8 countries in 21 days would be enjoyable? (piefed.social)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by DeckPacker@piefed.social to c/solarpunktravel@slrpnk.net

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So me and some friends are currently planning a trip through Europe. Nothing is really set in stone yet, our first question is if we want to do a roadtrip with a camper-van or an Interrail trip.

I guess the advantage of a train would be, that it would be a lot more enjoyable to cover larger distances than with a camper. I thought, maybe it would be really cool, if we did like a larger tour through Europe, so I researched a bit and planned a hypothetical trip through Germany (where we live) to Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and back to Germany.

That sounds like a lot, but with the train routes, I looked up it would be doable with only 9 travel days, 4 of which would take the whole day (10-12 hours) and 5 of which would only take half a day (4-6 hours). I thought, that could be quite reasonable and it would be a great adventure type trip.

Do you think that could be cool, or would it get exhausting to quick?

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have done these kind of trips when I was younger. It's nice if you enjoy travelling by train (bring some card games) and want to see some city centers / sights.

In retrospect being older now I would say the time spend moving around, checking in and out of hostels etc, just to see some old buildings and ultimatly quite unremarkable urban tourist sights isn't really worth it. But it is this kind of bucket list activity younger people do to later smugly explain that it isn't really worth it 😅

[–] groet@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah I agree. I also decided some time ago that I'd rather only see some small parts of a country instead of moving every two days during a holiday.

With a itinerary like OP I'd choose one thing to do per country (and not just visit the capital in each and then continue). Maybe choose one museum in Denmark, then a 2 day hike in Sweden, then a sauna by the lake in Finland, then maybe actually visit a city like Riga of Tallinn, then go horse riding in poland.