Eurorail trip around Europe? Helpppp!!!?

My best friend and I will be taking the Eurorail around Europe this summer. We start off in Helsinki, Finland and we want to hit a lot of the major countries and their major cities/cities with beaches.



What would you recommend as a route to take if we wanted to arrive back in Helsinki about 2-3 weeks later?



Here is their website with their rail map:



http://www.raileurope.com/europe-travel-guide/



(Keep in mind that we are both 18 year old girls who want to go to party cities)



btw, thank you even if you are looked at this and dont respond. The two of us just need some help planning out our first major trip. :)Eurorail trip around Europe? Helpppp!!!?
The short answer, Don't.
2 or even 3 weeks is not enough time to "hit a lot of the major countries and their major cities/cities with beaches".
You will need a few days for each major city and most of those do not have the beach as part of the city, so you will have to add time if you want to go to the beach.
And from Helsinki it is a long ride in a train till you get to a city where the weather is guarantied to be warm enough for the beach.

On the map all those cities seem to be close, but from Helsinki you need 12 hours or so by ferry to reach the next main city, not included on your rail pass, and from there it will be an other few hours again.
You could do Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin and Prague, before returning towards Helsinki again, maybe via Paris and Amsterdam, but non of these cities has a beach that is famous and active through the year. If the weather happens to be nice you can find beaches near Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam, but those will not be active if/when the weather is poor, and in Northern Europe the weather is often bad, also in summer.

If you are free to change your arrival and departure airports, aim for one of the Mediterranean countries, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece and even France have good beaches that are always active, and are within reasonable traveling distance of each other. Try to leave from a different airport than where you arrived to avoid having to double up.

If you are stuck with Helsinki, reconsider getting rail passes, as you will be out on the expensive end of their area of validity and a round tour from and to Helsinki is not going to be easy.
It can be fun, but do not expect beach parties each night, rather go for nature and have a great time. Or stay in Finland and party with the Finnish people. They know how to party, but do bring a lot of money, as alcohol is not cheap nor are the living costs.

If you want to see those travel times for yourself, use this rail planner, just enter the names of the cities and set the date on the day of the week you might make that travel, it might not work for the summer yet, as some train companies will change the schedule early in summer, but the times this month will not be that different: http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.e鈥?/a>