r/Europetravel • u/Jasonhikes • Mar 16 '26
Trip report 4 countries, 21 days. First time in traveling Europe!
Back in October I traveled to Europe for the first time. I spent 2 days in Germany, 6 days in Poland, 7 days in Lithuania, and 3 in Estonia. Also a night in Latvia and Finland. The pace of travel was perfect for me and I didn’t feel rushed at all. I’ve been blown away by this experience and have been dreaming of my next trip to Europe. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the trip. Sorry they are not in a particular order.
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u/DocAnabolic1 Mar 17 '26
I love this itinerary, Baltics and Poland look incredible for a first Europe trip!
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u/Radeon9980 Mar 16 '26
After travelling Europe extensively, spending 10 months there since 2011 over about 8 trips now, the #1 thing people constantly harp on which people are ALWAYS wrong about its pace of travel. People will constantly bitch about things moving too fast or too many destinations, if it works for you, it’s right. Good on ya
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u/ExtremeProfession Mar 16 '26
It seems like a reasonable itinerary and not rushed at all, spending a night in Latvia passing by and likely a ferry ride to Finland.
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u/Radeon9980 Mar 16 '26
Oh yea I didn’t mean to sound like the opposite. I agree this OP’s itinerary is completely reasonable but a lot of people would think this is rushed etc.
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u/rybnickifull Croatian Toilet Expert Mar 16 '26
My biggest pet peeve is when people delete posts after getting answers, personally. .
It's not so much the short duration, so much as the lack of respect certain posters show to the places they're visiting.
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u/Radeon9980 Mar 16 '26
Yes exactly. Places that the primary attraction is a small city center are easily seen and felt in a few days. If you have to transit OUT of the city center an hour or more, that isn’t about seeing the city, and “missing” those attractions that are an hour plus away doesn’t justify spending extra time in said destination most of the time imo. When I was researchig Ireland I mentioned in a travel group that I would be driving from Dublin to Dingle in one day (approx 5 hours) people legitimately told me, if I was going to make that drive in 1 day that “there is no point in coming to Ireland” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/west_of_here_2002 Mar 19 '26
I haven’t been to any of these places (except Germany) but want to go and this sounds like a great trip, and the photos are lovely.
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u/Songbird-Lee-528 Apr 12 '26
My first trip to Europe was a chorale Tour last summer to the Baltics. Spent 3 nights in each capital city, then tacked on a week visiting a cousin in the Netherlands and a quick 2 days in Paris. Looking forward to another trip this summer to Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic.
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u/holyshtbatman9803 Mar 19 '26
Hi!! So I’m in the early stages of planning a trip like this. Would you be up for sharing any more info? What did you do for lodging and transport? Did you travel solo? Were there language barriers that were hard to overcome?
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u/Jasonhikes Mar 20 '26
For lodging I just did airbnbs in the heart of the old towns and a hotel in places I stayed for a night. It’s really not that expensive especially if you get the airbnb months In advance(i planned accommodation 6 months before I went). I used Omio and FlixBus for all my transportations. I was solo for 80% of the travels I had friends in Szczecin, Poland and in Vilnius, Lithuania that showed me around for few days but for the most part I was solo. And most people speak some English tbh but I used the google translate app which allows you to take pictures and translate the writing which was nice for restaurants and the plaques that were all around Warsaw.
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u/Kiwibirdy1 European Mar 16 '26
Great choice of countries! The Baltics & Poland are still a bit underrated imo.