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wplemon35 Member United States of America	# Posted: 7 Aug 2005 14:15:43 I am trying to figure out where I want to go for my 30 day-2 month trip to Europe. This is the easy part....Everywhere. The problem is where can I afford and what do I have time for. The list of where I want to go is as follows: London (a must as we land here) Paris Bordeaux Barcelona Marseille Monaco Lyon Geneva Bern Zurich Milan Venice Vienna Prague Munich Stuttgart Frankfurt Cologne Berlin Hamburg Amsterdam Brussels As I said I want to see everything. This list is in semi-clockwise order. (The order in which I will be traveling) I know this is an enormous list and that what I need help with. What should I cut out? How long should I plan on staying at each place? Please help! Also, how much time would be appropriate for each location?

debbby Member	# Posted: 4 Jan 2007 16:39:11 I'd reccommend you visiting Bulgaria as well, but instead of the cities, the smaller towns and resorts [URL snipped by admin]
HorseHead Mcgee Member	# Posted: 18 Jan 2007 22:12:01 Honestly, Europe (no offense to the Europeans on this forum) is over rated. It's really expensive (no matter where you go, unless you go to non-Euro zone countries) so there is not a whole lot of value. Mathematically, to even make that schedule worth it, you would need 63 days. That assumes spending at least 2 nights in each city, so that gives you 1 full day of sightseeing. However, with that kind of itinerary, you're going to be spending a ton of time with your head berried in train schedules and a lot of time on trains. Also, what a lot of people fail to realize is, just how exhausting this kind of travel can be. I can guarantee that after about 3 weeks, you are going to want to park-it somewhere for 4-5 nights and take a breather. You seem to have a disproportionate amount of German cities on the list. Any particular reason? I think you could probably dump a few of those. You can do the whirlwind tour, but what I enjoyed more was picking one or 2 countries and spending a lot of time in each. I recently did 2 months in Greece and 2 months in Italy. I am glad because you really get a much better experience than just hitting a few major cities and then moving on. Also, I notice you don't have Rome on the list. Rome is great city (of all the capital cities I have been to, Rome is one of my favorites).