How much of Europe could I see in 2 weeks?

2 weeks worth

Not near enough, you could spend two weeks alone in the countryside of France. It's a pretty objectionable question though. You budget and what you plan to see are major factors

I've been on two month long trips throughout Europe and Russia, I still haven't come close to seeing everything. Venice is my shite though

man, you could make it to a hell of a lot more than that in two weeks....the question is, how much time do you want to spend in each place...

personally, no matter what I am doing, I am ready to come home after two weeks....

I spent about 3 days in Amsterdam when I lived in London. I would definitely go to Paris, it's a beautiful city. Venice was also nice, but only needed 2 days there. Personally I would fly into London stay 3 days, go to Paris for 3 days, then either Bruges for 1, and Amsterdam for 2, or Switzerland/Austria for 3, then hit Munich, Berlin, and fly out of Frankfurt. Could possibly hit Prague for a day or so if going the Switzerland route. You can travel at night in some cases and save on hostels.

Three days in paris??? What kind of strange did you run into there??

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the question is, how much time do you want to spend in each place...

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Yeah that's really the thing. I mean I live in NYC now and I couldn't imagine a foreigner getting a good experience only being here for 2 nights or something so I'm hesitant to just have like 2 nights in the major cities.

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Yeah that's really the thing. I mean I live in NYC now and I couldn't imagine a foreigner getting a good experience only being here for 2 nights or something so I'm hesitant to just have like 2 nights in the major cities.

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It honestly depends on the size of the city and how efficient you are in traveling. I just did a quick two-week trip around central Europe this past summer, met up with friends in a few places a long the way who were also passing through. For cities like Salzburg, Innsbruck, and Vienna, and maybe even Prague, it's very feasible to knock out most of what you want to see in 2 nights or less. Obviously, if you want to do bigger cities with more museums and sights, like Munich, Berlin, London, Paris, etc., it's going to take a lot longer like you say.

If you bang out a fast trip like that, make sure you take care of yourself. I did a lot of pub crawls and didn't really eat well or sleep right and was feeling like arse most of the time during the second half of that trip. All that constant traveling when in that physical state can be pretty taxing. Back to the pub crawl bit, be selective. Most of them just take you around to bars and try to get you hammered before dropping you off at some nightclub. That's fun to a certain extent especially if single and also traveling solo, but I would prefer going to actual pubs in London or beer gardens in Munich if trying to get the real experience.

I say do like three major cities, and my suggestion is, fly into Amsterdam, (Schipol), major international airport, so affordable flights regularly connect here from transatlantic, to beyond and throughout the EU. Spend 3-4 day in Amsterdam, rent a bike, smoke some weed, bang a hooker, enjoy the sights and scenery. Apart from the vice reputation, the city itself in its historic canal ring, in imho opinion the most aesthetically appealing city I've seen (I could be biased because I live here).

Then from Amsterdam either take flixbus (if you're feeling like a hard-traveling warrior, it's an 8+ hour busride, but surely for under a 100 roundtrip), or fly depending on budget and deals available to Berlin. Spend 4 days in Berlin, and then unless you find better flights from Berlin (doubtful), hop back on the bus (or plane) to Amsterdam and then fly vueling airlines from Schipol (AMS) to El Prat (BCN), Barcelona.

Their hub is in Barcelona, and Schipol is one of the EU's most well-connected airports, so they have a fairly budgetable route back and forth between Amsterdam and Barcelona (usually under 150 roundtrip, I've paid 130 booking my flight less than 12 hours in advance). And then like I said if you need to make the roundtrip back to Dam one last time, it's probably cheaper or a better deal just to buy a roundtrip flight anyway. But explore the flights between those three cities.

In Barcelona, you can do a day or one-night excursion, north to the Costa Brava, which are pristine beaches dotted by coastal resort towns, located within a 1.5 hour busride of the city, and a great way to escape the city crowds and heat, highly recommended. I would say you'll probably want the most time in Barcelona of any city.

Probably enough to decide that America isn't so bad. That is, if you are still among the living after two weeks is up.

I would do 3 cities max in a 2 week span. That way you can really enjoy each city and not waste to much time traveling from city to city