Travel lessons learned

Warning: Bit of a rant ahead. 

 How am I feeling about the trip? Good. I think we have made some mistakes in planning this month.

So originally we were going to go to France, to Paris, for the month of September. It is expensive in Paris. Too expensive. We’ll go to Paris in October we thought, less expensive. So let’s go to Berlin. Again still too expensive now.

Now what? How about a week in Vienna? Found a reasonable airbnb. Ok. Done. Let’s go to Munich for a week. Done. Then let’s go to Geneva for a week. Then to Lyon. That takes up the month we would have been in Paris and going there in October, it will be cheaper.

Can you see where we went wrong? What we’re we thinking spending a week here and there? Crazy idea. Not only too short of a time at these cool cities but running ourselves ragged with the transport.

We started this part flying from Dublin to Vienna. No problem. Figured out how to get to our air bnb easily. Transport to center easy. Too little time in a great city like Vienna. Then things get tricky. 

We took train to Augsburg, outside Munich. That involved 4 trains and a 20 minute walk to the hotel. Turns out Augsburg is 45 minutes away from Munich and it’s not a cheap ride there. Hotel is not really conveniently located even within Augsburg. We’re mostly walking. 

Next stop Lausanne, Switzerland, outside Geneva. One week. It will take us 7 hours to get there. Should actually be a nice place on Lake Geneva and there are mountains right near there.

After that Lyon, France. One week. Only two hours from Geneva. 

So the point of all this? We never should have stayed in these places a week. It’s too little time, too much travel time.  Another lesson learned.

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September 05, 2022 at 08:06PM