Eurail

We're still in the process of planning out our holiday at the moment.

The flights are paid for, and we've been going through the Trafalgar Tours brochure and website. We've pretty much decided to do a four day tour up to Scotland and back, do a trip down to Poole to visit an aunt, then a seven day tour to Rome. After that we're going to travel around on the trains using Eurail passes and head back to England.

As the Australian dollar is quite strong at the moment, it works out cheaper to buy a Eurail pass online via their official website than to buy it from Australia. I ordered the passes the other day and they e-mailed me back with the Fedex tracking details. They started off somewhere in Massachusets (or wherever MA is), went to Memphis, now they're in Hawaii. They're getting to see more of the world than us.