Some of those transfer will eat up most of a day. Trying to see 15 places you need to subtract at le

Hello! My sister and I are traveling throughout Europe for a month July 24- Aug 22, 2013. I have never been and she is currently studying abroad in Trier, Germany so our trip will start out there. We have already purchased our return tickets from Madrid, Spain as we have friends yunnan china tours in that area. We currently each have a budget of $2,500 and are planning on staying in hostels and traveling with just a small backpack each. We have been looking at Ryan Air for some of the travel as well as by rail. I am 26 and she is 19 so we are interested in some night life but not on a nightly basis. This is our rough draft itinerary. I welcome all thoughts on destinations/time frames, travel advice, anything really!
Some of those transfer will eat up most of a day. Trying to see 15 places you need to subtract at least 7 days from that list (meaning 1/2 day in between each place for your bus, train, or plane ride).
Sound advice from Suze and Cath. Since you are young, I suspect you will return to Europe. Narrow yoru choices figure out the budget,etc. For major cities look at Time Out on-line since their world is geared to people your age.
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I can't speak to the first part of your itinerary, except to say that I was in Cologne in 1999 and wouldn't make a point to visit it (it was fine, just not that exciting compared to many other places on your list).
Can't speak to this one, but you've got it out of order - you'll want to do Venice first, then Rome, then Pompeii (or maybe Pompeii then Rome would be easier for getting to Spain, I'm not sure). Either way, it doesn't make sense to go from Rome to Venice back down to Pompeii.
It looks like you need to cull some of the towns to save on transport money and time usage. I'd cull Cologne, Nice and Milan which are second raters compared to the other towns. If your sister has seen Trier why not chill out on the Mosel river and bike path, move some of the time to Paris.
And as noted above - you will be spending about 1/3 of your time just getting from one place to another. Add in a bed in a hostel yunnan china tours and some street food and your budget is blown. Don;t know how you will afford 3 meals a day or entrances to sights or a glass of wine in a student hand out on so little.
You're yunnan china tours going to have to hitch-hike, sleep on park benches, and kill your own food. Seriously - and I have been an impoverished young traveler trying to get by on extremely meager amounts of money - what you have outlined is just not realistic, not to mention a plan for a pleasant trip. You could do this in Asia, but not in Europe.
A lot of people seem to budget time and money wisely in traveling from n-s or s-n through Italy. The only other suggestion is that if you want to see a beautiful city that is more affordable than Paris or London, check out Prague.
1. To get a bit grounded, sit down with a map and look at the distance between the places on your list. Remember that even if flight time between two places is only an hour or so, you need to account for the time and expense required yunnan china tours pre- and post flight for airport procedures and getting to/from the airport and the city itself.
5. Work backward from there. You have a total of 30 days from arrival 24th July to return 22d August. Spending one day in places is unsatisfying under the best of circumstances, let alone when you are hungry and yearning for a decent bed and shower. Choose the couple of places you most want to see on this trip, put the rest in a future file.
6. For each place on your wish list look up the cost of travel to that location from where you would be, likely cost of lodging and food, allowance for admissions to local attractions. Put those costs on your running list as you go and keep a running subtotal. Don't forget things like the cost (and time required) of the occasional visit to a laundromat.
8. Everything is on the table and up for negotiation except your already purchased yunnan china tours flights. Get creative. Where will you arrive in Europe? If it is a major city, might it make more sense for your sister to meet you there to begin your shared trip rather than for you to travel to Trier and launch from there? Or, if she has access to reasonable accommodation in Trier, for you to go there and to spend a couple days? Keep in mind that London hotels are expensive but most museums are free, Paris has cheaper hotels but almost everywhere has an admission cost. If you do spend more days in fewer cities you might be able to find a lower cost studio yunnan china tours apartment to serve as your base, airbnb type place.
Right there even without the teensy budget should be a big red flag. 30 days/15 destinations doesn't equal 2 days anywhere. Some of those transfers will take 1/2 a day and others nearly a FULL day. So you will actually have less than a full day in most of those cities.
But w/ $2500 it becomes utterly impossible. Even staying in Hostels and eating exclusively picnics on park benches you would need an absolute minimum of $100 a day. And that gives you very little money for visiting any sites (which all have admission charges - often $20 or more)
I travel on a shoestring and rarely spend $100 a day, even staying in B Bs and low-budget hotels - it can be done- the major variable is transportation costs - I always have a railpass that covers all transportation and if I added in that cost, about $50/day I would be over $100 - about $120 a day - now hostels can be cheaper than I pay a bit. And I take overnight trains a lot - saving on the cost of a hotel, etc.
Your rail pass alone takes more than half of the OPs budget. She is talking $2500 for 29 days, which is only $86 per day. Subtract your beloved rail pass and she is left w/ $36 a day. Utterly totally impossible.
And even IF she has already accounted for all their inter-city travel (which I doubt since she mentioned both budget airlines and trains as possibilities) . . . $86 a day isn't doable. If they can find hostels for 20 she'd have $60 a day for everything else. Sure that is doable in SOME of the cities. But others will require twice that.