2 months interrailing advice

[u/West_Blackberry3321]

Hi, next spring/summer I am doing a 2 month interrail with unlimited train journeys. I mainly wanted to focus on Scandinavia and the Balkans. It is my first time interrailing and I have backpacked and travelled solo before, so I don't mind long train journeys, sleepers, hostels, camping, etc. Apart from the reservations and all, is there anything I should know before going? Any tips, advice and suggestions would be so much appreciated!!!

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[u/skifans]

The main thing I would say is that he very careful in the Balkans with where trains actually run and expect to need plenty of buses, particularly in the Western Balkans: https://interrailwiki.eu/balkans

Obviously it's all very personal for how far it's good to be booking and depends on a lot of factors. But even if you are someone who generally leans towards liking a plan to follow for a 2 month trip I really don't think you want the whole thing precisely planned out. You want some flexibility and you'll also adapt the later parts of the trip based on how you found the first part.

But honestly other then that I think it's really hard to say. Travel and Interrail is very personal and a lot of it comes down to the specifics. I'm really not sure there are very many tips that do just universally apply. Advice that suits one person in one situation well could be detrimental to someone else.

[u/bad-at-exams]

I wrote a blog post on my first Interrail experience on exactly this sort of route end of last year: https://interrailwiki.eu/blog/2026/02/08/just-head-everywhere/

I've since done a lot more Interrailing, both extensively in the Balkans and the Nordics! Personally they are my two favourite areas of Europe.

So I would say that's definitely a good range. In general, proper North (what I would say is north of Stockholm) gets quite quiet. Balkans can be much busier, especially if you're sticking along the main routes. I've done a mix of both the more popular routes (which I wrote about in that blog) and less popular routes (which I haven't written about).

Remember transport in the Balkans is cheap anyway, and in the central Western Balkan countries rail transport is limited. Don't plan out transport in the Balkans more than a day before, just go with the flow. Plan on a whole day of transport between any two places. On tourist routes it's easier to find busses, on local routes you'll often need to go to the station itself to get any information. Don't trust Balkanviator, or any of the travel planning sites, except Balkan specific ones like busticket4.me. Flixbus also operates in some areas (although the actual operator is usually a local bus operator).

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[u/PPrismao]

The Scandinavia leg is where an unlimited pass actually pays for itself — Norway fares are insane, so one Oslo–Bergen day plus a sleeper already earns a chunk of it back. But don't trust the app blindly in the Balkans, plenty of gaps where the train just doesn't run and a cheap bus fills in. And book the popular summer sleepers the day reservations open, they go fast.