Two weeks before the first trip, we were searching the best way to travel. We really could not find anything that matched our budget( low budget). Our initial plan was to visit at least Italy, France and Spain. Italy, because we had some friends living in Torino and my mother was working in Sacile( 50 minutes to Venice by train.). Spain, because my cousin is living in Madrid and we had heard a lot of amazing things about Madrid’s night life. And France because of Paris and Disneyland.
So … how to visit all these places with a low budget? This was the question!

It was just then when we came across this extraordinary offer(for the fist time) : Interrail ticket

Interrail is a train ticket that gives you the possibility to travel throughout Europe by train, for up to one month.

It was exactly what we needed for our trip to happen. We planned our trip for a period of 2-3 weeks, so we needed the one month ticket. That year, 2006 , the ticket was a little cheaper : 270Euros.

We bought the ticket the same day we parted. So, our adventure started on the 19th October 2006 in Bucharest. The problem is that the Interrail ticket does not cover the fare in your country of residence, even if your InterRail ticket includes the zone of your country of residence. The train ticket from Bucharest to Timisoara, a city near the Hungarian border, was pretty expensive( about 30Euros ) … so we decide to “travel with the godfather” as they say in Romania. This means you don’t buy a train ticket, you just pay some money to the ticket inspector(we paid 10Euros) – it’s illegal. From time to time, a super inspector is checking the ticket inspectors and then you have a problem. But we took that chance.

And the next day, at 12pm, we entered Hungary for the first time.

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