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Whether you want to take a stand about the LGBT equality issue or you just want to see the festivities that happen during the Gay Pride parade, you can try and coincide your trip with the schedule of Pride events in the following European cities:
Tags: europestring, gay-pride
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The hamam (also spelled as hammam in Arabic) is the steam bath variant in Turkey. It involves relaxing in a room where hot dry air is allowed to continuously flow to allow bathers to perspire freely. If you can take it, you can leave this warm room and head for the hot room […]
Yes, do follow Mother Goose’s advise when you visit another foreign country. Of course, you need not follow Mother Goose to the letter by buying a fat pig (besides, even if you are willing to buy one, it will probably be out of your budget range).
What will you get out of it?
A trip to […]
As previously mentioned, I will be featuring destinations with the following criteria:
The names will be difficult to pronounce and/or spell. At least, for us, English-speakers. (inspired by a chapter in the book How Low Can You Go)
These destinations will be directly served by one of the many budget airlines in Europe
Your travel cost will be […]
Water is not FREE.
However, since Beer is the national drink (and they have the highest beer consumption per capita in the whole world!), it is (at least, compared to mineral water) the cheapest drink in the menu.
Want to know more about Czech Beer? Check here.
Tags: budget-travel, czech-beer, czech-republic, Eastern Europe
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Last September, St. Vitus Cathedral was given to the Church. After which, they started charging an entrance fee of 100CZK.
Last February 2007, however, the Supreme Court has decided to give St. Vitus back to the state. And you know what that means? Soon enough, visitors will be able to go inside St. Vitus […]
SkyExpress is Russia’s first budget airline which launched a couple of months ago. If you’d rather not risk land travel, you can fly around Russia on a budget via SkyExpress. At present, they serve flights to/from Moscow to/from Tumen, Kaliningrad, Murmansk, Rostov-on-Don and the Black Sea resort city of Sochi.
In comparison to Aeroflot, […]
Tired of seeing all those ++ signs after the numbers which are supposed to tell you how much you need to pay when in fact you will be paying a whole lot more?
++ signs means additional $$$ for taxes and charges. With taxes, you can actually already gauge how much will be added on top […]
For FREE, you can..
visit the National Museum (Narodni Museum) every first Monday of the month
check out the awe-inspiring view of Prague from the romantic Vysehrad Park
enjoy another great view from the Seminarska/Kinskeho Zahrada, a park on the hill above Mala Strana
yet another great view from Valdstejnska Zahrada, a park under the castle
visit the St. Ludmilla […]
Andorra used to be the budget skiing haven in Europe. When it became upmarket (improved facilities = higher prices), budget skiers looked (or, should I say skiied) elsewhere. As I previously mentioned, you can get cheap snow action in the Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Romania.
At that time, I forgot to mention Bulgaria (thanks […]
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