Backpacking/cheap year of travel around Europe.

[dibbs]

Been very interested in travelling around Europe for a year or so. I have a fair amount of money so that's not a huge problem, but I'd prefer to keep it simple, myself and a friend or two basically travelling around as cheap as possible staying in hostiles or whatever.

Anyone have any experience with this? I don't even know where to start really or how to formulate a plan. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks guys.

[Evan]

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[eviljeff]

pick up a Lonely Planet or Let's Go Europe guidebook
book accomodations as you go with hostelworld.com or hostels.com

[Atropos]

ultra cheap train travel (http://www.interrail.net/)

This seems to be quite cool for travelling through Europe. I know some friends who did it and where quite content. I plan on doing this in around 1 year, however it's much easier for me because I already am in Europe /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[kenberman]

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pick up a Lonely Planet or Let's Go Europe guidebook
book accomodations as you go with hostelworld.com or hostels.com

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Lonely Planet is much more geared to solo/very cheap travel.

Let's Go is written by Harvard kids with a bit more money. Let's Go certainly doesn't assume you have $150/day to spend, but it also gives you some decent restaurant reco's for when you want to splurge.

[MrMon]

Pretty much throughout Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), if you go to the tourist office in any town, they'll find a local family for you to stay with for a pretty cheap price. Except for the member of the Danish Nazi Party we got stuck with in Copenhagen, it was an interesting time. I highly recommend traveling the Norwegian coast by train, bus, ferry. Make it to the Lofoten Islands if you can in summer, you can stay in the fishing huts for like $5 a night. (They're actually more like a spartan lodge.)

For GB, you can often stay on farms or in pubs in the rural areas.

One essential book you'll want to get will be a Thomas Cook European Timetable. Invaluable for finding out how to get anywhere by train.

I also like Let's Go and Lonely Planet.

[MonkeeMan]

My only advice is that it is definately NOT OK to openly smoke hash in German clubs.

[dibbs]

Very, very useful links guys, thank you very much.