If you are looking for budget travel, which it sounds like you might be, go to a travel agent and just ask questions. They are usually free to just talk to and will help you with booking stuff.

I've now booked my own bit of travel. i'm heading to New York at the end of September until early November. I will be studying under a Professor at New York University, who is one of the leading experts in my field. Then I'm going to fly to London and my girlfriend and I are spending just over 3 weeks in Europe. We are going to Paris, Nice, Venice, Florence, Naples and Rome.

Yeah budget travel ideally, not planning to spend time in a hotel

But yea ok, will head to a travel agent to see what the best options are.

I'd say the cheapest and easiest way around Europe is with Interrail: https://www.interrail.eu/

That is awesome, thanks for the link.

Be sure to visit Czech Republic, best county for chill-out travelling.

Way to go to ruin it for us, now we know it's you!

Except for the Thousand or so people on this Forum and one or 2 friends. Anyway. Got any ideas?

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Joke,i don't have any idea,but good luck!

I like it Kidding haha.

Thanks. All I need is a name and a topic and then I can start writing

Surely you should have a topic before a name? That will give you more ideas about names.

Interrail is pretty awesome, as Atlantius posted. I travelled with Interrail for three weeks through France and Spain about two years ago. The great thing is that you're very flexible. I planned a bit beforehand, of course, but I ended up staying at certain places longer than I originally wanted because I liked it a lot, and also, some places were less interesting than I thought, so I left earlier.

I'd also advise you to get a youth hostel passport (you can get one here, I think). I don't know what it's like in Australia but in my experience, youth hostels in Europe are decent places to stay at pretty low expenses. And the network is pretty huge.

As for the places you want to go, it depends a bit what you want. Cities like Prague, Amsterdam, Paris or Berlin are great but could be quite cold at the end of the year. Weather-wise, the Côte d'Azur, Spain (I can warmly recommend Barcelona) and Italy are probably better then.

It's going to be a blog of just all different topics. What every I feel like writing about that day. So it's like a diary but not. I just need a name. Like an eye catching name

Looking forward to tonights Bruce Springsteen concert.

Luckily the weather is fine today after a week of stormy days. So the open air concert should become brilliant.

The more you know!

*jumping high-five*

Whoa nice I'd like that, too. Then again, I'll be seeing Phoenix in two weeks, which is pretty awesome as well.

Went to see Bastille, Jake Bugg and Paloma Faith last night. Bastille were ok, but the other two were amazing, even though I'm not a Paloma Faith fan, I enjoyed it.

If you come to Oudenaarde to see the Flemish Ardennes, I'll be happy to give you a cycling tour

I had my girlfriend convinced to go there on our trip so that I could see the Ronde museum. It is just an immensely hard place to get to because there doesn't seem to be a Eurostar line close by so I had to give it a miss. One day I'll go!

Well that's because you shouldn't expect the Eurostar to stop at Oudenaarde

If you want to get to Oudendaarde from outside of Belgium with an international train then you could transfer at Brussels to a local intercity train to Gent, then take the 1 and a half hour bus to Oudenaarde, and then just spend the night there

Technically, according to Google Maps you can also take the bus from Brussels to Aalst, then the bus to Zottegem, then the bus to Oudenaarde, but I wouldn't recommend that.