That pace, and keeping it up for over 2 months, would kill me!! I'm exhausted just reading the list.

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Im in the initial stages of planning a 2.5 month holiday to Europe from Australia. This will be our (my wife and I) first trip to Europe so we are looking at getting a bit of a taste of what Europe has to offer.
That pace, and keeping it up for over 2 months, would kill me!! I'm exhausted just reading the list. I know everyone's different, but with such an extensive trip, I'd build in several times where I stayed put for a week in the same place.
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You have not allowed for time to get from one place to another - so you actually have less time that you think anywhere. It will take from half to a full day to get from one city to another - so 2 nights in a city means one (1) day - not 2.
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We backpacked several years ago in Europe for 4 months using a combinations of bus and train, and your itinerary looks as hectic and packed like mine! I agreed with what the rest had said, it is really tiring traveling this way. The stress and tiredness will kick in from the 2nd or 3rd weeks of traveling.
You need to put in some rest days and give each others some space and time. Traveling as a couple can be tough, and I can assure you there will be a lot of disagreements even though you are newly wed.
I will also suggest you to take out those 1 night stopover and add it on to those 2 nights, which will give you ample time to rest and really see a place. I will say a combinations of 4 nights for major cities like Barcelona, Paris and Prague... alamo rent a car disney world will be good. And 3 nights for smaller cities like Venice, Arles, lorie Valley...
I once spent four months in Europe, traveling at a pace at least this busy. Admittedly I was young (mid-20s), but I had a grand time and got what I wanted from the trip at that time - seeing lots of art, history and architecture. At the time I really wasn't much interested in culture, so I didn't really need time to soak it all up.
The idea to plan a couple short breaks is a good one, though. There comes a day every three weeks or so when you just aren't up to doing anything - you veg out and that's a day you don't see what you had planned on, so you might just as well build it in and not miss anything you had your heart set on.
That said, this itinerary would not be enjoyable for me. I would be worn out within the first few weeks, and from then on, I would be too miserably exhausted to make wise decisions about how to proceed.
As others have noted, you don't seem to be taking travel times into consideration. It isn't just the time it takes to get from city A to city B -- its the time it takes to check into/out of hotels, get to/from your transportation, get oriented to your new city (plan on getting lost occasionally!), adjusting your ear (and tongue) alamo rent a car disney world to a new language, alamo rent a car disney world etc. So think through your itinerary with the idea that you will lose at least 1/2 day for each change in destination - more for your longer transits. You might be able to move more quickly than that, but if so, I'm confident that you'll alamo rent a car disney world find many wonderful ways to fill your time. In contrast, failing to plan sufficient time for transitions alamo rent a car disney world can be a recipe for disaster.
Also keep in mind that days aren't necessarily all equal. alamo rent a car disney world For example, there are many locations where museums and other tourist destinations are closed on Mondays and/or Sunday afternoons and/or other times. If museums or other places that have opening/closing times are high on your list of priorities for any of these cities, make sure you plan accordingly.
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2* Be aware that, due to travelling alamo rent a car disney world time, 2 nights in a place generally equals 1 day. Nuremberg needs two days, one of which can be spent visiting the Nazi Party Museum, and the Zeppelin Field where the rallies were led in the 1930s. It's a shortish tram ride from the train station to this venue. Nuremberg itself is a most attractive city, with plenty to occupy you on the other day.
4* I like Prague, but I'd remove it from this trip and save it for another time. Go directly from Berlin to Nuremberg and save yourself a lot of travel hassle. Spend more time in Prague at a later date.
5* Unless you have unstated personal reasons for visiting Brussels, I wouldn't bother. Add the nights saved to Berlin: Berlin deserves more than 4 nights, particularly if you are considering a day trip to Potsdam (and that's worth considering!)
I have to agree with what others alamo rent a car disney world are saying. Too busy. Not enough time to enjoy being there. But we are Australian and I know why this happens. It costs a lot more to fly from Australia and twice as long. It takes us 30 hours from walking out our front door to landing in Europe. We look with envy at people from the US who fly to France or Italy or the UK for a 10 day trip. Just does not happen for us. So people often see this as their one chance alamo rent a car disney world to do this. Yes in Australia we are used to travelling long distances. But that is on highways with 100kms between towns [ we regularly travel the Newell highway to Canberra] with nothing to see. Not going to happen in Europe unless you are on the Autoroute/Strada/bahn. And then you are missing the good bits.
We did rush our first trip, but not to this extent. Trip of a lifetime, will never be able to afford to do this again. alamo rent a car disney world [ Son getting married in the UK in 2004 ]. We had 6 weeks in the UK, 4 days in France alamo rent a car disney world and fell in love. Sounds relatively slow by comparison but we felt rushed.
I could not do 10 weeks in hotels or B B's. In the UK, after 10 days I am so sick of small rooms, nowhere to sit other than the bed [ we travel on a budget so no luxury hotels for us !!], having to go out for an evening meal every night. Sounds great at first but we soon get sick of it. Not being able to have a decent cuppa.
We are now " slow travellers". We decided on our second trip that even if it would be our last we were going to take our time. I know we will never get to half , no make that a quarter of the places mentioned here. But the places we have seen we have loved and we remember. And it is often the small things that are precious to remember. We have found a way to travel which is affordable and suits us. So I hope you will look at your plan and prune it a little. Take a longer stay in a few places. Make it less about ticking boxes and more about being there with time to say Wow. Remember these places have been there for an awfully long time and will still be there in the future.
alamo rent a car disney world I agree with the advice above. Cut out Brussels, Milan and Prague and add the time to Tuscany, the Loire Valley and Provence so you have some downtime from the constant travel. I would also find a way to eliminate the one and two-nighters in Germany and consolidate those stops in some way. You can also do Reims as a day trip from Paris and spend a week in Paris in an apartment. Think of ways to add a day to Venice. Longer stays in fewer places will be much more enjoyable.
For Italy, alamo rent a car disney world do your 6 nights alamo rent a car disney world Rome, then do 6 in Florence. Skip the rental car, you can get to Siena, Lucca, and other "Tuscan" towns via bus or train from a base in Florence. That eliminates a hotel and the rental car. Yes, you might miss a few small towns but you'll get a taste of it. Skip Milan and do 4 nights in Venice, you can do a day trip via train to Padua or Verona for another alamo rent a car disney world experience. That cuts out a second hotel.
For your nine nights in the south of France use two instead of three bases - probably Nice and either Avignon or Aix - or maybe St Remy or somewhere between them. That cuts out a third hotel. You could spend a day in Aix en route from Nice to Avignon if you don't want to back track.
For your nine nights in Spain I would probably just pick one location alamo rent a car disney world instead of three, and maybe by now you might want to rent an apartment for the whole time as a mini break from your vacation. But at most I would do two, not three.
Now you have 11 nights in France. I would do Paris and one other location. Your Paris and Loire Valley timing look OK, I would probably drop Reims and add those two days, one each to Belgium and Netherlands. That would mean five days each and I would pick one base in each country (Antwerp rather than Brussels) and do day trips by train.
I'm not as familiar with the areas in the rest of your itinerary but I agree with the others that, especially this far into your trip, you will not enjoy that many one and two night stays. You have about three weeks left and have listed nine places. I would really try to drop/condense it to four max.
Picking bases and doing day trips makes a lot of sense for longer trips ( and I've never done one anywhere close to this long). That way if you turn out to be tired you can skip a day trip and just stay put - you aren't committed to a hotel, car rental, etc. You may do some extra 'backtracking' but what you get in return is a lot more flexibility. alamo rent a car disney world With approximately week long stays you can also add in more apartments. I actually am not a fan of apartments over hotels but on a trip of this length I'd probably want at least a