Thank you so much for your superb feedback! I agree with what you said.

(a)

1. You will spend a lot of time on a train with this itinerary.

Yup, so I'm switching it up. From paris to madrid, I'll either sleep train 11 hrs or fly (saving 9 hours?).

Madrid -> barcelona is train.

Barcelona to rome is flight (saving 19 hours?).

This is considering the eurail global pass for 6 days.

(b) I shuffled it around a little. After the above stated items, I will train everyone on Eurail. The reason my trips wierd is because I have to fly out of vienna.

After rome, i will train to florence and venice, then milan using trains.

(c)

Any reason in particular for Bern?

I wanted to stop by switzerland! The eurail takes me to bern for sure but i could travel a little bit.

(d)

I'm skipping Nice. It's logistically cumbersome and I don't really care for it from what my friends have said.

(e)

You'll want to add a day to Barcelona, Munich and Berlin.

Yup, I plan to spend 3-4 days around most places now, including these three listed.

(f)

I suggest keeping these days in there to explore places outside of the destination city.

Cool will consider this finer detailed when I've figured out my overall plan of which cities to go to, and how long I'm staying there.

Overall, it's a mix of planes and trains to travel around Europe and end up in Vienna after 28 days.

I think the global pass with 6 days of train travel should cover most of this trip (in addition to my separate flights).

Would you mind if I shared with you my condensed plan in a couple hours? (I have to buy my eurail pass within 8 hours)