Itinerary: Backpacking through Europe
- Rachael Mora
- Aug 19, 2016
- 2 min read
A couple people have asked about our itinerary! I’ll probably do some sort of write up of Busabout when we get back for specifics, but since I’ve done this before here’s a quick summary of how it works and where we’re going.
Busabout is a tour bus company that arranges travel between pre-determined cities in Europe, recommends hostels, arranges tours if you want, etc. I travelled on busabout with a good friend a few years ago and it was a blast – very “hands off” if you don’t want a super scheduled “tour bus feel”, but helps eliminate some of the stress getting trains, planning all your own transportation, etc. – plus you make a bunch of friends on the way. They have some specific loops you can do, but we’re doing a “Hop on/hop off” tour so we’ll just get buses to and from the cities we want to stop in then catch the next bus every other day. We’ll be moving around a lot. (Read more about busabout here!)
Our specific itinerary is:
Fly in and out of London. From London, we’ll fly to Budapest where we’ll start trekking out way through southern Europe. We’ll hit Budapest – Split – Venice – Rome – Florence – Cinque Terre – Nice – Barcelona – Valencia – Madrid, then fly to Berlin for a few days with a friend and back to London to fly out – and to top it off because we totally weren’t going enough places, we’ll be stopping for a night in Toronto with a friend on the way home!
Whew! And to think I wanted to do this for my honeymoon. Probably best Felipe got me to wait and spend our honeymoon relaxing in a resort :p.
Just for my organizational nuts – I use trello for all aspects of my life. I have a “Europe” board where I have a card for each city that has our lodging information, tickets, necessary documentation, comments with things I want to try to hit while there, etc. I threw all that info into one PDF document for light plane reading for the hubs and because I love pretty organized things.
Check out the template here if you’re planning a trip and want a starting point for your own visually appealing travel doc! I added our tickets to each “section” of the document (not shown here for privacy reasons) and basically I just saved each “city” separately as a PDF, then saved the tickets as PDFs, numbered them correctly, then put them all in one document using PDF merge so they’d show up nicely and cleanly together.
Download the template I made by clicking here!
Also, download trello whether planning a trip or not because trello is life. And free.
Check it out here.
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