NEW SERIES: Travel Europe With Your BFF! Planning Guide, Ideas, and Tips
Sick of work? Ready for a vacation? Summer break need something exciting? sounds like a EUROPE TRIP! Where do you start? Go along with me and my best friend as we plan out our epic one week trip through Europe going through 4 countries and a different city every day.
There are lots of things you need to do to get ready for your adventure, so grab a pen & paper, iPad or stone & chisel and get to note taking.
- Choosing your destinations - Scroll Down!
- Spreadsheets galore Find them here!
- Planning with a Friend -Start Planning Here!
- Determining your budget - Click Here!
- Buying Airplane Tickets (March 31st)
- What to Pack (April 4th)
- Trains, Planes, and Automobiles (April 9th)
- Where to stay? (April 17th)
- One month to go! (April 21st)
- Itinerary or wing it? (April 24th)
First things first: Where do you want to go?
There are cities you have dreamed about forever, obsessed over on Pinterest, and cut and pasted to your cork board in your room. Start making a list of these places, no matter how crazy or far off. Make a Pinterest board, a google doc, and/or a scrap piece of paper and go crazy. Because my best friend is in another country we rely on social media and messaging to get everything done, so Pinterest and google docs work best for us. We created a shared board with a map and pinned away! As long as every pin we post had a place tagged we could see all of the points we wanted to hit on a nicely laid out map. Right away we could see what was just not going to work this time (KEY WORD! We will be coming back for sure!) and what seemed to be in a perfect path from one major hub to another. We both knew Nuremberg would be a definite (No need for a hostel where I live of course!), and Paris would be our destination to fly in to (Read how I found a flight to paris for $250!) so we just needed to decide on the rest of the days destinations.
After much debate and sad crosses off our lists, our destinations were planned! The cities will be: Paris, Brussels, Belgium, Prague, Nuremberg, Wurzberg, and Frankfurt in that order. We are doing a loop around to make sure our end destination is a main hub so finding a cheap and reliable flight back will be easier. 4 countries in 9 days! Each destination was picked based on a combination of pure excitement, number of things to do based on Pinterest and trip advisor, reviews and friends experiences in Europe. Paris will be a day and a third because of our late arrival, nuremberg being my home base will need two days, and Frankfurt will really only be half a day due to flying back, and of course you need to account for transportation times, tour times, attraction waits, and the normal things like eating/sleeping/shenanigans etc. It is going to be a jam packed week with little to no sleep and way too much fun!
Coming March 15th!