Overview
Here's the idea:
- Fly into AMS, Kathi stays, Chris goes on to ZUR
- Ride Zug to Amsterdam
- Hang out in Amsterdam with Kathi
- Ride to Copenhagen
- Hang out in Copenhagen with Kathi
- Ride to Oslo
- Hang out in Oslo with Kathi
- Rent a car and drive Stavanger and Bergen with Kathi
- Ride to Stockholm
- Hang out in Stockholm with Kathi
- Ride to Helsinki
- Hang out in Helsinki with Kathi
- Kathi flys back from Helsinki while Chris rides back to Zug
- via Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany
- Chris flys back from ZUR
Daily Detail
The whole trip occupies about 32 days for Chris, 23 days for Kathi.
Kathi and Chris are together for 20 of the 23 days.
After Kathi heads home from Helsinki, Chris rides 8 more days, hangs out with Joe & Bridget before heading home.
- Fly PDX→AMS (Chris & Kathi)
- Fly AMS→ZUR, ZUR→Zug (Chris)
- Ride Zug→Frankfurt 5h15m 428km
- Ride Frankfurt→Amsterdam 4h20m 441km
- tourist CU&KB in Amsterdam
- Amsterdam→Hamburg 4h28m 464km or by 5h8m train
- tourist CU&KB in Hamburg
- Hamburg→Copenhagen 4h36m 338km
- tourist CU&KB in Copenhagen
- tourist CU&KB in Copenhagen
- Copenhagen→Oslo (Kathi flys 1h10m, Chris drives 6h30m 600km)
- tourist CU&KB in Oslo
- Rent car, drive Oslo→Stavanger 6h47m 548km
- drive Stavanger→Bergen 4h34m 207km
- drive Bergen→Oslo 7h47m 518km
- Oslo→Stockholm 6h3m 522km while Kathi Flys 55m or takes the N600 train for 7h5m
- tourist CU&KB in Stockholm
- tourist CU&KB in Stockholm
- Stockholm→Umeå, Sweden 7h 637km, while Kathi flys to Helsinki
- Umeå, Sweden→Helsinki 9h28m 540km (includes 4h45m + 4hr ferry ride)
- tourist CU&KB in Helsinki
- tourist CU&KB in Helsinki
- Kathi flys home to PDX while Chris rides 5 days to Zug, first day ferry→Talinn, Estonia 3h10m 87km
- Talinn→Riga, Latvia 5h12m 392km
- Riga→Vilnius, Lithuania 4h37m 304km
- Vilnius→Warsaw, Poland 6h51m 427km
- Warsaw→Wrocław 5h30m 349km
- Wroclaw→Dresden, Germany 4h26m 262km
- Dresden→Stuttgart, 8h32m 517km
- Stuttgart→Zug, 4h19m 256km
- Hang out with Joe
- Zug→ZUR→AMS→PDX
Flights
Hotels