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RE: By train through Europe - 1st August - Kolding
I got them from one of the cheaper shoe shops that tend to sell knock-off brands. They were supposed to be 60€, but were 50% off (for comparison: I got a pair of original Dr. Martens for 120€).
Damn. That's a lot on my end. Anyway, thank you for sharing :)
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Yeah, it's not super cheap (although 20-30€ is usually the cheapest you can go before the shoes are total shit). Different countries, different standards. Another thing that was very obvious on our trip, especially when it came to food.
Switzerland was so, so expensive.
Maybe. Most of us in Africa usually live off the second hand shoes and that range of 20-30 is probably still high for most of us. But oddly there are those who can afford the 120 without a sweat. I think it's more of who, not where if you get what I mean.
I have always wanted to travel at some point in my life. How I will manage to budget for it is what freaks me out, lol. How do you deal with figuring out that food will cost you more at some point of your travel? What if you are working on a tight budget? Tricky
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One thing I highly recommend is visiting people. We had to pay for an airbnb twice, but aside from that stayed with Steemians or Couchsurfers (couchsurfing is free). This already saves a lot of cost, and if you're staying with friends, they might even include you in their daily cooking.
Aside from that, it helps to check how expensive different countries will be. While in Hungary, we re-stocked our "emergency food" (mainly cereal bars and dried fruit), because we knew that food prices there are ridiculously low (compared to most other countries).
If you google "food prices in country", you can usually get a breakdown somewhere of how high those are.
Before we entered Switzerland, we stocked up on cheap pasta and Pesto in Italy, to be able to cook. 6€ for 4 meals, basically.
In the end, it boils down to how much you can spend, you want to cook, if you want to eat out or see tourist attractions. We didn't enter many museums and mainly stuck to free activities.
Still, we love eating out, so most of our "free" budget (that wasn't tied up in transportation) was spent on food in restaurants.
Knowing how many calories you need can help ease your mind, we packed two bags of nuts, which would have provided enough kcal for a day - in case we would have run out of food for some reason.
This is like the best break down of traveling ever! Thank you for this so much. I didn't know 'couchsurfers' leave alone it being free. Airbnb is all I know about.
I am okay with cooking as I am choosy as hell so that helps a lot. I am a poor feeder so that's another huge plus. I think the fact that I love the freedom of exploration I'd choose to roam the streets rather than a museum somewhere.
What else? Oh. If I ever drop by your place of residence, I have e-booked your couch in advance. Thank you Suesa 😊
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The couch will be free for you, and we will cook :)
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