Central Europe Itinerary Idea (August 2021)

Three nights means only 2 days somewhere, so you are short changing every destination and you are going to lose about half a day every time you transfer. Prague to Paris is likely to be around a 6-7 hour journey door to door. You may lose the first day or 2 of Berlin to jet lag.

No one knows what the Covid situation is going to be in August, but you need to be prepared to be flexible, as border situations may change and restrictions may be eased or imposed at short notice. Just today, France has imposed quarantine restrictions on Brits going there, despite 36% of British adults having had both jabs and 75% having had their first. In France, the corresponding proportions are 16 and 35%.

Covering five countries is going to increase your risk of some issue occurring.

For a whirlwind tour, looks pretty good to me! The Paris/Bayeux/Paris bit seems a bit awkward with such brief glimpses of Paris on either side. Might be worth looking into whether you could plan one bigger travel day to go from Budapest to Bayeux via Paris so it could be 2 nights in Bayeux followed by 2 nights in Paris.

Claire,

I have been recently rethinking that same thing. Maybe I should just take the train right to Bayeaux when I get to Paris. I have been to Paris before so I wouldn't really be needing to do much in terms of sightseeing so that was why my original plan was the way it was.