Round the world trip?

[Kardan]

How long do you plan to stay in Leicester? A few minutes? It'll be the highlight of your journey

Good luck with it, sounds amazing I'd love to do this sometime in the future aswell...

[5,5]

I love traveling and seeing new places. I'm going to when I'm older for sure.

[Ramones]

I highly considered this but decided to just apply for uni this year coming because of financial reasons. You sound like you know what your talking about but if i was you i'd wanna spend more time in each place, if you do what you've planned by the end of it you may have been everywhere but probably not of seen everywhere, i'd wanna spend atleast a few days in each place i go.
Have you considered going on one run by a gap year company, i was highly considering realgap, they came to my college and i went to talk about it in manchester. Costs are gonna be pretty high, talking £3000+ but everythings arranged for you, theres no hassle.
But then again i'd like the idea of doing things my own way haha.
You'll need to make forecasts of costs and if it's realistic for you at the time or not, but your doing the right thing planning early, i think if i started planning earlier i'd probably be going on a gap year next year but meh,
maybe after uni, when i'm in thousands of pounds of debt eh?

[Jordy]

A 7-12 day train ride?! I wouldn't survive!

I would love a round-the-world trip, but I've always pictured getting around by plane. Good plan though!

Hmm that's what most of the journey is, I just checked and it's actually 6-7 days and the trans-Siberian railway is easily the longest in the world, though I'm technically going on the Trans-Mongolian trip which just misses Siberia but the rest of it follows the same route.

How long do you plan to stay in Leicester? A few minutes? It'll be the highlight of your journey

Good luck with it, sounds amazing I'd love to do this sometime in the future aswell...

An hour maximum?

It's just 15 minutes away from me so I can catch some St Pancras train from Long Eaton but then at Leicester I'll just change to a high-speed one, it'll save me an hour or two going on a high-speed train, more time in Paris

I highly considered this but decided to just apply for uni this year coming because of financial reasons. You sound like you know what your talking about but if i was you i'd wanna spend more time in each place, if you do what you've planned by the end of it you may have been everywhere but probably not of seen everywhere, i'd wanna spend atleast a few days in each place i go.
Have you considered going on one run by a gap year company, i was highly considering realgap, they came to my college and i went to talk about it in manchester. Costs are gonna be pretty high, talking £3000+ but everythings arranged for you, theres no hassle.
But then again i'd like the idea of doing things my own way haha.
You'll need to make forecasts of costs and if it's realistic for you at the time or not, but your doing the right thing planning early, i think if i started planning earlier i'd probably be going on a gap year next year but meh,
maybe after uni, when i'm in thousands of pounds of debt eh?

I reckon this should be around £2000, the sleeper-trains are actually quite cheap, it's only about £250 to get from Moscow to Beijing in 7 days but yet it'll be about £400-500 for the Shanghai > San Francisco and New York > UK flights

Travel Insurance will also be needed and I suspect that'll be expensive, I was checking up on Visa's earlier and they seem to be particularly expensive, on the Berlin > Moscow train ride it goes through Poland and Belarus, Poland is in the EU so I'm fine going through there but for just a few hours travelling through Belarus it's going to cost about £90 to get a Visa. Russia and China are similar prices but at least I spend time there. Getting a visa in America should be easy and I'm hoping Canada will be easy too. Getting all the trains and flights booked will be difficult as some of them you can only book a few months in advance.

Security also needs to be taken into account, I really don't fancy walking around Paris late in the evening but there's no other option, that's the main problem that I'm going to be carrying around a laptop, probably a decent camera and phone and a few suitcases...

I could probably spend a bit more time in them all but I should be able to do the highlights of each city and then if I enjoy them I can revisit in later life, I've seen bits of Paris already and there's a few other bits I want to see there but I can always get there easily. Not sure about Berlin I'm sure I can easily spend a day or two there and Moscow should be easy to spend time in too. Beijing & Shanghai there should also be enough to do and then San Francisco and Vancouver too, lots to do there, Toronto I could see the Niagara falls & CN Tower, unsure what's in Montreal and then New York I'm sure I could spend ages there.

I also worry that if one train was late or whatever I could miss bits of the trip, if need be I could fly ahead but that's not cheap or ideal. Probably won't have the time or money to take a year out sadly, it could well be up to £3000 I just realised

[MrGazet]

wow too much to consider planning it all urself eh? i wud like to travel round the world someday but by planes please heh
i can imagine however the great fun travelling round with trains

neways,good luck mate

[Skajo]

I was planning on doing a Europe trip - i.e going to every country on Europe, however, with a twist. To cut down on costs and really take our time I was planning on going round on a bike. I know we could only probably do about 150/200 miles a day but that's enough and I was thinking maybe 6 weeks which is around 8,000 miles which should be enough for some countries anyway. It will cut down on costs, camping and couch surfing (Google it) and it will certainly be the trip of a lifetime.

I wouldn't do it on my own though .

[Cylinder]

I was planning on doing a Europe trip - i.e going to every country on Europe, however, with a twist. To cut down on costs and really take our time I was planning on going round on a bike. I know we could only probably do about 150/200 miles a day but that's enough and I was thinking maybe 6 weeks which is around 8,000 miles which should be enough for some countries anyway. It will cut down on costs, camping and couch surfing (Google it) and it will certainly be the trip of a lifetime.

I wouldn't do it on my own though .

I watched a 4-part documentary before on a guy who cycled round the world to beat a record, looked like fun but he was so knackered. He could only manage 100miles a day or something, I think?

[Jordy]

I watched a 4-part documentary before on a guy who cycled round the world to beat a record, looked like fun but he was so knackered. He could only manage 100miles a day or something, I think?

He might be thinking of a Motorbike and not a pushbike, not sure

[Cylinder]

He might be thinking of a Motorbike and not a pushbike, not sure

lol...never even crossed my mind that, haha. Your probably right . I automatically assumed push bike because I was blurring on about the documentary, lol.

[Firehorse]

It will sure cost a fortune with the current exchange rate, you may wanna go after you leave uni at this rate...