[0:00] there is so much you need to know before
[0:01] you plan a backpacking Europe trip and
[0:04] so this video is going to tell you every
[0:06] single thing you need to know about
[0:08] backpacking Europe from flights to
[0:10] budget to urel accommodation and hostels
[0:14] Transportation souvenirs everything you
[0:17] could possibly think of I'm going to
[0:19] tell you all about it so I went
[0:20] backpacking last year for a month with
[0:22] my friend Sophie after semester at C and
[0:26] we went to 13 different countries some
[0:29] of them I went on my own most of them
[0:31] were with Sophie and then I visited a
[0:32] couple other friends in some of the
[0:34] other countries so I went to Germany
[0:37] Denmark Poland Czech Republic Hungary
[0:41] Italy Switzerland France England Wales
[0:46] Iceland and Ireland I think that's all
[0:48] of them I've kind of divided these into
[0:50] two different sections so kind of what
[0:52] you need to do before you leave and then
[0:54] traveling things once you're there that
[0:56] kind of stuff and then each of those
[0:58] have different categories Within each of
[1:00] them I have literally a massive it's
[1:03] like a 1500w document of like all my
[1:05] notes and make sure I remember because
[1:07] there's actually there is quite a bit
[1:09] you need to know about backpacking and
[1:12] you can just kind of wing it but there
[1:15] are definitely some things that will
[1:16] make your life a lot easier when you're
[1:17] backpacking if you know them ahead of
[1:19] time first of all your rough Plan before
[1:21] you leave you kind of have to make a
[1:22] base of what countries you want to go
[1:24] not that you can't spontaneously do
[1:26] something when you're there but you
[1:28] should have kind of a rough plan of what
[1:30] countries you want to go to in what
[1:31] order just because it's a lot cheaper to
[1:34] not zigzag back and forth across Europe
[1:37] so you want to reduce your travel time
[1:39] and also reduce costs by going kind of
[1:42] countries next to each other instead of
[1:44] going from one end of Europe to the
[1:46] other order doesn't really matter unless
[1:48] you are trying to hit a specific event
[1:51] in a country if you're trying to do a
[1:53] lot in not a lot of time like we went to
[1:55] 13 countries in one month I would
[1:57] recommend 2 to three days per country I
[1:59] think on average mine was 2 days but
[2:02] like Iceland I was there for 6 days so
[2:04] it just kind of depends what your plan
[2:06] is obviously Iceland was kind of a
[2:09] farther away country so that necess more
[2:12] time and I'll go through this more but
[2:14] definitely try to book overnight trains
[2:16] if possible because then you're not
[2:18] having to book another night of
[2:20] accommodation and also you're not taking
[2:22] daylight to travel to a whole different
[2:24] country so that is my base
[2:26] recommendation there as far as flights
[2:28] obviously you need to buy your flights
[2:30] to Europe if you're already in Europe
[2:32] and planning to a backpack trip then you
[2:35] don't really need to worry so much about
[2:36] flights but seeing as I'm from the US so
[2:39] this is from a US perspective flights to
[2:41] Europe are obviously more expensive if
[2:43] possible don't try to be too strict with
[2:45] dates because flights could be much
[2:47] cheaper if you went like a day earlier
[2:49] or came back a day later or whatever so
[2:51] try and be flexible and move the your
[2:54] start and end dates around a little bit
[2:55] just to see you might get a much cheaper
[2:58] flight price and always make sure that
[2:59] that you have the flexibility to change
[3:02] your flights if possible so if something
[3:04] happens at home and you have to come
[3:06] home early it's way nicer to know that
[3:09] you can change your flight without an
[3:10] extra cost or wasting the money of that
[3:12] flight if you have that flexibility
[3:14] built into your ticket originally so I
[3:16] would highly recommend making sure to do
[3:18] that also just in case you're making
[3:20] spontaneous plans and all of a sudden
[3:21] you meet somebody you meet a friend and
[3:23] you want to go to this country oh now
[3:25] you can easily change your plans and
[3:27] your flights so being able to be
[3:29] flexible is the most important part of
[3:31] backpacking also smaller flights if
[3:32] you're going to a different country or
[3:34] if you're going to Islands like if you
[3:35] want to fly out to sanini from Athens
[3:38] right those flights can definitely be
[3:40] booked much shorter in advance and also
[3:42] usually much cheaper than probably
[3:44] people in the US are used to but I would
[3:46] still heavily recommend trains over ples
[3:49] so this kind of goes into your rail I'm
[3:50] going to talk about your rail now inter
[3:52] rail is for those who live in Europe but
[3:53] for anybody who doesn't live in Europe
[3:55] you get a UR Rail Pass which is
[3:57] basically the same thing but for
[3:59] different cens uril is amazing and you
[4:02] don't need to be at a train station
[4:04] multiple hours early like you do at an
[4:06] airport so it just saves a lot of time
[4:08] and overall if you get a Euro pass
[4:10] you'll be spending less money you can
[4:12] get many more trains for the price of a
[4:14] Euro ticket than you will get for planes
[4:15] and planes largely only go to larger
[4:17] destinations so of course if it happens
[4:19] to work out and you've run through all
[4:20] the days on your Euro pass your rail is
[4:22] getting harder and harder to say then of
[4:24] course you can book a flight but I would
[4:26] highly recommend trains trains also go
[4:28] to smaller cities and Destin ations
[4:30] whereas planes are only going to largely
[4:32] go to bigger cities there are multiple
[4:34] different kinds of passes I believe I
[4:36] got the 15 days in two months which
[4:38] basically just means you can use trains
[4:41] you can go on any number of trains you
[4:42] want on a travel day so you add 15
[4:44] travel days in the span of two months
[4:46] those are flexi passes so you can get a
[4:48] four five or seven days travel in one
[4:51] month or you can get 10 or 15 days of
[4:53] travel within two months so I could go
[4:55] on three different trains on one day
[4:58] like midnight to midnight and that would
[5:00] still only count as one travel a so
[5:02] that's a really nice thing about Ur rail
[5:04] if you're trying to cross a great
[5:05] distance or if your path just has a lot
[5:08] of different layovers to get to whatever
[5:10] City you're going to continuous passes
[5:13] you can get 15 or 22 days in a row so
[5:15] that's like every single day for 15 or
[5:17] 22 days or you can get one two or three
[5:19] months in a row continuous passes are
[5:21] honestly way more than you need and way
[5:23] more expensive just because it gives you
[5:26] the opportunity to travel every day if
[5:28] you want to but but that's really
[5:30] unrealistic and you probably won't do
[5:32] that anyway so I highly recommend just
[5:35] getting the flexi passes they're also
[5:38] different prices so if you're a youth
[5:39] which qualifies as 12 to 27y Old then
[5:42] those passes are slightly cheaper than
[5:44] the adult ones which are 28 to 59 years
[5:47] old and the child 4 to 11 is free and
[5:50] Senior 60 plus is less an adult but more
[5:54] than youth I think I'm not totally sure
[5:56] highly recommend getting that cheaper
[5:59] ticket there's there's also first class
[6:01] and second class I got a second class
[6:02] ticket you don't need a first class
[6:04] ticket it's just more money basically
[6:06] especially if you're trying to do it on
[6:07] a budget that's what I recommend as
[6:09] amazing as URL is it is also a little
[6:11] bit confusing to use you have the URL
[6:14] app and then you just search the train
[6:16] or City station that you want to go to
[6:20] from where you are and the app will give
[6:22] you a whole bunch of different options
[6:23] like different times and different
[6:25] amounts of layovers or how long it'll
[6:27] take and you basically just add the
[6:29] train to your app and it will keep track
[6:32] of it and then don't activate that pass
[6:35] until you either get on that train or
[6:38] the conductor comes by and asks for your
[6:40] ticket because there are sometimes in
[6:42] northern Europe especially Germany where
[6:45] nobody came by to ask for a ticket so
[6:47] you kind of waste one of your travel
[6:49] days if you activate the ticket and
[6:52] nobody comes by granted most of the time
[6:54] people do come by but we've had a few
[6:56] times where nobody ever did so don't
[6:59] activate your pass until the conductor
[7:01] is coming towards you because you don't
[7:03] need to show anyone the pass really to
[7:05] get on the train the eural app also has
[7:07] a really nice map where you can add all
[7:09] of the trains you want to take in the
[7:11] future and it shows you a map of like
[7:13] where they all are and where they're
[7:14] going which ones you've taken and stuff
[7:15] like that so that's really nice to be
[7:17] able to actually visually see all the
[7:19] different trains you're taking and the
[7:21] thing with overnight trains so trains
[7:23] that are specifically marked overnight
[7:25] trains you need to buy a separate seat
[7:28] reservation for some trains that are
[7:30] like more common paths you will need to
[7:33] get to reservations for anyway which you
[7:35] can do either in the actual train
[7:37] station or you can't do them online
[7:40] which is kind of annoying but before you
[7:42] leave you can get them ordered and
[7:44] delivered to your house or most commonly
[7:46] you just go to the train station a few
[7:48] days before or once you first get to
[7:50] Europe I would recommend going to
[7:52] whatever major train station you're at
[7:53] and just say I need these seat
[7:55] reservations or I need these overnight
[7:57] passes because
[7:59] you cannot get on an overnight train if
[8:02] you do not have a overnight seat
[8:04] reservation we learned that the hard way
[8:06] we were stranded in a tiny little
[8:09] abandoned town in Denmark and I wouldn't
[8:12] recommend it so make sure if you need an
[8:15] overnight pass or you even need a seat
[8:18] reservation you get that figured out we
[8:20] went into Berlin train station and just
[8:22] went to the ticket desk they have a
[8:25] specific like location that you'll be
[8:27] able to find and they were super helpful
[8:29] with figuring out all the different SE
[8:31] reservations that we needed cuz the app
[8:34] doesn't really let you know about that
[8:36] you kind of have to figure that one out
[8:38] on your own unless you already know it
[8:39] so I would recommend figuring that out
[8:42] the second you get into Europe if you
[8:44] haven't already ordered your seat
[8:45] reservations find a train station say
[8:48] these are the ones I need and they will
[8:50] help you out it's not really that
[8:51] expensive some of them were literally
[8:53] like5 some of them were more expensive
[8:56] like the Eurostar from France to England
[8:58] that one was more expensive but that's
[8:59] more expensive train in general seat
[9:01] reservations something you need to know
[9:03] about but as long as you get them figure
[9:05] it out especially for overnights
[9:07] especially for overnight trains but if
[9:08] you figure it out then it's not a
[9:10] problem so just keep that in mind as far
[9:12] as budget I actually last week posted my
[9:16] backpacking budget video so I'll link
[9:18] that here and you can watch it cuz I
[9:20] went through every single thing I bought
[9:21] and the price of everything for
[9:24] accommodation Transportation food
[9:26] excursions and souvenirs for every
[9:28] single country I went to and I gave an
[9:30] average per day budget so you can watch
[9:33] that video for more in- depth about a
[9:35] budget but I think I determined that my
[9:37] average per day for everything was like
[9:41] $150 not euros dollars obviously I'm
[9:44] American so all of my money came into my
[9:46] account already translated into dollars
[9:50] I think at the time though the Euro was
[9:51] pretty similar to dollars so there
[9:54] wasn't really that much of a difference
[9:56] at that time anyway but also just keep
[9:58] in mind that some countries are way more
[10:00] expensive than others Poland was one of
[10:02] my cheapest ones uh Switzerland is super
[10:04] expensive as is Iceland is also super
[10:06] expensive so if you want a more
[10:09] expensive or less expensive it just
[10:11] depends on what countries you go to also
[10:13] what cities and what kind of activities
[10:16] you want to do but you can totally
[10:17] tailor it to whatever kind of budget you
[10:20] have now for packing I also made an
[10:22] unpack with me from my backpacking trip
[10:26] video a few months ago so I'll link that
[10:28] here as well so I won't go through like
[10:30] every single detail of what's important
[10:32] CU I definitely mentioned all those in
[10:33] that video but I'll go through a few
[10:35] things here of what's important to
[10:37] remember carryon is so worth it okay
[10:41] bring carryon only luggage it doesn't
[10:43] matter how long you are going it's so
[10:45] worth it and also try not to bring a
[10:48] roller carry-on suitcase you will get so
[10:52] so so tired of rolling your suitcase
[10:56] over cobblestones you will wreck the
[10:57] wheels of your suitcase if you do that
[10:59] and you'll be so tired of hearing that
[11:02] clacking noise of your suitcase dragging
[11:03] along behind you on the on the
[11:05] cobblestones you'll just want to pick it
[11:06] up and carry it anyway it's I highly
[11:09] highly recommend going backpacks only I
[11:11] double backpack this so I had my Osprey
[11:14] Fairview 40 so that was a carry-on
[11:16] backpack and then I also had just like
[11:18] my regular school backpack Jan Sport
[11:21] backpack and so I had my 40 L backpack
[11:24] on here and then I would carry my school
[11:26] backpack on my front everybody knows
[11:28] your backpacking that's okay that's kind
[11:30] of part of the fun of it all but
[11:33] backpacking is so much better than
[11:35] having any kind of suitcase I just
[11:38] cannot recommend it enough as far as the
[11:40] actual things you bring with less is
[11:43] more okay you do not need the like 14
[11:47] different dresses that you think you
[11:48] will wear you won't wear them put
[11:51] everything you think you want to bring
[11:52] then take half back okay you don't need
[11:54] that much also packing cubes very
[11:56] important I got most of my packing cubes
[11:58] on Amazon I'm pretty sure and you just
[12:01] have to find ones that kind of lay the
[12:04] best so I had a bigger one for most of
[12:07] everything and then I kind of had a
[12:08] smaller one that was for like shorts and
[12:10] pants and then I had a wider one that I
[12:13] put all my um bras and underwear and
[12:15] socks in but because it was wide
[12:18] everything was flat so packing Cube
[12:19] itself ended up being pretty flat so I
[12:21] could just slide it in the top pocket
[12:23] which is actually a really nice way to
[12:25] have that because the bigger things are
[12:28] the harder they are fit in a backpack so
[12:30] that was actually really smart was to
[12:31] have a flat packing cube with all of
[12:34] that stuff in that I could just slide in
[12:35] wherever I needed it to go and also you
[12:38] will walk probably 20,000 steps every
[12:41] single day bring comfortable shoes you
[12:45] need comfortable shoes I brought my Vans
[12:49] and I brought birken stocks I've walked
[12:52] thousands of miles in my birken stocks
[12:55] okay so whatever you know that you will
[12:57] feel comfortable walking miles in bring
[13:00] that and you only need like two pairs of
[13:02] shoes really now for the actual
[13:04] traveling part I'm actually going to
[13:06] start with currency because obviously
[13:08] most of Europe uses the Euro and very
[13:12] rarely will you need actual cash you can
[13:14] always get some cash beforehand at your
[13:17] local bank which I would recommend
[13:19] because usually those are better
[13:20] exchange rates than if you try to use an
[13:22] ATM in country you probably won't need
[13:25] to use cash very much I would recommend
[13:27] having a credit card which has no
[13:29] foreign transaction fees because then
[13:31] you can also get points on everything
[13:33] you buy and then you don't have to pay
[13:35] for fees for foreign transactions so
[13:38] that is what I did I had the Amazon
[13:40] Prime card which is no transaction fees
[13:42] you can get a little bit beforehand
[13:43] especially if you're going to countries
[13:44] that don't use the euro I'm honestly not
[13:46] sure how many of those are
[13:49] left maybe just more Eastern Europe but
[13:53] I I could be wrong or maybe like
[13:55] Scandinavia like Norway maybe doesn't
[13:58] use the euro I'm not sure I didn't go to
[14:00] Norway so I couldn't tell you that for
[14:02] certain honestly you don't really need
[14:04] to carry much cash at all hosts use
[14:07] hostile world we used it every single
[14:09] time we booked it was amazing always
[14:11] worked it was great basically you just
[14:13] search the city you want to go to and
[14:15] then pick the cheapest one that's also
[14:17] closest to the city center uh because
[14:19] you will spend way less time walking if
[14:21] your hostel is already like right in the
[14:23] city center and that worked out
[14:25] brilliantly for us every single time we
[14:28] also
[14:29] mostly only booked hostil like a few
[14:32] nights ahead we really didn't plan that
[14:35] much in advance you can get your first
[14:38] few nights hostel before you get there
[14:41] or even your second City or your second
[14:44] country's hostels before you leave but
[14:47] honestly after that you don't really
[14:48] need to because there will almost always
[14:50] be open spots unless you're going in the
[14:52] peak of Summer then you might want to
[14:54] try to book them a little bit more in
[14:56] advance but there was always a available
[14:59] spots also keep track of holidays in
[15:02] certain countries because our friend who
[15:05] came with us to Prague they had this
[15:08] witch burning holiday something that was
[15:12] going on in Prague the weekend we were
[15:14] there and we luckily were staying the
[15:17] night before but our friend was staying
[15:18] the next night and every single room and
[15:22] every single hostel and hotel in the
[15:24] entire city was booked every single one
[15:27] so you should be cautious of if there's
[15:30] going to be holidays in the places
[15:32] you're going to that might need you to
[15:36] rethink how you're going to plan hosts
[15:38] or maybe you want to go to that City a
[15:41] few days later so you miss that holiday
[15:44] most hostels also have different types
[15:46] of rooms available so usually there's
[15:48] like a mixed dorm option and then rooms
[15:51] that have only men or only women larger
[15:53] dorms with more people in them will also
[15:55] typically be cheaper than dorms with
[15:57] only a few people but really depends on
[15:59] what kind of environment you want and
[16:02] also what kind of hostel some of them
[16:03] only have certain options some of them
[16:05] don't have mixed options every hostel is
[16:07] different also private rooms definitely
[16:09] the most expensive options but if you're
[16:11] kind of feeling a little burnt out and
[16:13] you want some time not around people
[16:16] then I would recommend booking a private
[16:18] room just so that you can have a chance
[16:20] to be alone for a few days I would also
[16:23] recommend trying to find a hostel that
[16:25] has some kind of included breakfast some
[16:28] are are literally just like bread and
[16:30] jam and some are definitely more of like
[16:32] a full continental breakfast kind of
[16:34] thing sometimes they're for free and
[16:36] sometimes you have to pay like a couple
[16:38] Euros to get it but it's just one more
[16:40] meal that you don't have to find on your
[16:42] own so I would highly recommend doing
[16:44] that as far as public transportation
[16:46] goes use it use public transportation
[16:49] okay I can't recommend it enough getting
[16:52] taxis or Ubers depending on the country
[16:54] will be so much more expensive and time
[16:56] consuming because roads are not NE
[16:58] necessarily built solely for car travel
[17:01] like in the US however I will say in
[17:04] Poland I got like five or six taxis and
[17:07] Ubers for a total of $25 we found out
[17:09] they were so cheap and we were like
[17:11] we're just going to use it definitely
[17:12] look but use public transportation you
[17:15] can buy a day pass or a multi-day pass
[17:17] depending on how long you're going to be
[17:19] in the city but use it when walking
[17:22] would be too far most of the time you
[17:24] can just walk everything in European
[17:27] cities are pretty close together and
[17:29] only taxi and Uber when public
[17:30] transportation won't get you within
[17:32] walking distance of the attraction you
[17:34] want to see there are way more taxis and
[17:37] uers in like the central part of the
[17:38] city so if you're trying to see
[17:39] something that's kind of outside the
[17:41] city and trains and public
[17:42] transportation won't get you within
[17:44] walking distance of it just get the Uber
[17:47] from the bigger city because if you get
[17:49] a train as far out as you can you're
[17:51] much less likely to have an abundance of
[17:53] Ubers there available this is on a
[17:55] different trip actually but me and my
[17:56] friend Ashley we were doing a Belgium
[17:59] and Amsterdam trip and we wanted to see
[18:02] something that was like outside Brussels
[18:05] and so we just got an Uber from Brussels
[18:07] all the way there because it was way
[18:10] easier than getting a train out or
[18:12] getting a public transportation out and
[18:14] then trying to walk or find an Uber and
[18:16] also there are plenty of taxis at the
[18:19] big attraction so coming back is not
[18:21] that hard either and I say this
[18:24] cautiously and I don't recommend it but
[18:27] in northern Europe Denmark and Germany
[18:30] especially you may be able to use public
[18:32] transportation without ever buying a
[18:35] ticket there's not a lot of checks in
[18:38] place like you don't have to buy a
[18:39] ticket and then like scan the ticket in
[18:40] order to get through France that's very
[18:42] heavy you have to go through like six
[18:43] different Securities before you can get
[18:45] on a train but northern Europe They
[18:47] Don't Really check so much so I'm not
[18:50] saying I recommend it or you should do
[18:53] it but just it's more feasible southern
[18:56] Europe they will check every single time
[18:57] you won't be able to get through there
[18:59] will be security northern Europe it
[19:01] might be feasible but I don't recommend
[19:02] it just so you know trams are also
[19:04] trickier than Subways or underground
[19:08] public transportation sometimes you have
[19:10] to buy a ticket after you bored instead
[19:12] of before and there are people who will
[19:14] make you pay a big fine if they catch
[19:17] you on a tram and you have not bought a
[19:18] ticket yet that happened to us in
[19:20] Budapest and we had to pay like a $36
[19:23] fine even though we had literally just
[19:26] gotten on the tram so also keep keep
[19:29] that in mind that above ground public
[19:31] transportation is way more riskier I
[19:34] would say than Subways or underground
[19:36] transportation in terms of figuring out
[19:40] how to pay for them when it's not clear
[19:42] as far as excursions or getting to
[19:44] tourist destinations or museums stuff
[19:48] like that there are some days when we
[19:50] would roll into a country and have no
[19:52] idea what we were doing not a clue
[19:54] hadn't planned anything we hadn't even
[19:56] looked anything up but we knew we wanted
[19:58] to go to the city use Google Maps you
[20:00] can search a city and then search
[20:03] attractions and so they'll all pop up
[20:05] and then so you can look at all the
[20:06] different attractions save any that
[20:08] you're interested in even remotely
[20:10] interested into a Google Maps list so
[20:13] that later when you're going back and
[20:15] looking at oh what should we do in the
[20:16] city today you have a map of like how
[20:19] far apart all the different attractions
[20:20] are so you can like say oh there's like
[20:22] four different things we want to do and
[20:24] they're on this side of the city let's
[20:25] go over there hit all those so we don't
[20:27] have to walk back and fourth across the
[20:29] city a bunch of times it worked very
[20:32] well for us every single time I've ever
[20:34] used that method it's worked really well
[20:36] keep in mind that if there are certain
[20:38] things that you want to hit like an
[20:41] Frank house that are going to be really
[20:42] busy make sure to get those booked ahead
[20:46] of time those tickets booked ahead of
[20:47] time as early as you know when and where
[20:50] you're going to be there because it
[20:53] really sucks to miss an opportunity to
[20:55] do something cuz you're only there for a
[20:57] couple days and the tickets are booked
[20:59] for those few days so make sure that if
[21:02] there is a bigger attraction that you
[21:03] want to see get those booked as soon as
[21:06] you know when you're going to be in that
[21:08] place you can also use apps like get
[21:10] your guide to book more of a tour of
[21:13] something and some of them are really
[21:15] nice and helpful and not too expensive
[21:17] but on the whole I would say it's
[21:20] probably much cheaper to do whatever
[21:24] that t was planning to do on your own it
[21:27] totally depends some of them are are
[21:28] offering more of an experience that you
[21:30] can't do on your own I would say try and
[21:33] do it on your own try to plan it on your
[21:35] own first and then if you're like n this
[21:37] is too complicated the transportation
[21:40] from one place to the next because it's
[21:42] so
[21:43] rural then I would say use get your
[21:45] guide or some other app like that try to
[21:47] figure it out on your own first if
[21:49] you're trying to save money food is a
[21:51] big one very important do not go out for
[21:54] every meal it's so expensive if you have
[21:56] a massive budget go for it that sounds
[21:59] fantastic but most people are probably
[22:01] not backpacking Europe I'm not on a
[22:04] budget again try to get hostels that
[22:06] have breakfast it's one more meal you
[22:07] don't have to find or you can get coffee
[22:09] in a pastry at a bakery lots of bakeries
[22:12] everywhere in Europe and usually they're
[22:14] not expensive so that's a good one to
[22:17] use we actually carried around a mini
[22:19] grocery bag like it was this little
[22:22] grocery bag and we kept restocking it
[22:25] with bread cheese and meat usually like
[22:28] salami or something like that and that
[22:30] was our lunch every day that was our
[22:32] lunch we would just have a picnic lunch
[22:34] and we would just go to grocery store
[22:35] and refill those things up we also would
[22:37] get like carrots or some kind of
[22:39] vegetable that was easy just so that we
[22:41] could have some nutrition you know
[22:43] because that's also important to
[22:45] remember that you actually do need to
[22:47] feed your body at least decently to make
[22:50] sure that you can keep up the pace of
[22:52] backpacking so make sure to actually get
[22:55] some nutritious food in there yeah we
[22:57] just refilled that at a grocery store
[22:59] every time and we just carry that little
[23:00] brown bag around with us and you save a
[23:02] lot of money that way so that was
[23:03] breakfast at hostels picnic lunches out
[23:07] wherever we were and then we usually
[23:10] went out for dinner I would say if you
[23:12] want to experience a local Cuisine or
[23:14] you have a little bit of a looser budget
[23:16] not even that much because again we were
[23:18] only putting on one meal and that wasn't
[23:20] like an expensive meal either we weren't
[23:22] going to the expensive restaurants we
[23:24] weren't getting appetizers or anything
[23:25] like that right pretty much just an
[23:28] entree maybe a drink or two that's what
[23:30] I would recommend because then you
[23:31] experience more of the local Cuisine
[23:33] then you can also get more of like a
[23:35] fulfilling meal however if you're on a
[23:37] really tight budget or you're going for
[23:39] a long period of time then I would say
[23:42] you can also go pick up some food at a
[23:45] grocery store and then make it at your
[23:47] hostel pretty much all hostels have some
[23:49] kind of kitchen with basic kitchen
[23:52] utensils or microwave or something like
[23:55] that get some basic groceries make your
[23:57] dinner at the hostel have have leftovers
[23:59] or you can go out to eat one night but
[24:01] have leftovers and have those leftovers
[24:03] the next night cuz you can put your
[24:05] stuff marked in a tupperware in the
[24:08] hostle fridge and then you can have that
[24:10] for your next night as far as souvenirs
[24:12] go you can check in my either budget
[24:14] video or my souvenirs video but I mostly
[24:19] bought postcards and pins for my
[24:21] backpack while I was backpacking cuz you
[24:23] don't have a lot of space when you're
[24:25] backpacking to buy big souvenirs I did
[24:27] ahead of time leave Extra Space when I
[24:30] was packing my backpacks so that I could
[24:33] buy a sweatshirt I bought a sweatshirt
[24:35] in Venice or I actually bought hiking
[24:37] boots in Iceland which are the shoes I
[24:39] ended up wearing home and I just stuffed
[24:41] my extra pair of shoes in my backpack
[24:43] but because I had that extra bit of
[24:45] space I was able to do that make sure
[24:47] you have a little extra space in your
[24:49] backpack doesn't have to be a lot
[24:51] especially if you're someone you know
[24:52] who are going to want to buy souvenirs
[24:54] because most of my souvenirs were
[24:55] postcards they're really easy to pack
[24:57] they're flat I just slid them in my
[24:59] laptop sleeve so that they would stay
[25:01] flat and yeah it was pretty easy that's
[25:04] what most of my souvenirs were making
[25:06] friends also depends on whether you're
[25:07] alone or you're backpacking with
[25:09] somebody obviously if you're backpacking
[25:11] with a friend already you don't
[25:13] necessarily may feel the need to
[25:15] actively make friends as much however we
[25:18] still made friends we still got to
[25:20] talking to people who are in your hostel
[25:22] room you can go eat breakfast with
[25:24] somebody in your hostel most hostels
[25:26] also have events planned planed during
[25:28] the evenings so go to those just hang
[25:31] out in the uh Lounge common space area
[25:34] and strike up a conversation with
[25:35] someone you can talk to the people who
[25:37] are in your dorm room and just say hey
[25:40] what are you doing tomorrow do you want
[25:41] to go do something together it's can be
[25:43] scary and I'm an introvert honestly so
[25:46] doing that
[25:48] definitely takes more effort for me than
[25:51] it might take other people but if I can
[25:55] make friends while backpacking in hostil
[25:58] then you can do it because that is
[26:00] something that's definitely harder for
[26:01] me to do you don't have to make friends
[26:03] and do something with you can you can do
[26:05] everything alone if you want to but it's
[26:07] also a really cool way to make new
[26:09] friends and meet people and have
[26:11] different experiences because somebody
[26:13] you meet might be doing something that
[26:14] you hadn't even thought of that you
[26:17] should do and you're like wow that
[26:18] sounds amazing let's go do that can I
[26:20] join you and that starts a whole
[26:21] friendship so it just depends on how you
[26:24] want your backpacking experience to be
[26:26] last but not least my biggest tip that I
[26:30] actually learned from semester at C
[26:32] which was right before I backpacked be
[26:36] flexible be flexible with everything you
[26:39] do be flexible because things will not
[26:43] go according to plan that's just that's
[26:45] just the reality of travel especially
[26:47] but also backpacking random things will
[26:49] happen trains will get delayed hoses
[26:51] won't work out the museum you wanted to
[26:54] see will be closed on the one day you're
[26:56] available you'll be stranded at an
[26:57] abandoned train station in the middle of
[27:00] the night which happened more times than
[27:02] you would care to believe okay it it
[27:05] happens a lot and that's okay it
[27:08] honestly depends just on your attitude
[27:10] if you laugh along with it and just
[27:13] laugh at how unbelievably terrible your
[27:16] luck is and you laugh instead of cry the
[27:19] situation is so much better and so much
[27:21] funnier so things will happen but on the
[27:23] other hand things will just randomly
[27:25] work out the day you decide to go to
[27:27] them Muse will be the one day they have
[27:29] free entry or you'll somehow be grouped
[27:31] in with a school group and be given a
[27:33] free ticket that also happened to us in
[27:35] Poland or the hostel will have such a
[27:37] good breakfast that you will be able to
[27:39] make some sandwiches for lunch that
[27:41] happened to us in Denmark it just
[27:43] depends um how you treat everything your
[27:46] attitude about everything changes the
[27:48] perspective of everything and everyone
[27:50] around you so if you go in with a
[27:53] light-hearted attitude and think wow
[27:55] that sucked well that's
[27:58] hilarious everything is so much more
[28:00] enjoyable and obviously it's not
[28:03] possible to be happy all the time when
[28:04] traveling especially when you're
[28:05] traveling for a long periods of times
[28:07] things will eventually run off a cliff
[28:10] right things will eventually just get
[28:13] bad something bad will happen something
[28:15] will happen at a home that you're sad
[28:16] you have to miss a situation will happen
[28:19] with people or just with what you were
[28:20] trying to do and it won't work out and
[28:22] that'll suck it's kind of inevitable but
[28:25] you kind of have to learn to roll with
[28:26] the punches otherwise it's not not going
[28:28] to be as much of an enjoyable trip that
[28:30] is truly my biggest tip that I can give
[28:32] you things will won't work out but on
[28:34] the other hand things will surprisingly
[28:37] work out roll with the punches be
[28:39] flexible that's everything I have if I
[28:41] think of anything or if any of you have
[28:43] any questions or things I didn't mention
[28:47] and things I should talk about leave me
[28:49] a comment down below because I might
[28:51] make a second video If there are a whole
[28:53] bunch of other things that I didn't
[28:55] think of cuz I think this video is
[28:57] already probably going to be pretty long
[28:59] even though I know I've been talking
[29:01] very fast so leave a comment if you have
[29:04] any questions or anything else I should
[29:06] mention or bring up or if you have any
[29:08] other backpacking video ideas that I
[29:10] should do just let me know because I'm
[29:12] always interested in other video ideas
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