Backpack through Europe
A departure board becomes the spine of the trip: unfamiliar place names, a platform found in time and a bag light enough to carry upstairs. Days begin to link through station cafés, shared rooms and the small competence of knowing where you are going next. Backpacking through Europe is not a contest to collect capitals. Choose a coherent region or rail corridor, travel for at least two weeks if possible and leave enough nights in each place to have a morning that is not immediately about departure. Check passport, visa and Schengen-day rules for your nationality, buy insurance and reserve trains or beds where compulsory or scarce. Build a realistic daily budget, keep documents and money secure, share your route, avoid overnight arrivals you cannot safely navigate and carry less than you think you need. Count it complete after a multi-country European journey made chiefly by public transport while carrying your own travel kit. Add it if you want the route between places—not just the landmarks at either end—to become part of what you remember.