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Subject: Re: Rail fares for former Yugoslav countries... Posted on: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 17:03:55 MET


"Helmut Uttenthaler" ha scritto nel messaggio
news:45686286$0$12126$3b214f66@aconews.univie.ac.at...
> Bill wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone think that the total journeys below would cost more than
>> £277 (?410) - the cost of an interrail ticket which covers Greece,
>> FYR Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bos&Hertz, Croatia, Slovenia and
>> Italy.
>>
>> i) Thessalonika - Skopje
>> ii) Skopje - Prestina (bus)
>> iii) Prestina - Prizren (bus)
>> iv) Prizren - Podgorica (bus+Kosovan train?)
>> v) Podgorica - Bar
>> vi) Bar - Belgrade (day train)
>> vii) Belgrade - Zagreb
>> viii) Zagreb - Banja Luka
>> ix) Banja Luka - Sarajevo
>> x) Sarajevo - Mostar
>> xi) Mostar - Split (bus)
>
> Can also be done by train to Ploce and then bus.
>
> You might try to get an international ticket Bar - Ljubljana and make
> stopovers at Belgrade and Zagreb. However, a separate tickets Bar -
> Belgrad
> and Belgrad - Ljubljana might be cheaper, if still some kind of "domestic"
> fare applies between Bar and Belgrade. You wont loose much money with
> breaking tickets in Servia, as the international fare of Servian railways
> is
> linear (and not degressive, as with many other railways).
>
> For the sidestep you buy one international ticket Zagreb - Mostar (or
> Ploce)
> and a national ticket Split - Zagreb.
>
>
>> xii) Split - Zagreb
>> xiii) Zagreb - Ljubljana
>> xiv) Ljubljana - Venice
>>
>> Seems quite a lot now i've typed it out! Might finish my travels in
>> Ljubljana instead of Venice to save an extra leg, especially if I can
>> find a cheap flight out of Ljubljana back to the UK.
>
> Isn't Ryanair or something like that flying to Ljubljana?
>
> Train Ljubljana - Venezia costs 25 EUR, AFAIK.
>
>
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any advice...
>
>
> Forget about buses, if there is a rail-alternative...
>
> I would guess, that you will pay less then half of the mentioned 410 EUR
> if
> you buy separate tickets locally, maybe even less than a third....
>
>
>
> Helmut
>
>
>

do not forget that BAR is not Serbia now..
Cerna Gora and Serbia are two different countries now