Our Complete Europe Itinerary

So here it is. Our holy grail. Our complete itinerary from our UK & Europe adventure which lists our cities, time spent in each place, and most importantly (and let's be honest, what I think most people really want!) .. the links to all the accommodation for the whole trip. I'll also be listing all the websites that we used to get all the information we needed to help you in your own scheming and planning. Hooray!

Our trip included visiting 48 cities in 20 countries. Wowee I had never counted that before until just then...god I miss being in each and every one of those 20 countries. 

An important disclosure before I share allll of our info however. I am, in no way shape or form sharing this for you to take the trip and do it exactly the same. There is no way you could ever replicate a trip from doing so. Our itinerary worked perfectly for us as it was exactly what we wanted but every single person is different and you really need to find your own travel groove. Take a little or take a lot but just use this as a good inspiration and guiding light to get started. 

Are you ready?

Our Europe Itinerary for 4 & a half months

London for 4 nights & we stayed here 

Cardiff for 1 night & we stayed here

Dublin for 4 nights & we stayed here

Belfast for 2 nights & we stayed here

Inverness for 2 nights & we stayed here

Portree for 2 nights & we stayed here*

Elgin for 2 nights & we stayed here

Edinburgh for 4 nights & we stayed here

Amsterdam for 3 nights & we stayed here

Brussels for 2 nights & we stayed here

Athens for 2 nights & we stayed here

Santorini for 7 nights & we stayed here & here

Mykonos for 3 nights & we stayed here

Split for 3 nights & we stayed here

We then Sailed Croatia for 7 nights (highlight of our trip) & used this company

Budapest for 3 nights & we stayed here

Kirchburg for 5 nights & we stayed here

Vienna for 3 nights & we stayed here

Prague for 4 nights & we stayed here

Rome for 4 nights & we stayed here

Naples for 2 nights & we stayed here

Positano for 2 nights & we stayed here

Amalfi for 2 nights & we stayed here

Florence for 3 nights & we stayed here

Venice for 3 nights & we stayed here

Milan for 2 nights & we stayed here

Vernazza (Cinque Terre) for 2 nights & we stayed here

Monte Carlo for 2 nights & we stayed here

Nice for 2 nights & we stayed here

Cannes for 2 nights & we stayed here

St Tropez for 2 nights & we stayed here

Toulon for 2 nights & we stayed here

Nimes for 2 nights & we stayed here

Barcelona for 4 nights & we stayed here

Valencia for 4 nights & we stayed here

Mallorca for 2 nights & we stayed here

Madrid for 2 nights & we stayed here

San Sebastian for 3 nights & we stayed here

Paris for 4 nights & we stayed here

Luxembourg for 2 nights & we stayed here

Berlin for 3 nights & we stayed here

Frankfurt for 2 nights & we stayed here

Heidelberg for 2 nights & we stayed here

Munich for 2 nights & we stayed here

Interlaken for 5 nights & we stayed here

Dubai for 6 nights & we stayed here

Websites that we used to book all of the above - & spent a million hours researching on...

Skyscanner - to book all of our flights internally & across countries

Airbnb - an ah-ma-zing website that we adored. This is how we stayed in luxurious apartments for so cheap.

Hostelbookers - you can't backpack through Europe without staying in hostels & this was the best website.

Hostelworld - also good for booking hostels but less variety than hostelbookers & a little more expensive.

Booking - great to find hotels & hostels when the other websites can't find you many options.

TripAdvisor - we didn't use this to book, but great to read honest reviews of hotels from previous guests.

Also, the only iPhone Apps that we couldn't live without over there was the following.

AroundMe - SO helpful in any and every city we went too when we needed to find an ATM, restaurant, toilet, the list goes on! It would pick up on where you were and then point you to the closest everything. It saved our butts many times.

TripAdvisor CityGuides - TridAdvisor is obviously every travelers best friend so this app shouldn't surprise you! Before reaching each new city we would download it to the app so once there could look up all the top attractions, tours, restaurants and activities. It would map you there from wherever your starting point was as well so if the mood called to use it we could just get the app up and map ourselves to the tourist thing we wanted to do at that moment. Fan-tastic!

[Left; Budapest      Right; Cinque Terre ] _________________________________________________________________________________

So there you go. 4 & a half months of trip of a lifetime travel condensed here, for you, with love, in just 3 paragraphs. This is the thing though, I am trying to encourage as much as humanly possible for you to just book that trip. Just go. Stop telling yourself that you never have the right timing, or money or circumstance because let me assure you, if you keep telling yourself that, then you never will. I had told myself, that no matter what, when I finished uni, I'd go to Europe. I spoke it aloud, I wrote it down, I shared the dream, and last year I did just that. I would love to see 2013, or the years to come manifest in to the year you took a trip to the place you've always dreamed of but never deemed possible. I truly believe, with the right belief, planning, research, saving & tools you will be able to do it. And this is exactly what I hope my 2 Europe posts will do for you.

Your turn.

If you have any cities that aren't on there that you think people would love or should know about then I'd love to hear about them in the comments below. Also share any other websites or Apps that you have found amazing when traveling, let's help people grow their travel dreams together.

Love, light & big wishes,

Anna xx

[ Madrid ]

[ Croatia ]

[ Nimes ]

[ Kirchburg ]

[ Vernazza ] 

[ Munich - Oktoberfest ]