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September 11, 2012 at 6:59 pm

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This coming Summer (a way off, I know) I’ll be getting ready to go to university – and I’ll have a good couple of months off July/August. I’d like to spend some of it travelling around Europe. I’d likely be on my own, at least some of the time, given there aren’t many people who a) I could spend even a whole week with without them pissing me off b) could spend even a week with me without me pissing them off, and c) want to do the same things as me. Which is fine by me, but there is one problem: I’m not really sure what I’d spend my time doing!

I vaguely thought I’d pick a couple of festivals then spend a bit of time sight-seeing while travelling between them, sofa-surfing where I can (that is, find someone willing to put me up for a night or two). So really, what I’m asking is for festival/rave recommendations, ideas for places to visit, and general advice about it. I’m into heavy metal as well as dance music, but I’m pretty open-minded when it comes to what to do. Money is – of course – a large consideration as well, but I reckon I should be able to scrape together enough.

Oh, and – off topic – but I’m in Bristol next Friday/Saturday (Sep 21st) for the university open day, so if anyone knows of anything going down then, I’d be forever grateful. Not a lot seems to happen in Yorkshire…
September 12, 2012 at 9:49 am

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If you haven’t looked at it an interrail ticket is a good idea there lots of info on InterRail. EuRail. train tickets – Travel Europe by Train – Raildude – it allows you to travel on any train in Europe for a set period of time. Some of the night trains and longer high speed ones you have to pay a supplement but it’s cheap.
If you have everything really organised and planned before it may be a bit cheaper booking everything separately, but this way you have the freedom of finding something spur of the moment and just jumping on a train there, and you know the travel side is already paid for.
I did this last year for 6 weeks around eastern and central Europe, where your money can go quite a long way. Straight away you’ll meet other people doing the same thing so easy to find suggestions for things to do and people to chat to. I decided against doing festivals as it ended up looking too expensive and there’s plenty going on in most cities. Krakow, Prague and Budapest are really cool capital cities with alternative scenes and good base to explore the rest of each country
September 12, 2012 at 3:16 pm

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Hi, thanks for the response 🙂

I’d heard about the inter-rail ticket, it looks great! I was thinking some of the scandanavian countries looked good to see, but I’ll check out the cities you mentioned as well – Prague, especially, sounds awesome. I hadn’t thought about Eastern Europe that much, but if it’s cheaper there then I’ll definitely consider it, haha. What kind of thing did you find going on in the cities? I can never find as much on as I expect there to be, but I think I’m just not looking hard enough haha

Thanks again 🙂
September 17, 2012 at 6:58 pm

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For Budapest, try to go there during the Sziget Festival. It’s seven days of festival madness with great weather atmosphere and line up. It’s the most international festival of Europe and it was crowned ‘Best Major Festival’ at the 2011 European Festival Awards. You’ll definitely enjoy yourself there.
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