generalvegitable
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Hi All, in January me and a few friends will be doing a trip to Germany to explore some of the rail network and some of the big cities.
we will be travelling to Germany either by eurostar and ICE (or flying if there are no cheap tickets left when I book), and travelling within Germany on a 4 day pass (6 if we fly), so ticketing isn't a problem, but there is one major stumbling block, I don't know where we should visit, or where the most scenic routes are, or much about timetabling for that matter.
at the moment the places we want to visit are Düsseldorf (specifically the Japantown there, some of my friends are massive anime geeks and want to visit there), Munich (I want to visit at least one of the beer halls) and the DB museum at Nuremberg, but that basically leaves the rest of the time with not much to do.
What I am asking is, would anyone be able to suggest anywhere to visit or good lines to travel on, ideally we would want a good mix of trains, and good scenery and interesting things to do (that don't cost too much, none of us are particularly wealthy). I know that in the time we will barely scratch the surface (and its probably not the best time of year to do it) but I would appreciate any advice that I can get, so that I can plan an interesting and varied itinerary (although part of the reason for travelling is to bash ICEs so the more time spent on them the better ).
Thanks in advance.
we will be travelling to Germany either by eurostar and ICE (or flying if there are no cheap tickets left when I book), and travelling within Germany on a 4 day pass (6 if we fly), so ticketing isn't a problem, but there is one major stumbling block, I don't know where we should visit, or where the most scenic routes are, or much about timetabling for that matter.
at the moment the places we want to visit are Düsseldorf (specifically the Japantown there, some of my friends are massive anime geeks and want to visit there), Munich (I want to visit at least one of the beer halls) and the DB museum at Nuremberg, but that basically leaves the rest of the time with not much to do.
What I am asking is, would anyone be able to suggest anywhere to visit or good lines to travel on, ideally we would want a good mix of trains, and good scenery and interesting things to do (that don't cost too much, none of us are particularly wealthy). I know that in the time we will barely scratch the surface (and its probably not the best time of year to do it) but I would appreciate any advice that I can get, so that I can plan an interesting and varied itinerary (although part of the reason for travelling is to bash ICEs so the more time spent on them the better ).
Thanks in advance.