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From: mpalmer@dvinci.DEC (M. Lawrence Palmer)
Newsgroups: net.travel
Subject: rail and ferry travel in europe
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 11:18:46 EDT
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Hi all you experienced travelers-of-Europe!  I have a wedding to attend
in Ireland in the last weekend of June.  Since I also have friends in
Nice, Reading (near London), and Munich,  I thought it might be an
opportune time to pay them all visits.  I am trying to solve the
"travelling salesman" problem for minimum travel cost to visit all
these places but am not able to get lots of info from American
travel agents.  I think I'd want to do something like take a cheap
fare to London or Munich,  use railroad and ferry to
get between places,  and fly back from another point.  It seems to
be rather expensive to fly directly in or out of Ireland to the U.S.

I'd like information on railway costs, specifically for sleeper cabins.
Does Eurail or whatever typically run overnight trains between these
locales?  How much are the Ireland/England/France ferries?  What other
difficulties should I watch for, etc.?

thanks

Mark L. Palmer