Hey guys so every summer my family goes to morocco and im tired of it this summer 2027 i would turn 20 years and i thought it would be perfect to skip morocco and go on a solo 15 day trip around Europe but the thing is i don’t know where to start i have a few destinations in mind but i don’t know how to plan everything and i recently discovered Interrail via Tik Tok and was curious about it how do yall plan your trips ?
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As a first time solo traveler where should i go my depart country is Belgium
+6My first IR trips always started with the Interrail Map. Back in days on paper, but I don’t know if you can still get that, but here you get it as PDF: https://www.interrail.com/content/dam/_new-structure/visual/maps/interrail_map_2026.pdf
Just choose a first destination, and go ahead. Ask yourself, how much time are you okay with spending on a train per leg. How often do you want to continue? every day? every 2nd day? something in between? (for me personally average 1.5 nights per place turned out to be the best)
In begin and end of the trip, consider night trains, or spending a full day on a train, to make some distance.
In order to give you concrete tips, you might want to tell us the few destinations you have in mind?
Hii! Thank you so much for your response! I’m not sure if these destinations would work, but I was thinking about the South of France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Albania and Greece haha.
Since all of these countries are in Europe, I thought it might be possible to visit some of them by train. And honestly, even if I only manage to visit a few of them, I’d be perfectly happy! I could always fly to the others another time.
I’m really open to different ideas and suggestions. At the end of the day, I just want to travel, explore new places, experience different cultures and discover as much of the world as I can! 💗
+8France and Spain are a bit of a pain because of the many mandatory seat reservations for long distance trains. Albania and Greece can not be reached by rail alone. (And 15 days are a too short to get to greece and back with time to explore other places along the way.)
Switzerland is great, especially if you like to hike. (although eating out is on the expensive side)
Switzerland and Italy make sense together.
Germany, Austria and Switzerland are really great in terms of basicly no mandatory reservations needed.
+8Without knowing your interests its hard to give more specific tips other then based on the train connections.
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