Overview – Overland to Istanbul
As part of InterRail’s 50 year anniversary celebrations they ran a special promotion offering an old codger like me three months rail travel throughout Europe for the grand sum of £341.00.
For my second trip using this InterRail pass I decided to travel overland from Dusseldorf to Istanbul via the Rhine valley, Austria, Romania and Bulgaria. I also added a one way outbound flight from London to Dusseldorf on British Airways at the give away price of £17.50 + 4750 avios points and a one way return flight on Pegasus Airlines from Istanbul to London for £105.00. This was all topped off with some 17 nights of accommodation for an average price of less than £50.00 per night.
An overview of the whole route through Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey is depicted on the map below.
More detailed maps showing this route through:
- the Rhine valley;
- within Austria; and
- through Romania and Bulgaria
are shown on the next page.
A detailed itinerary is also presented on the following page, detailing each step of the journey and providing links to daily blogs for each of these steps.
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