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Steph23

How Much It Costs to Travel in Italy* (& Other Handy Advice)

*Caveat: Italy is a very large country and costs can fluctuate dramatically based on where you go. Thus, although we saw more than just its capital city, it feels a bit disingenuous to claim that this is a comprehensive budget guide to all of Italy. Really, it’s more an...
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Steph28

Mini Budget Breakdown: Paris Travel Costs

When we set ourselves a daily budget of $100US for our RTW trip, we assumed that we’d come in well under this while traveling through Asia, but more than make up for that by steamrolling it while in Europe. I was certain that if London didn’t annihilate our budget,...
BudgetingFrance
Steph23

Mini Budget Breakdown: London Travel Costs

We knew that following our time in Asia that transitioning to Europe would be hard on our dwindling travel funds. Many people joked that we couldn’t have picked a worse destination than London as our entry point with respect to sticker shock. While it might be true that London...
BudgetingEnglandTips & Tricks
Steph38

How Much it Costs to Travel in SRI LANKA (& Other Handy Advice)

After years of fantasizing about Sri Lanka, there was a lot riding on our visit. In fact, given our past experiences with heightened expectations, my repeated mantra on the flight over was “Don’t expect too much. Sri Lanka probably won’t be that great.” I was certain my hopes and...
BudgetingSri LankaTips & Tricks
Steph32

How Much It Costs to Travel in LAOS (& Other Handy Advice)

It may have taken us 19 months of traveling, but we finally made it to Laos. Who can say why it took us so long to finally make it to this sleepy little country—we had heard such great things from so many people about it, and yet whenever logical...
BudgetingLaosTips & Tricks
Steph18

Mini Budget Breakdown: Malaysian Borneo Travel Costs

I’ve gone back and forth about whether to write a wrap-up post for our time in Borneo—normally I only do these for countries (which Borneo is not, made up as it is of three different countries) and much of what I have to say about Malaysian Borneo is true...
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Steph16

Mini Budget Breakdown: Brunei Travel Costs

Normally we call these posts “Everything You Wanted to Know About…”, understanding that, even with weeks (and sometimes, months) in a country, these titles are perhaps a shade hyperbolic. Probably a more accurate title would be “A Small But Important Fraction of What There is to Know About…”, but...
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Steph18

How Much it Costs to Travel in SINGAPORE (& Other Handy Advice)

As a Canadian, I’m always going to root for the underdog. On a map of the world, Singapore looks like little more than Malaysia’s toenail, so I probably should have felt some solidarity for this little sovereign nation all along. Alas, I can’t honestly say that before we left...
BudgetingSingaporeTips & Tricks
Steph47

How Much It Costs to Travel in TAIWAN (& Other Handy Advice)

After spending nearly two months in the Philippines, we were positive that we’d visited the friendliest island nation on the planet. There was no way we could possibly find a country to rival hospitality and warmth that Filipinos displayed, a place we’d never been but that immediately made us...
BudgetingTaiwanTips & Tricks
Steph78

How Much It Costs to Travel in THE PHILIPPINES (& Other Handy Advice)

Looking back, it's hard to believe that when we first set off with our bags strapped to our backs to travel the world that the Philippines wasn't a place we ever really intended to visit. We flew in on a gamble, thinking we'd spend three weeks and wound up...
BudgetingPhilippinesTips & Tricks
Steph20

How Much It Costs to Travel in CHINA (& Other Handy Advice)

It’s fair to say we had a lot of expectations when it came to China, and yet it somehow managed to shatter every single one of them. There’s so much to say about this huge monster of a country, and yet one thing is for certain: there’s no middle...
BudgetingChinaTips & Tricks
Steph11

How Much It Costs to Travel in HONG KONG (& Other Handy Advice)

After spending a heavily scheduled month in rule-oriented Japan, bursting into the teeming, chaotic streets of Hong Kong was a breath of fresh air. We were invigorated by the vague sense of lawlessness that infused the city (a sense certainly heightened by our previous destination – we have never...
BudgetingHong KongTips & Tricks
Steph36

How Much It Costs to Travel in JAPAN (& Other Handy Advice)

Japan was the first country we visited on our Big Trip, and what a way to kick off our adventure! While many long-term travelers opt to skip Japan for budgetary reasons, we found the country a perfect place to ease ourselves into Asia and learn to travel without training...
BudgetingJapanTips & Tricks