The best Greek ruins, a few hours from Barcelona. Today we parody ourselves to get dreamy and think of all the possible trips we can make “a few hours from Barcelona”, yes, by bus.
It is no secret that the fever of low-cost bus travel has long spread in Europe, and that this form of travel, cheap and simple (albeit long), allows you to reach quite unsuspected points of the continent with just a few (or many) hours sitting.
From Istanbul to Rovaneimi, a Finnish city in the North Pole, almost 4,000 kilometers from Barcelona, and even going to war in Kiev. The trips that you can make by bus from Barcelona (sucking, yes, as many hours as a truck driver), are unimaginable, so today we bring you some options for you to let your imagination fly.
80 hours by bus to reach the North Pole
Travel to London? Even the English Channel is no problem. A techno party in Berlin? A mere 34 hours are to blame for the fact that you’re not enjoying it – that and a mere 174€ spent on the outward journey. A direct trip to Paris? A coffee in front of the Eiffel Tower for just €28, bought without time and in 15 hours. Although this article may seem like a eulogy to Flixbus, it is really more of a eulogy to the European road system or to the infinite field of possibilities that a bus trip offers.
The longest bus trip from Barcelona takes you to Romaneimi, the aforementioned city at the Finnish North Pole, where you will arrive after 78 hours and transfers in Lyon (France) and Krakow (Poland). For 239€, one way, a trip through the best of Europe with a view from the window.
Visit the spice market in Istanbul? 70 hours, 239 euros and a transfer in the Ukrainian city of Khmelnytskyi. Visit the Parthenon in Athens? 62 hours, 224 euros and transfers in Lyon, Bologna or Sofia.
And so on ad infinitum: Tallinn (63 hours), Kiev (60 hours), Stockholm (49 hours)? And although none of them reaches the longest trip that can be made by bus in the world (the route Lima – Rio de Janeiro, 6,200 kilometers, four countries and a hundred hours), there are a good handful of them that will allow us not only to cross countries by handfuls but also to have a good number of hours to think about how to solve each and every one of the problems that may have led us to undertake such a long trip.