A blog full of guidance and inspiration for your European rail trip.
If you’re planning to visit Spain then you’ll be glad to know that it has some fantastic national transport links that can get you from one place to another with relative ease. In fact, travelling through Spain via train has become one of the more popular, affordable and laid-back ways to experience the country in…
Eurail gives travellers to Europe an exciting opportunity for an iconic and scenic journey across the continent. You want to take charge of this and make sure you plan out every facet of your trip as much as possible. The best way of achieving this is to make sure you use Eurail Planner as much…
Exploring Tuscany by rail sounds like it’s a pretty impossible feat. Surely, there are too many old mountainous towns around there, and shouldn’t you just head to Florence, anyway? However, whilst you may need to be a strategic planner, there are actually many amazing Tuscan towns that you can add to your Eurail trip around…
Italy is one of the hotspots for people on Eurorail trips around Europe, which won’t really come as a surprise to many, considering its fame. If you are planning on visiting Italy on your Eurail journey then Venice is absolutely worth considering. Although you could stay in the town for two weeks and still have…
We’ve launched a new website: Japan Rail Planner! Anyone visiting Japan as a tourist is eligible for a Japan Rail pass (also known as a JR pass), which is similar to a Eurail pass in that it lets you travel on the rail network for a certain period of time, without having to buy individual…
Eurail is running an Early Bird promotion with 10% off all Eurail passes until Tuesday 9th April! Buy your Eurail pass for any travelling you’re doing within the next 11 months! Makes sense, right? If you’re heading to Europe this summer, grab a Eurail pass to explore 31 countries at your leisure and save up…
Italy is offers a lot in its cultural heritage, fashion and beautiful scenery, but the first Italian thing that comes to mind to most of us are their pizza and pasta. If you’re a food enthusiast yourself and would love to try these dishes in their most authentic form, then there is no other place…
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59 years after the Eurail scheme was launched, the UK has got on board! Today, Eurail announced the addition of three countries that can be travelled to on the Eurail pass: the United Kingdom, Lithuania and Macedonia. There are also a bundle of new pass options, including the option to travel 2nd class as an…
If you are interested in art, then this article is certainly going to be for you. We have selected five of the best art galleries in Europe that you can easily reach with your Eurail pass and experience all the wonderful art that this continent has to offer. Let’s look at these five galleries to…
Europe has thousands of cities worth visiting on a Eurotrip. Some offer the wonders of old-world Europe while others provide travellers with exciting new sights and sounds. Eastern Europe, in many ways, is still an unspoiled travel destination. The Berlin Wall fell just over 28 years ago, and the Eastern half of the continent is…
Italy is a wonderful place for a summer Eurail trip: from the seaside to the mountains this country has it all with all its natural wonder, culture, and history. It is said that in Italy there is 70% of the world heritage. This might be a meaningless estimate but Italy is not just a mere…
Is Croatia on your list of places you need to visit on your European rail adventure? If not, it should be! With so many places to go to, you could spend a whole month of your Eurotrip in Croatia alone! Pula Located on the Istrian Peninsula, Pula has always been prized for its strategic position…
The journey of the Game Of Thrones franchise over the past several years has been a remarkable one. The original book was published in 1996 and received relatively little attention outside of a specific fantasy novel community (which, that said, is no small community). Just over 20 years later, that book and its sequels have…
There’s nothing quite like a Eurail through Europe in summer; whether you end up joining local people enjoying cold beers and glasses of wine at terrace bars and cafes in continental cities, hiking through sundrenched Alpine mountains or lounging on Mediterranean beaches. We bet you haven’t even thought about going to a music festival while…
Good travel writing makes for the ideal travelling companion. Its kaleidoscopic blend of history, politics, and personal experience creates a truly interdisciplinary, and, in my opinion, highly rewarding, genre. Here is a selection of Europe’s best: Border, Kapka Kassabova Border concerns the author’s journey around the border territory between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. It explores…
Europe has a huge variety of amazing national holidays to dive into to really make the most of your time on your Eurotrip, connecting with authentic sides of the culture and history of some of the most enchanting European nations. Are you ready to discover what dates to mark your calendar for? Let’s get started!…
Can’t wait to go on your Eurotrip adventure and want to get yourself in the mood for Eurailing? Watch some classic films you haven’t got around to seeing yet, and enjoy good cinema as well as the prospect of your European travels. The four films chosen below are set in four popular European destinations, which…
It would be wrong to judge anyone for thinking first of Amsterdam when planning an Eurorail adventure across Europe. After all, it’s without question one of the continent’s most beautiful cities and a destination that should be on everyone’s bucket list. The real shame would be to not consider stopping off on your journey through…
I first visited Madrid on my first ever European rail trip, as a stopover on the way to Pamplona (where we watched the famous bull run). Through a combination of spending only a short amount of time there and eating some extremely salty calamari, I didn’t really have the best time there and wasn’t too…