Dispatches
Long walks, short budgets, real notes
What the trip actually felt like — the delays, the detours and the meals worth remembering.
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We write after the trip, when the nice memories and the bad buses have balanced out.
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12Countries planned
84Trips designed
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Good to knowCommon questions
Do you travel on a budget?
Almost always — the numbers in the posts are what the trip actually cost.
How long do you stay?
Enough to see the morning and the evening: usually four to seven nights per base.
Do you accept press trips?
No — everything here is paid for independently, which is why the opinions hold.
Can I reuse your routes?
Yes, take them as they are; a credit back to the post is enough.
The processHow it works
- Four nights minimum per base
- Buses over taxis, always
- Off-season by default
- Every trip costed to the euro
- What we saved and how
- Splurges worth having
- Written the same evening
- Ticket stubs kept
- Maps marked up by hand
- Current trip posts weekly
- Archive by country
- RSS for the slow readers
Get inspiredWhere we go
Slow weeksLonger stays, lower prices
Night trainsSleep your way across
MarketsOpening hours and haggling
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