Help in Itinerary!!! (Transport-related questions...)

Hi All!

Although I have been reading a lot about Austria and other places through the help on this site, this is my very first post in TripAdvisor..I hope you would be able to help me :)

I am from Malta, and my boyfriend and I are planning to visit my friend who lives in Innsbruck,Austria, end of September. We decided to extend this visit to 14 days in total, so that after a week in Austria, we might be able to visit another country...

However, we cannot really choose what is best (in terms of budget and timing, as we will be travelling by train) for our second week, between :

- Slovenia (Bled, Ljubljana and the area)

- or Venice and Florence, in Italy

(Of course, we have no direct flights from Malta to Austria or Slovenia, so we are going to Austria via Munich, and we have to come back according to our last destination...)

I really wished I could combine the three of them, since they are all such magnificent places, but it seems too impossible for a 2 weeks%26#39; period, as there is so much to see and also I think it involves too many train connections...am I right?

So...would really appreciate if you could help me choose the best by explaining better (and the cheapest if possible) the transport system between these countries, departing from Austria. Unfortunately although I am choosing English on the site (www.oebb.at/) whenever I click on something it gets back to German...of which I do not understand a single word :$....Please help!!!

Thanks a lot!

JDB

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It does not make any sense to visit them all as it is too much to fit in a week. In the end you must decide what is more important to you. Innsbruck is not a good base to head for Slovenia. If you should decide for Slovenia, I%26#39;d eventually go for a rental car as rail is pretty inefficient thereto. Moreover, you should know that many European countries mandate possession of toll stickers being adhered to the windshield in order to use motorways. Fines for not doing so are steep (Austria: ~130€). If you decide for Italy, you should rely on trains as driving in Italian cities can be a nightmare. As Innsbruck is located on a major North-South railway corridor it would be pretty easy to travel there.

Austrian Railway Operator ÖBB Itinerary planer:

http://fahrplan.oebb.at/bin/query.exe/e

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As a matter of fact I just spoke with my friend in Austria and she told me to opt for Italy rather.

So we should catch a train from Innsbruck HBF to Brennero, and then we get another train from there to Verona, and from there another one to Firenze...right?

Thanks again for your help!!

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It is also possible with only one transfer in Bologna.

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