To let my 15yo son inter-rail around Europe for 3 weeks with his 16yo pal?

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They will visit Paris Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich, Marseille, Toulouse, Barcelona & Madrid.

It's perfectly safe, right?

Really?

Hello Kirsty

Absolutely not. Not at the age of fifteen. He’s still a child.

Kirsty Allsop tweet?

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I know you’re just having a whinge about Kirstie Allsop but there’s already a thread for that and also in all honesty I know at least a handful of 15yos who, with the right safety net, would be absolutely fine on an interrail trip so I don’t really get all the outrage.

As long as he is 16 tomorrow, has stacks of money behind and good contacts - he will be fine

'I wouldnt let my 15 year old daughter do this '

Nope nope nopety nope nope

Yes I would. I did similar.

I just can't imagine a 15 year old enjoying it that much. People inter railing and staying in hostels are pretty much all 18 plus and meeting up in bars and nightclubs etc in the evenings.

Ha... you are joking right?

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Depends on the child - my DGD(15) could do this with a pal, but DGS(18) I'm not so sure!

If they have access to money, and the confidence, most teens could inter-rail around Europe quite safely.

No.

OP, please post a list of some of your parenting decisions so us randomers on the internet can judge them without having access to all the facts.

Hard no from me.

Some 15 year olds would be able to get the regular train into the town centre let alone trains further afield let alone going abroad where is something goes wrong they've had it - it could literally be life and death.

I'm going to start calling it 'interrailing'
Rather than just using public transport to move between friends houses.

Way too young are you crazy ! 18 is young enough anything could happen . His forbid say they needed inhospitable they would need a legal guardian at that age still considered a child .

I feel like I’m out the loop on this - did Kirsty really let her child do this?!

Ofc 15/16 is too young. 18 fine.

Firstly, sod off Kirsty. Your stupid hair and silly voice, and complete inability to read the room all really annoy me. Also, your decorating "tips" are ugly.

Secondly, not unreasonable at all. If the kid is sensible and with an equally sensible friend, why not? It is a bit young, perhaps, but they seem to have had a good time. Also, they had the absolute privilege of wealth, which is being able to pick up the phone ANYWHERE and say, "mum, come and get us", and she'd be there in hours.

And stay where? What hotels / hostels allow two kids under 18 to stay alone?

No, they're too young. Foreign travel without parents is for adults - 18+.

Of course I would. I could make endless tweets (or is it X's now?) about it, until I disappeared up my own Location.

He went, it was fine, he came home in one piece.

What's the issue here??

I know this is about Kirsty. But my Dad cycled to Europe when he was 16 with a friend. It was the 60s though. But then again, he probably only wrote a postcard home, if that. I’d personally worry (a lot) about my midteen Interrailing. But I’d at least be able to track them and give them money.