Lonely Planet's best itinerary for travelling Mediterranean Europe
DON'T want to miss a thing on your Euro trip? Lonely Planet makes the planning process a little easier with this itinerary guide for Mediterranean Europe.
DON'T want to miss a thing, don't have much time and don't know where to start organising you Euro trip?
Lonely Planet makes the planning process a little easier with this itinerary guide for Mediterranean Europe.
Trip: Mediterranean Europe
Blurb: Think Europe doesn't do beaches? Thing again - it does, but with lashings of culture on the side, as you'll find during this romp along its southern shores, starting in Madrid and ending up in Turkey.
Countries: Spain, France, Italy, Croatia, Greece, Turkey
Time: Four Weeks
- Fly into Madrid and then head directly for the Mediterranean by taking a train to Barcelona and soak up the seaside ambience of Gaudi's city.
- Head along the Côte d'Azur via Nice and spend time exploring Monaco and the beautiful villages of Provence.
- From Nice, take the train to historic Rome and continue south to energetic Naples, peer into ill-fated Pompeii and explore the stunning Amalfi Coast.
- Cross Italy to Bari, from where you head across the Adriatic by ferry to the Croatian peals of Dubrovnik.
- Bus it south through Montenegro and Albania - two of Europe's least-known but most breath-taking gems - and then head to the beautiful Greek island of Corfu.
- From Patra, do a loop of the Peloponnese: bus to Byzantine pin-up city Mystras, the ancient heavyweight Mycenae and the bus it to venerable Athens.
- Go south to Piraeus for an island-hopping expedition to Mykonos, Paros and volcanic Santorini.
- Continue to island-hop until you've had your fill, then set sail for Turkey from Samos or Levos.
- Visit ancient Ephesus then bus north along the Aegean coast to the ruins of Troy and Çanakkale and to throbbing, beautiful and chaotic İstanbul.
This itinerary is an extract from Lonely Planet’s Europe on a Shoestring (7th Edition) by Tom Masters, et al © Lonely Planet 2011. RRP: $45.99. lonelyplanet.com
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