Around the EU on 20 Altarian dollars a day!

DdraigGoch

A Moneysaving challenge

I've just got married and we couldn't take a "proper" honeymoon just yet so I came up with the idea of visiting EVERY country in the EU and accession states and any other interested in joining or adjoining that we can nip through quickly, but, and here's the challenge bit, doing it on £100 per country for the two of us.

The rules are:

£100 sterling maximum spend on getting to and from each country visited, and all accommodation/food/etc therein
This £100 is for BOTH OF US, not each
No flying - so it has to be rail, coach, ferry etc
It has to be done in short breaks as we have to fit in school holiday times and visits to in-laws etc amongst all this prospective gadding about.

I don't think it can be done, but I'll give it a good try :rotfl:


any help and advice [apart from "give up now!" ] would be really welcome and much appreciated.

Thanks

DG

by the way - I'm "cheating" - he doesn't come on here [boo, hiss, :money:] teehee:D

dzug

Why no flying - that's going to bump up your cost considerably.

The trick is going to be to fit as many countries as possible into each short trip.

blue_haddock

Sorry but there is no way this would ever be feasable - £100 for both of you to travel is just too little. I think you'd struggle to get further than calais on your budget.

ceridwen

Altarian dollars? Whats that?

Best of luck whatever - good on ya not taking planes.

I shall be interested to see what you come up with. Okay - it sounds like a teensy bit of money - but then I personally regularly keel over backwards with astonishment at how little money some people aim to spend on feeding themselves!

alanrowell

ceridwen wrote: »

Altarian dollars? Whats that?

Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy - but I thought they were worthless these days, just like the USD

DdraigGoch

H2G2 = Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I agree on both points - it's an absurdly silly amount to work on and also we have agreed to visit/pass through as many countries as possible on each trip.

The principle of £100 per country for the both of us forces us to be a lot more inventive - perhaps to the extent of failing miserably, but at least we shall have had fun trying I shall report back as soon as we've done/planned anything and hope that other MS members can chip in and/or help out as we go along.

Thanks
DG

DdraigGoch

ps getting to Cardiff and London is going to be easy, it's Edinburgh, Belfast and Dublin ... but then I do have £500 to allocate to that lot and if I don't use it, I can put it towards "abroad" - whatever I save on one trip goes towards the others.

I fully intend taking sandwiches etc and sleeping on trains where possible, camping where not, any advice for an out of condition 50 year old?

budgetflyer

A central country like Germany means you can get a bus to lots of bordering countries quite easily.
When I was in Dusseldorf, the bus station had buses departing for all over Europe.

topmum

What about investing in a rail or bus pass? I know it would involve initial outlay, which I assume you can take some off the £100 for each country?

I am really excited to see if this pans out. If it does I may be following you lol.

Good luck :beer:

bingo_bango

~£20 to fly London - Dublin with Aer Lingus at the minute.

Belfast -> Dublin or vice versa is quite cheap. £12 return, or £8 one way by bus.

Return trip for 2 should cost just over £100, and that's two down!

Do it on a Saturday, and I may be able to take you halfway between the two. Might even buy you a sarnie!

Good luck!


Edit:

Just thinking. If you're in Wales, then you could try getting a friendly lorry driver to take you from Heysham to Warrenpoint on the Seatruck RORO ferry?

6 Miles from there to Newry, and you can get trains/buses galore to Belfast and Dublin there.

budgetflyer

This handy map shows you all the countries bordering Germany.