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I know that Barnes and Noble has sold their soul to the devil by partnering with starbucks, but while I was there tonight I picked up a book titled "Europe by Eurail: 2004" or something along that line. It seems like a pretty good book to have--only $18.95. It has some decent iteneraries, and I believe sponsors www.railpass.com. At the very least we could go meet there (or if yeiser insists, go to that heine brothers connected to the bookshop on bardstown and see if they have a similar book) and sit around and read it and make decisions from there. Kind of like an official EuroTrip staff meeting.
I think the important thing to do, that is if you really plan on doing it, is getting everyone interested to pick a three or four week period that they can definitely go, and/or a two week period that they really want to go, so that we can make a decision when we're going. It sounded to me when talking to Hinton that he wanted to go in between spring and fall semesters, even though it sounded to me from yeiser that we were thinking strictly early fall, like august. Who else has discussed actually doing this besides us three? If you know of someone write their name down and figure out when they would be able to go. If we're going to make this a group thing, then it would make the most since to all go at the same time and do the Eurail Flexi selectpass where we have to travel in a group of 2 to 5 between 5 different contiguous countries for like 10 days. If we're going to go to europe and stay in hostels, I say we stay as long as possible and see as much as we can fit; 10 days of travel in 2 months sounds good enough.
In the book I was reading, if I had to suggest five countries to pick, I would pick 1) France (paris, lyon, marseilles, Nice), 2) Italy (rome, venice, milan), 3) Germany (Munich, Berlin, Southern Bavaria, Hamburg, frankfort), 4) Benelux (which is really 2 countries, BElgium (belgium) and NEtherlands (amsterdam)--technically 3 but no one really considers LUXembourg a country--this might not seem logical but just remember, waffles & chocolate and you have to witness the liberal-ness of amsterdam) and 5)either Austria, Denmark, Poland, Spain, or Switzerland, the last country list being in alphabetic order as to not blantantly show my preference. Of course I found out that you could count a boat trip between certain countries as one of your trips, so apparently italy is "connected" to greece, which would be pretty cool to juxtapose rome and athens. Also, somehow ireland is connected to like france and germany or something by boat, but the list I saw didn't have england anywhere, which leads me to believe that eurail doesn't cover england. According to that railpass website, If I want to go to the Austria, france, england, germany, benelux, and italy, I would have to by the eurail selectpass AND a eurostar ticket for the chunnel, and it also suggests a 4 day britrail pass, which may or may not be necessary. There is a pretty remarkable price difference between adult and youth (<26yrs old) passes, but I'm not sure how worth saving the money is since youth=2nd class and adult=1st class. When we travelled by the train in Germany this past january we travelled 1st class, and although I didn't check out 2nd class, some of our group did and seemed very happy that we were in 1st class. However, I'm not sure that 2nd class could be much worse than staying in hostels. And money is money. With the 5 country 10 day/2 month youth(2ndclass) saver selectpasses and the eurostar(chunnel) and 4 day britrail pass, it's $654 compared to the same thing with first class @ $890--a savings of $236 dollars over 1st class, which is $24 per day you math genius-es.
Anyways, I still don't know what we would do once we got into each city, which would probably depend on where the hostel was that we were staying at. Most cities that I've been to in europe (the big ones) are almost necessary to have metro/subway passes which are probably separate from eurail.
Anyways, we should set a more definite date, and then have a staff meeting at a bookstore to make use of a "free" guidebook.
--lasoski
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