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Sharing from many backpacking travelers, Europe still is their favorite backpacking destination in the world. Couple of reasons because Europe backpacking travel is still the most picked is because you can experience many countries and cultures in a single trip as each of them is connected on land, transportation fares are not expansive, accommodations are widely available with different budget. Natural scenery, arts, cultures, building and people are so colorful which you will not find it boring going over and over again. Many people asking around all sort of questions on how to have their very first Europe backpacking travel experience. Actually with current internet resourceful information, you can easily solve all these questions. However, in order to get you up to speed, here is an one stop Europe backpacking travel tips to you. 1. Visa It is pretty simple to get visa for mostly all Europe countries, just go to their website get all directions on how to apply the visa, if you have doubts on the procedures, just drop them an email and usually they will get back to you very soon. 2. Accommodations If it is in peak travel season in Europe, it is advice to book advance on your hotel / hostel, if it is low season it is ok to search it when you are there. You can print out the hostel information that you booked for handy access. backpackeurope.com is an good choice for you to choose what place to stay, they charge by 3% service charge which already included into your room rate. 3. Transportation Eurostar.com is the most welcome transport which links up with Paris, Brusselsk main city, one way takes you about 3 hours. It is the express train across the whole Europe countries. Airplane is another option and sometimes it will be cheaper than taking Eurostar. There are some famous budget airline like Easyjet, Ryanair, virgin air, Air Berlin, Low Fare Jet, Flyfi.net and many mores. The ticket price is auto floating, you need to compare it from time to time. There is inter countries bus services like Euroline also can take you to Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and many other main cities. It is the cheapest transportation option, just it takes most of travel time, but it actually is an perfect option for you to travel inter countries during night journey so you can save cost on transportation as well as 1 night of accommodation fee. 4. Currency It is advice to bring along your credit card and with some small amount of cash, the is the most save approach, since almost all Europe cities merchants accept credit card like transportation, hotels, restaurant, sight seeing places. If it is short of cash, you can always draw from bank with your credit card or debit card. This will lower your risk of being robbed. If you do not have credit card, traveler check will be a better option as compare to cash, American Express and Thomas cook have the most branches in Europe, easy access and simple process to trade or exchange your traveler checks. For currency exchange, Mark&Spencer is the best offer rate currency changer in UK, no service charge. 5. Communications Mobile communication is common in Europe, any phone in any Europe countries can roam to any countries, but the price is a bit high, so unless it is necessary, else just get a phone card will do. Internet communication is another good option, many hostel provide free internet services, if no, you can try to check out the internet cafe along the tourist areas, they charge like $1.0 Europe for an hour. 6. Electricity and Power Plug It is much simple as compare to 5-10 years ago, now you can simply get any electronics devices and it can work in Europe since all the digital travel gadgets has auto switch power adaptor, what you need maybe just a universal traveler plug adapter which cost less than $3 Euro. 7. Tourist Sight Seeing Spots There are endless places and information available in the Internet, just type and brose what and where you want to go in any search engine, or grab a travel guide books like lonelyplanet, you will bunch or tons of information. 8. Map All tourist center in Europe countries has free maps, but if you would like to get a map prior your trip for better understanding and planning, you can try free online map like MapQuest, if still not satisfy you can get travel guides with map shown. 9. Language English is still the most widely used language especially among the younger generation, however if you are traveling in non-tourist famous places, you might caught in trouble in communicating with locals. No worries, just use your pen and paper to draw or point at map, the local resident sure will help you, as mostly they are very nice people. 10. Safety No matter where do you travel, there are still some risk, all you need to do is to be more careful while traveling out there. Remember to do all safety pre-work like double photo copy your passport, keep important document in safety box, cover up your backpack and lock it, do show off your money in crowded places while buying something, break your money and keep in different places, try to bargain more with the sellers as they usually will try to sell you higher price. No worries, as overall Europe is a very safe place for backpack traveling as compare to many countries in the world. Hope that these 10 easy step will help to you start planning your 1st Europe Backpack travel. |
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