QuoteNow that would be some trip!
Was looking into the possibility of seeing a bit or Europe and Asia by train when these two matches were on if time allows during the league season. I have put together how it would be possible. There are regular services between all the stops
So here it is
Leave London on the 1st September
Day 1: Travel from London to Brussels by Eurostar, leaving London St Pancras at 13:00 (12:57 Fridays & Sundays), arriving Brussels 16:03.
Day 1: Travel from Brussels to Cologne by high-speed Thalys train, leaving Brussels at 17:25, arriving in Cologne Hauptbahnhof at 19:45.
Day 1: Travel from Cologne to Vienna on the excellent City Night Line hotel train 'Donau Kurier', leaving Cologne Hauptbahnhof at 20:06 and arriving in Vienna (Westbahnhof) at 08:35.
Day 2: Travel from Vienna to Budapest on the air-conditioned InterCity train 'Avala', leaving Vienna Westbahnhof at 09:52 and arriving in Budapest Keleti station at 12:53.
Day 2: Travel from Budapest to Bucharest overnight on the EuroNight sleeper train 'Ister', leaving Budapest Keleti station at 17:45 and arriving at Bucharest (Nord station) at 08:43 next morning.
Day 3: Travel from Bucharest to Istanbul on the 'Bosphor', leaving Bucharest (Nord) daily at 12:53 and arriving at Istanbul (Sirkeci station) at 08:00 next day. There is no buffet car on this train
Day 4: Take a train from Istanbul to Kars, then a bus or dolmus (local minibus taxi) to the Georgian border at Sarap, followed by another dolmus the 16km to Batumi, just the other side of the frontier. There is a comfortable daily overnight train from Batumi to Tblisi, with Russian-style 2-berth and 4-berth sleepers.
Day 5: Arrive in Tblisi 6th September in the early hours of the morning and stay overnight after match
Day 7: Get the overnight train back to Batumi and then get bus/taxi to Sarpa and then another bus/taxi to Kars and then by train back to Istanbul
Day 8: Travel by train from Istanbul to NIS. There are regular trains running daily from here. Leave Istanbul at 10PM and arrive in Nis (Serbia) at 3.25PM
Day 9: Nis to Podgorica by train and bus Total travel 12 hours incl stopovers
Day 10: arrive in Podgorica on the day of the match
Now that would be some trip!
Those were the days.
Happy memories.
In 1990, I traveled from Hong Kong [via Beijing, Ulan Bator, Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin] by trains to Milan for the opening ceremony of Italia 90.
I was young enough too, to consider sleeping outside the stadium in Rome for 3 days, normal to get a ticket for the quarter final. [I got one].
The pure romanticism of a road trip. Enjoy
3284 - Football Utopia.
thats too much travel...cost more than renting out a charter as well...i have devised an itinery that will cost 420 for flights for the two matches...
'How can I hate women, my Mums one!!!' Chris Finch
Any chance of sharing itOriginally Posted by citizenerased
AidoM
Starting on the long pilgrimage to South Africa
I like your way of thinking Battery.Its rare that your're going to be in that part of the world so you may as well see a bit of it. I think it is unfeasible though, from a money perspective and as regards time off work(I couldnt take any more than the necessary week).
Would it be better to concentrate on a route from Georgia to Montenegro between the games? I would be more interested in this cos I dont fancy heading all the way back to London and back out again, and the Sunday and Monday between double headers is usually more dull and I wouldnt mind passing it on a bus or train seeing a place I will never otherwise see. Theres a 30hour bus from Tblisi to Istanbul and once your out of the middle east you can train to Montenegro from there.
<insert witty remark>
lads fly the following
DUB - RIGA (RYANAIR) SEPT 4TH 60EURO inc tax and bag
riga - tbilisi (airbaltic) 5th -7th sept 130rtn inc tax
riga - pogdroica(cant spell it) (air baltic) 8th sept 110 inc tax
Dubrovnik - dublin (aerlingus) 12th sept 115 inc tax
total 415 in tax
May have risen since yesterday
'How can I hate women, my Mums one!!!' Chris Finch
Good Call Citizen
Is the Riga to Pogdroica not on the 7th of September early morning.
In Trap we trust
Looks that way to me
AidoM
Starting on the long pilgrimage to South Africa
There is if you look in destination collumn. Via Vienna. However I don't think you can make the connection (only sunday and friday flights).
This is the cooooooooooooolest footy forum I've ever seen!
Young pups.
Wanting easy cheap flights to everywhere.
God be with the days of hard-arsing it around on overnight trains in faraway places.
The Vilnius Riga is a particular memory.
And there were no mobile phones or internet then either.
3284 - Football Utopia.
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