As Italy was the first stop of our long term travels, we realised very quickly that many things stretched our tight budget. We spent a total of around 10-11 days travelling from Milan (with a day trip to lake Como) to Bolzano, from Bolzano to Badia and finally Badia down to Venice. So one thing
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Milan to Bellagio: An incredible Lake Como day trip from Milan, Italy
After spending a few day exploring the effortlessly elegant city of Milan we were keen to get out of the crowded streets and into the surrounding countryside and searches for the best day trips from Milan. One of the places we had always dreamt of visiting was Lake Como and the pastel colours towns that
Helsinki in a day. Exploring the wonderful capital of Finland after a ferry ride from Estonia!
Whilst staying in the stunning fairytale city of Tallinn in Estonia we couldn’t not notice the city’s proximity to Helsinki, the Finnish capital. Knowing how expensive Scandinavia is compared to the region of Eastern Europe we had been travelling within for 4 months we took the opportunity to head over for the first time on
Backpacking Berlin: Awesome things to do in Berlin on a budget!
Berlin had been on our radar for as long as I can remember but for one reason or another we had never got around to visiting. We had plans whilst backpacking in Eastern Europe but got sidetracked somewhere around Lithuania! So when we headed home for a surprise Christmas visit we decided on our way
Gothenburg: The Understated Capital of Cool, Sweden. A Short Winter Visit!
Heading on home before Christmas we had flown into Oslo as it was a great cheap route from Asia. We took the chance to travel overland through Scandinavia and see some new places! Being the winter… and in Sweden, it was pretty cold! But we made the most of it and explored the wonderful and
Why Switzerland is our ultimate destination! …almost!
Switzerland…the place we had the most amazing and life changing trip to over the summer. We absolutely fell in love with it and even decided that one day we just have to go and live there for a while! We kicked ourselves as to why we hadn’t made the trip earlier and nothing could have
What to do in Bristol, the top attractions guide for a day in this lovely city!
So, we’ve been home from our European backpacking adventures for 3 months now before we set off on the 2nd of November for our Asia and Australian leg of our round the world tour. But we thought we would make the most of this time by seeing a little more of the UK. Having only
Getting lost on purpose in Venice and discovering Venetian life!
Venice is a crazy city, a lot like Tokyo in many way in the fact that it is utterly confusing and you will get lost no matter how much you fight it! But in this maze like city getting lost is when you really discover the true heart of this wonderful place. Along the narrow
Touring Venice by the water: The best way to see both the known and unknown areas of this unique city!
When visiting Venice what better way in there to explore this special, unique and crumbling old city than via the canals. When you tour the canals you get not only the chance to see Venice from another perspective and see all those amazing and well known sites once again. But from here you see how
Venice overnight and on a budget, what to see and do to make the most of a short visit!
Venice can be an expensive place and definitely isn’t somewhere on the usual backpacking route. But as we were in Italy and making our way over to Slovenia the easiest way was through Venice…so we decided why not stay for 1 night and make the most of the time we have in this wonderful city.
Hiking in the off season in Badia and discovering serenity!
When we decided to visit the Dolomites we had no real idea what or what we wouldn’t be able to do. It was a little bit of a last minute ideas to swing by this region as we travelled from Milan over to Venice. We had always wanted to visit and do the Via Ferrata
The fascinating Earth pyramids of Bolzano & The amazing Cable Car & hike to visit them!
After exploring the wonderful streets of Bolzano for a few days we happened across an amazing and intriguing image of what looked like some sort of alien formations. We figured such an impressive and strange natural phenomenon would be high up in the in accessible snow covered mountains. After inquiring as to where exactly we
Bolzano (Bozen) The Italian mountain city with Austrian flair – The fascinating culture of Sud Tyrol
We had been keen to head up to the very North of Italy for sometime, the mountainous region on the border of Austria had temped to its snow covered peaks and delightful villages. But little did we know that upon crossing over into the region of Sud Tyrol we would be entering into a majority
Lago di Carezza – The amazing Dolomites, Italy!
The Lago Di Carezza is a picture perfect alpine lagoon surrounded by the impressive dolomite mountains. It sits in a winding valley of dream like scenery only an hours bus ride from the German speaking, Italian city of Bolzano/ Bozen. Visiting this stunning setting was absolutely breath taking, seeing the Dolomites in all their jagged
CHEAP things to see and do in Milan…This so called Expensive city on a budget.
Milan might be seen as the expensive and extravagant fashion capital of the world, and its true, if you want it to be you can spend a fortune here on luxury accommodation, fine dining and custom made Italian clothing. But with our backpacks in tow we are most definitely in the budget basement camp…but fear