Interrail - Bosnia, Slovakia, Croatia, etc

Random

We're looking at doing some interrailing for 2 weeks or so.

Places include Croatia, Slovakia and Bosnia ... what are these places like? Are they safe?

I keep thinking of the news a few years ago with peacekeepers and what not.

mac123

was in croatia when i was interrailin last summer. it was definately safe, theres nothin to worry about although we did meet a footie hooligan who loved the irish or was it the ra?? not sure about bosnia but slovakia would be grand.

Random

Croatia / Slovenia / Hungary / Slovakia / Poland it is now!

mac123

yeah good choice. hungary and poland are top spots. very cheap and dont get me started on the women

Nordie

I was in Croatia three weeks ago and no probs at all, very cheap and the people are sound. Also a few friends travelled to Solvena earlier in the year and they had a great time, no probs there either.

Random

We're trying to find a good spot to stop in Slovakia. We're going from Budapest to Krakow ... we were gonna choose Koisce but it turns out there's about 50 changes between there and Krakow because of a mountain range

stepperupper

Our inter-railing route goes around there this summer too but staying out of bosnia:

1. Amsterdam
2. Dortmund
3. Berlin
4. Prague
5. Vienna
6. Bratislava
7. Budapest
8. Zagreb
9. Ljubljana
10. Venice
11. Florence
12. Rome

...home. Of course that's not set in stone! We're getting a 1 month pass and we think we'll sleep on night trains whenever we get de chance.

ScumLord

I was in Slovakia last year, near Kosice. Went to a ice hockey game there, €8 for front row seat tickets. The people where really cool in the town we where in and treated us like kings buying us drink and getting us stonned it was great.

Try and get to Cesky Krumlov in Czech, it's an old medievil town perfectly preserved, its where they film hostel really cool looking town. It's down in the south east of the country.

Rineanna

I passed through Bratislava inter-railin' last summer. It's really nice, not too much to do, but it's dirt cheap aswell.

Zebra3

stepperupper wrote:

9. Ljubljana

It can be very quiet there during the summer. If you can head for Lake Bled instead.

alex07

im going interrailing with a few mates next summer but i'll still only be 17. We'll be visiting Holland, Germany, Poland, Austria, Slovakia, Czech rep., croatia and serbia. I'm just wondering will i have any problem going out at night with my mates(who will all be 18) or getting served at pubs etc. in these countries. Thanks a lot!

CantGetNoSleep

alex07 wrote: »

im going interrailing with a few mates next summer but i'll still only be 17. We'll be visiting Holland, Germany, Poland, Austria, Slovakia, Czech rep., croatia and serbia. I'm just wondering will i have any problem going out at night with my mates(who will all be 18) or getting served at pubs etc. in these countries. Thanks a lot!

Slovakia is ****, don't go there, trust me on that

I went interrailing this summer when I was 19, didn't get asked for i.d. once, a lot of the time we were drinking during the day, only went to night clubs a few times and some of these didnt even have bouncers

I don't think 18 is the drinking age in all of these countries, its 15, 16 or 17 in a lot of European places

alex07

cheers for that
ive heard that about slovakia from a few people now-will have to change plans
one other thing to ask-is romania worth visiting? Bucharest is a bit out of the way but is there anywhere good closer to hungary? thanks

empirix

stepperupper wrote: »

Our inter-railing route goes around there this summer too but staying out of bosnia:

1. Amsterdam
2. Dortmund
3. Berlin
4. Prague
5. Vienna
6. Bratislava
7. Budapest
8. Zagreb
9. Ljubljana
10. Venice
11. Florence
12. Rome

...home. Of course that's not set in stone! We're getting a 1 month pass and we think we'll sleep on night trains whenever we get de chance.

drop Dortmund there bud and go straight to Berlin, not much to do in Dortmund, while Berlin is absolutely cracking - possibly the best city in Europe - enjoy!

masseyno9

empirix wrote: »

drop Dortmund there bud and go straight to Berlin, not much to do in Dortmund, while Berlin is absolutely cracking - possibly the best city in Europe - enjoy!

I'd say he's done his trip by now mate.
That comment was posted in may!!