{"id":277,"date":"2017-10-16T18:22:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T17:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/209.222.30.173\/?p=277"},"modified":"2023-02-15T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T14:00:01","slug":"part-1-from-oslo-to-venice-an-interrailing-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interrailplanner.com\/blog\/part-1-from-oslo-to-venice-an-interrailing-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 1: From Oslo to Venice &#8211; an interrailing adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i>Tim Eustace is re-telling his summer interrail adventure from Oslo to Venice. This is the first blog of a four part series.<\/i><\/p><div class=\"inter-content-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top: 20px;margin-bottom: 20px;\" id=\"inter-2261000413\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4633244982126279\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4633244982126279\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7158573474\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Covering over 5,000km on trains (by my rough calculations) this summer is going to be spent wisely. Being a teacher, I&#8217;ve naturally planned this trip thoroughly, but there&#8217;s no accounting for twists and turns along the way and this has already proven to be the case. Currently on the agenda is: Oslo, Malm\u00f6, Copenhagen, Berlin, Prague, Bratislava, Budapest, Lake Bled, Ljubljana, Pula and Venice but who knows where we may end up!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oslo has been a whirlwind already and certainly lived up to its reputation for being one of the most expensive cities in the world. It&#8217;s quite a challenge budgeting for 32 days when you start in the priciest city and you have the whole trip&#8217;s budget burning a hole in your pocket.<\/p><div class=\"inter-content_2\" style=\"margin-top: 20px;margin-bottom: 20px;\" id=\"inter-562664531\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4633244982126279\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4633244982126279\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7158573474\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Not literally &#8211; in actual fact, I&#8217;m trying to do this as a completely cashless trip. I don&#8217;t have a penny of any currency except for an emergency \u20ac50 which I fully intend to bring back with me. I&#8217;m paying for everything via Monzo and it is superb.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the plane, I knew I would love Oslo. It is greener and more beautiful than you can imagine. It&#8217;s calm, clean and so relaxed. A wonderful city and I could have stayed far longer. The Oslo pass is well worth the money, if for nothing else than the breathtaking boat trip across the fjords. I am sad to leave, but Sweden beckons&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For about 4 months now I have been obsessing over how to solve what I have labelled as the &#8216;Budapest problem&#8217;. Budapest is over halfway through our journey and, crucially, comes before what I&#8217;ve considered to be the peaceful end of the adventure. Croatia is all about relaxing; however, the city breaks are fast paced, and a time for exploring. <a href=\"https:\/\/interrailplanner.com\/blog\/where-should-i-go-interrailing-in-croatia-top-5-places-in-croatia-to-visit\">Where to go in Croatia<\/a> after Budapest was a problem as, because we are flying back from Venice, Split and southern territories were long train rides &#8211; definitely not a one day job and, this far in, that&#8217;s what we wanted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyway, I got so distracted by this issue that during my planning I completely missed the headache that is Oslo-Malm\u00f6. I&#8217;d checked this once early on and it seemed at the top end of reasonable journey (just over 7h) so I gave it no further thought. When it came to making a reservation, the journey was not as I&#8217;d thought &#8211; something had changed. What do you do in a situation like this? Well, be thankful for your flexi pass! No matter, we reserved a train to Stockholm, drank in 2 and a half hours there and then headed over to Malm\u00f6.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The total journey time was the same as heading down the west coast with a number of stops, but this way we managed to sneak in an extra capital city. The flexibility is, after all, what interrailing is all about. Our adventure continues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next stop: Malm\u00f6&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can see Tim&#8217;s fully planned trip and take inspiration for your own trip <a href=\"https:\/\/interrailplanner.com\/plan\/31058\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inter-after-content\" style=\"margin-top: 20px;margin-bottom: 20px;\" id=\"inter-2233994575\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4633244982126279\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4633244982126279\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"8015293915\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Eustace is re-telling his summer interrail adventure from Oslo to Venice. This is the first blog of a four part series. 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