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General discussion => Travel plans, routes and timetables => Topic started by: costasi on February 24, 2010, 09:42:25 pm

Title: Train from Athens (Greece) to Brno (Czech)
Post by: costasi on February 24, 2010, 09:42:25 pm

Hello,

I want to travel by train from Athens to Brno (Czech). Does someone know what are the train routes for that trip?
Thanx

Title: Re: Train from Athens (Greece) to Brno (Czech)
Post by: tUt on February 25, 2010, 12:49:40 am

Probably the best way to go here is Athens-Thessaloniki-Belgrade-Budapest-Brno.
There are two daily trains from Thessaloniki to Belgrade - at 5:57 (arrives to Belgrade at 18:06) and 17:05 (at Belgrade - 5:59), so your task is to get from Athens to Thessaloniki by that time. You can do it either by overnight train #504 22:55-5:36 or by daytime #500 (9:21-15:02) or IC 52 (10:51-15:48).
In Belgrade at 7:20 in the morning departs IC 345 train Belgrade to Prague via Budapest (in Brno at 19:33) or overnight train Belgrade-Budapest at 21:25-5:04 in Budapest (+ at 5:28 departs train Budapest-Hamburg which will be in Brno at 9:33)
In terms of financial side of the journey you best option is to "break" you tickets in such way: Athens-Thessaloniki (domestic); Thess.-Belgrade bought in Greece; Belgrade-Budapest bought in Serbia; Budapest-Kuty(last Slovakian station before Czech Rep.) bought in Budapest. Ticket from Slovak border station Kuty to Brno better to purchase on board.
Feel free to ask further questions