As above, Seat 61 is a great resource for this sort of stuff. It sounds like Faro to Paris followed by Paris to Ghent. You might just be able to squeeze it in to 2 days depending on how late the trains run to Brussels.
We did Interrail pass last summer, it's all done with an app these days and getting seat reservations wasn't too bad. Most difficult part was Eurostar. I we had seats for all but about half hour, and travelled from Manchester > London > Brussels > Bruges > Essen > Hamburg > Copenhagen > Hamburg > Cologne > The Hague > Rotterdam > Brussels > London > Manchester.
@hippy friends did London > Milan in a day last year for around £65, Eurostar followed by direct train. Might be more expensive in August and with bikes.
As above, Seat 61 is a great resource for this sort of stuff. It sounds like Faro to Paris followed by Paris to Ghent. You might just be able to squeeze it in to 2 days depending on how late the trains run to Brussels.
We did Interrail pass last summer, it's all done with an app these days and getting seat reservations wasn't too bad. Most difficult part was Eurostar. I we had seats for all but about half hour, and travelled from Manchester > London > Brussels > Bruges > Essen > Hamburg > Copenhagen > Hamburg > Cologne > The Hague > Rotterdam > Brussels > London > Manchester.
@hippy friends did London > Milan in a day last year for around £65, Eurostar followed by direct train. Might be more expensive in August and with bikes.