Weekend Trip/Holiday

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Originally Posted by Cozwin

you got any links that would be useful as this sounds very useful and a good idea, and i think i may renew my passport some day, but would i have to or?

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This is a very good site for finding the best way by rail or ferry from the UK abroad:

http://www.seat61.com/

Youth hostels are quite hit and miss despite my praise of that one in Switzerland (I'll dig out the name if you decide you want to go there!) I've found tripadvisor quite good, but googling the name is always worth the effort.

As for the cheap coach tickets, depends where you want to go, its often best to do it that way round. Coaches are a lot cheaper but will take at least twice the time of the train, often more, so its not a bad idea if you've got plenty of time (and there are plenty of sleeper coaches too).

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Originally Posted by TheAnimus

Youth hostels are quite hit and miss despite my praise of that one in Switzerland (I'll dig out the name if you decide you want to go there!) I've found tripadvisor quite good, but googling the name is always worth the effort.

As for the cheap coach tickets, depends where you want to go, its often best to do it that way round. Coaches are a lot cheaper but will take at least twice the time of the train, often more, so its not a bad idea if you've got plenty of time (and there are plenty of sleeper coaches too).

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Time isn't a problem, i just said weekend as its generally cheaper. As for places to go i haven't got a clue, id love to go anywhere beyond England i have only ever been to Austria so anywhere else would be amazing to see.

further to what I said in PM, once you know where your going, try looking for night coaches. Sleep on the coach and you've rounded your two greatest costs (accomodation and transport) into one.

Going round a place on a shoestring budget is quite fun so long as you don't have great expectations.