Tips for Low Cost Backpacking to Europe (IV)

Posted by mzPOTTER | February 8th, 2010 in Backpacking | 1 Comment »

5- Gather all possible information about sites to visit

Traveling is where that phrase becomes important that information is power. If you can, you should buy little by little, some travel guides to cities you plan to travel. To me, for example, buy a small guide to London (the cheapest, 90 pesos in Sanborn’s) helped me learn all the “City” of the British capital (the City is the historic center).

An example. In this guide I learned that a bus is taken into Victoria Station (I think it is 24) traverses the same locations as those buses “sightseeing” (they do tours of the sights). So, just boarded the truck and went down in every place I wanted to know. From Trafalgar Square to Westminster Abbey, etc.

Now, if you do not want to spend on this, as is the internet and advice they can give other travelers. What matters is being the best informed as possible.Now, if you have no money to buy the guide or simply do not want to spend on that, you can use public libraries or universities and ask for guidelines from different countries. There, retrieves the information you want, copy and that’s it.

Another source that will help you is the same information given in tourist information centers. Ask a map (usually free) and then see what subway lines or transport pass through the most important places.

6- Make contact with people or friends in Europe

Another thing that may help is to have contacts in Europe. There will always be a friend of an aunt of a friend who has an acquaintance in Brussels, Rome, Amsterdam, etc.

For example, in my case, a friend knew another friend that his sister lived in London. Thus, I offered to take things from San Luis Potosi (my hometown) to it. Chocolates were Constanzo (only those made in St. Louis), candy, cards and stuff. It was a small box. It gave them (she went to my hostel to pick up the package and invited me to breakfast) and after two days, I asked that instead of following in the hostel, I stayed in his apartment and so I save 75 pounds (as 110 euros) for London hostels are the most expensive of all Europe (more than double those in Paris that only cost between 12 and 20 euros).

The case of this friend in London is interesting, as she toured the UK as an au pair to study and this is another of the options that exist.

And there’s another resource: Internet friends. Thanks to them I was in Czech Republic, Italy and Spain many days as I was privileged to make very nice friends with whom I traveled, I shared and I had fun. And you are friends for life.

Nothing less than a few weeks ago I got a gift from my Czech friends and am in constant contact with my friends, Italian and Spanish. While clear, these friendships were forged in a year or ICQ e-mail, phone calls, etc. .. and the trip simply consolidó.Y now my dream is that they go to Mexico and bring them to know many places.

source: http://www.viatgeaddictes.com/dst/altres/exp1_europa.php


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