I am working temporarily in Frankfurt and have found the Interrail ticket an ideal way for travelling around Europe relatively inexpensively by rail on your own.

There are five days in 10, 10 days in 22, 22 continuous days and tickets for a continuous month, which enable you to travel on an unlimited basis throughout 30 countries. The prices are higher for those aged 26 or more but are still very reasonable (the cheapest ticket for older folk like myself is 189 pounds. Eurostar is not included but if you buy in advance it is only 59 pounds return to Brussels or Paris whilst there is a flexible 'special' rate ticket available for 50 pounds single, subject to there being seats available on trains.

There are still a few supplements - I had to pay 10 Euros for the journey from Milan to Paris - but from 1st January 2008 you no longer have to pay any supplement on German ICEs.

Last Autumn I spent two days travelling from London to Bratislava, two days from Bratislava to Lake Como and 1 day travelling back to London using a TGV from Milan to Paris and Eurostar thereafter.

I was also able to buy a return train ticket from Frankfurt to London for just over 100 pounds for my Christmas/New Year stay in the UK. On the return the journey was less than six hours with one change at Brussels. With the introduction of the fastlink from London to the channel coast there are many more reasonably priced tickets to European cities available. You can go to Rail Europe for more information.

For more details you can refer to this website: www.interrailnet.com/?gclid=CM-B2sappZACFSjaXgodnjpnqg

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