Hi all!
Thanks to some earlier suggestions I’ve been given I’ve refined my itinerary for France/Germany in late November / early December 2024 to see the Christmas markets.
Fly in to Paris: 3 days
Strasbourg: 4 days
- day trip to Colmar
- open to suggestions on other notable day trip to take
Stuttgart: 3 days
day trip to Heidelberg
day trip to Esslingen
^ I considered basing in Heidelberg but the transport to/from Stuttgart appears to be better. Stuttgart itself doesn’t interest me greatly though I have heard the Christmas market is fabulous so figured this would give me a full day in Stuttgart to just take things easy and linger around
Nuremberg: 4 days
- day trip to Regensburg
- day trip/overnighter to Rothenburg ob see Tauber
^ due to luggage and the fact that I will be solo and won’t have help I am thinking to do an overnight trip to Rothenburg (while keeping most of my belongings in the hotel in Nuremberg) so as to spend a full day and night there and return to Nuremberg the following morning
Fly out of Munich
Does this seem ok in terms of the logistics of getting to each place and the time allocation? (ie is it worth taking a day from Strasbourg to put somewhere else, for example).
Some notes to add:
- I’ve been to Paris and Munich before, I’ve allocated time in Paris because it’s one of my favourite cities
- I would love to see Salzburg as my time in Austria in 2018 was limited to Vienna but doubt it can be worked in without being too rushed (maybe as a day trip from Munich but it would be a very long day?)
- I am a fast paced and time efficient traveller (I’m that person on the 6am train doing my hair and makeup on the train, eating my breakfast etc) and will be going solo so I’m fine with the fact that it is rather jam packed, and I appreciate that this isn’t for everyone and that the two weeks could easily be spent in one city alone
