How to go to europe by lovemylife99

"the best 3 weeks of my life... as of then anyway lol"

How I did it: i saved up a few thousands bucks, applied for a passport, bought a rail pass, bought a backpack, bought a plane ticket, and then flew to london to meet up with a friend who was already bumbling around over there.  from there we just kind winged it.  went where ever sounded good and booked hostels online along the way.  we did 7 countries in 24 days.

it took a lot of balls but i found that the more crazy stuff that happened, the more glad i was that i went. 

i was sooooooooooooooo scared to go on this trip but i have a lifetime of memories now that were worth 5 times what the trip cost.

Lessons & tips:

go before you turn 25 so that you can save a ton of money on your rail passes.  i went at age 24. barely made it!  :)

if you can afford it, budget 3 days for each city.  you may decide u want to spend less time in some, in which case just move on.  
try to take night trains as much as possible so that you dont waste time on trains.  

study your language books while you are on trains and take advantage of other passengers to practice your skills!  they may find it entertaining and you will learn soooo much!!  yeah it is embarrassing but you will NEVER see these people again in life. go for it!

Resources: www.hostelworld.com

www.raileurope.com
Rick Steves' Best of Europe 2009  you MUST get this book!!!!


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