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?
Don’t spend half your holiday on a train or driving a campervan - the moving-around part of travel is really not great.
I completely disagree, I travel mainly in a campervan and the moving-around part is a lot of fun, we get to see what a place looks like from outside the touristic areas and it’s slow enough to make you feel the distances. To me you miss most of your trip when you travel by plane or don’t move around much.
It might be a little short. I’d say 2 full days at a location is probably a good place to be, as long as you have rest in between (your travel days).
I think on later trips you could stay longer in areas you really liked or explore further in those areas.
Have fun on your trip :)
