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Routes worth taking

Cities that are better together — because of a ferry, a coast road or a two-hour train. Two stops or six, each route comes with a day-by-day plan and an honest estimate of pace.

A glacial lake in a high Pyrenean valley

Andorra la Vella

Barcelona → Andorra

From the Mediterranean to the high Pyrenees in three hours

5 days2 citiesCoach transfer

The Ha'penny Bridge over the River Liffey in Dublin

Dublin → Belfast

Two capitals, one border and the Causeway coast between them

4 days2 citiesDirect train

A figure silhouetted against the Baltic at sunset from a ferry deck

Helsinki → Tallinn

Two capitals, one short crossing of the Gulf of Finland

3 days2 citiesFerry connection

The rocky Mediterranean coastline near Nice

Nice → Monaco

Twenty-five minutes of coastline between two very different worlds

3 days2 citiesCoastal train

Riga's old town and the Daugava river seen from above

Riga → Vilnius

Art nouveau, Baroque and the Baltic interior

4 days2 citiesBus connection

The Øresund Bridge crossing the strait between Denmark and Sweden

Copenhagen → Malmö → Lund

Two countries, one bridge and three very different cities

4 days3 citiesRegional train

Ben Lomond across Loch Lomond, seen from the Arrochar Alps

Edinburgh → Glasgow → Loch Lomond & the Arrochar Alps

Two cities, then real mountains an hour and a quarter from Glasgow

5 days2 citiesTrain throughout

Terraced port vineyards above the Douro River

Lisbon → Coimbra → Porto & the Douro

Portugal north by train, ending among the port vineyards

6 days3 citiesTrain throughout

The Széchenyi Chain Bridge lit at night over the Danube in Budapest

Prague → Vienna → Budapest

Three imperial capitals, two direct trains

7 days3 citiesDirect trains

Blue-domed churches above the caldera in Oia, Santorini

Athens → Santorini → Crete

The Acropolis, the caldera and Knossos, by ferry

7 days3 citiesFerry

Arlington Row's stone cottages in Bibury, in the Cotswolds

London → Bath → Oxford & the Cotswolds

Georgian Bath, the colleges of Oxford and a day among Cotswold villages

7 days3 citiesTrain throughout

The Alhambra in Granada with the Sierra Nevada behind

Madrid → Seville → Granada

From the Prado to the Alhambra, by high-speed train

7 days3 citiesTrain throughout

Lake Como and the hillside villas seen from the lakefront in Como

Milan → Lake Como → Venice

The Last Supper, a lake among the mountains and the Grand Canal

7 days3 citiesTrain and ferry

A canal boat under a bridge on the Herengracht in Amsterdam

Paris → Brussels → Amsterdam

Three capitals on one fast line, each under two hours apart

7 days3 citiesDirect trains

The Bay of Kotor seen from the mountain road above the old town

Sarajevo → Mostar → Kotor → Petrovac → Shkodër → Tirana

Three countries down the Dinaric chain, from Ottoman river town to the Adriatic

12 days6 citiesBus, with one scenic train

Painted Church of Archangel Michael in the Troodos village of Pedoulas

Troodos Mountains

Nicosia → Troodos → Paphos

An island journey from the walled capital through mountain villages to ancient Paphos

4 days3 citiesRoad journey

The Răut River meander below the limestone cliffs of Orheiul Vechi

Chișinău → Orheiul Vechi → wine country

Capital culture, a river-bend landscape and two different wine regions

4 days4 citiesRoad journey