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Monday, February 14, 2022

Junk food or traveling on a minimal budget

February 14, 2022
    No wonder they say that if a person really wants something, he will do everything for this. The rest of the options are just excuses. Nowadays, going on a trip without having the proper funds is quite realistic. Moreover, there are unexpected life hacks on how to survive. And sometimes survive with special comfort in the most expensive countries in the world.Today we decided to dwell on a few of them and get your opinion on this matter. After all, stereotypes in our minds sometimes close in front of us the very doors behind which there is a dream.
junk food travel


    So, how can you save on trips without having money or counting on minimal costs. The first rule of budget travelers is to prepare in advance. In one of the articles we wrote about travel on credit. In this case, special preparation is not necessary, but if not immediately, but the funds will be spent. Therefore, you should pay attention to the resources where information is provided on preferential flights. You may have to pay some amount here. To save time and find a flight that will cost you several times cheaper. However, there are a number of bloggers and travel enthusiasts who share their experiences for a regular subscription or repost.
    In addition to good advice from experienced people, you can save a certain amount if you decide to travel in a rented car. Of course, car rental is not cheap, and you can hitchhike to travel long distances. But for those who cannot deny themselves independence, you can use the car rental aggregator. This will reduce the price by thirty forty percent, as well as purchase profitable insurance that will take care of the safety of you and your wallet in the event of an accident. By the way, earlier booking a car will allow you to choose the desired car.

Try to avoid additional paid options by downloading maps of the area in advance.

    And having planned a trip and knowing the distances covered, it will be easier for you to decide on the choice of cars. If you need to travel far, then it is better to take a car with the condition of unlimited mileage, since surcharges for kilometers in excess of the daily limit can make travel much more expensive. We also recommend that you familiarize yourself with the rental rules and traffic rules of the country you are visiting. For fines in their size can quickly nullify your savings. No matter how trite it may sound, but knowledge in this case will help you a lot.

In a bit of contrast, after the desire to save on car rentals, we turn to the global savings on food on a trip.

    However, food makes up a huge percentage of the cost of any trip. Where it is impossible to take enough food with you, the method chosen by the freegans has become popular. Namely, food from the garbage. Of course, it is difficult for the Russian contingent to adequately perceive this way of eating. Since our dumps are somewhat different from foreign ones. But the very possibility of not buying food on a trip will save you a lot of money.For those who dare to live in another country, you can find detailed instructions on where you can and where you do not need to take food in different countries. It should be mentioned that the delay, including for several hours or goods with a broken wrapper, are disposed of in special packaging and placed in clean plastic bags. Sometimes displayed in boxes. So, with proper preparation, you will already know where, how and when to get the food you need. You can even create a menu.
    If you still disdain to eat from the garbage, then on the same resources you can find out where in the backyard of restaurants you can talk with chefs and ask for food from them. And do not forget about the discount on cooking in the evening. For those who prefer hostels and camps to hotels, there is an option to get "free food". This is what previous travelers did not have time or did not want to eat. For the most part, these are pasta and long-term stored products. What you usually take with you on a trip. Here you can leave your surplus, if any.

Another point of a budget trip is the use of services that provide cashback.

    It's nice when a certain percentage of the funds used will return. Let's go over other points that allow you to save money. This is using free wifi. Now almost everywhere there is this opportunity. Hotels, cafes, shopping centers and other public places provide this service. A local SIM card is often more profitable than universal roaming, and a tourist card, sometimes free, will give good discounts. For excursions, too, it is not always necessary to pay. Try looking for free options. Often there are sightseeing tours for transit passengers.Therefore, for sociable travelers, it is worth asking about this guest network. This is a real opportunity to make your dream come true for less money. And going on a trip for a long time, you can stay at the hotel for a couple of days in order to find cheaper accommodation on the spot. Find out about discounts for long stays - since you have decided to stay for more days, why not pay less for it. Many recommend in this case to take apartments.
    Returning to the implementation of their own desires, we can summarize. The impossible may well become reality. If you approach the realization of the aspiration wisely and use the amazing amount of information available in our time. Your dreams are in your hands. As well as the safety of your funds. Save what you can just by spending a little time.

How to get free products in Europe?

February 14, 2022
    I have already raised the issue of food while traveling and that this item always takes up a large part of the expenses. On a trip to Scandinavia, spending on food amounted to the same amount as for an overnight stay. At the same time, for the first ten days, I lived exclusively on cereals for breakfast, muesli bars for lunch, and canned food for dinner. On any trip, the most economical option is to buy food in stores and then cook them in a hostel or on a burner. But I also heard about cases with free delivery of food. From discarded by expiration date and removed from garbage cans near supermarkets, to charitable organizations.
free food travel


    In a hostel in Oslo in the same room with me was a Russian man Igor, who went to Norway to work. In order to somehow adapt to the difficult conditions in the new environment in one of the most expensive countries in the world, he tries to look for various ways of social assistance from charitable organizations. He was just about to visit one of these offices the next day, and I immediately agreed to keep him company.According to him, only a passport was needed with him. I did not have any urgent need for humanitarian assistance, as I call it, but curiosity and new experience made me go without hesitation. At the entrance, we were asked if we were the first time, and after that we took a ticket from the electronic queue machine. At that time we were the only visitors. We were asked to wait, and we, not embarrassed at all, began to argue in a loud voice how ethical it is in our situation to take away food, perhaps from very poor people who really need it. Then a girl came up to us and in pure Russian invited us to follow her.
    Showing our ordinary passports, we were told that they did not provide assistance to tourists and shrugged. But we were able to easily convince that the prices in Norway are terrible, I generally travel by motorcycle and my food supplies have already come to an end, and Igor lives here and is trying to find a job, which is actually a big problem. Then the girl agreed to just give me one-time products, specifying that she would not give perishable ones, since I was on a motorcycle. And Igor wrote in a journal and promised support in the future, not only with products. In general, according to the passport, products can be received once a month.We spent almost half an hour in communication with the girl, and during this time people came, received food and left. Among them were a young girl, and a guy of about thirty, and a granny.Igor, like everyone else, was given two bags of food, and I was given one. By that time, thermoses with tea / coffee and buns were still put up in the lobby. In Norway, one such bun as on a tray costs 15-20 kroons in a regular supermarket. That is about 150 rubles for our money. So we also had breakfast.Such an organization is not alone, and Igor was going to go intelligence then to others. You can also find clothes and household appliances. He also talked about cases when he was walking down the street, and food was handed out there just like that. Perhaps this is due to the fact that at first glance there are more refugees in the city than indigenous people, otherwise for whom are these products distributed? To some extent, this looks unusual, but there are such organizations in Russia, so it would be strange to be surprised at such a social benefit, but in any case, it is much more developed there.
    At first, I was so excited about free products that I was going to do it all the way down the road. The girl even looked at the address of the Salvation Army office in Stockholm, and Igor advised that next time he should speak less, tell stories that I was looking for a job and in no case say that I am a simple tourist, but it’s better to pretend to be dumb or say, that my native language is Kabardino-Bulgarian :)
    However, I no longer went to the offices of this organization and did not deceive anyone. Some friends have generally condemned me, saying that I take food from the poor, although I do not think so. But in any case, this is a good example of the fact that when you find yourself in a difficult situation abroad and even in Russia, there is a place where you can turn, where people can help at the first stage and even just give food.

Travel food

February 14, 2022

 

WHAT TO TAKE FOR A SNACK ON THE ROAD

    A trip to the sea, vacation, excursions with the whole family requires responsible preparation. Regardless of whether it is a trip by car, train, bus, you need to decide what to take with you for a snack on the road. The list of good foods or dishes depends on whether long or short trips are planned. We offer basic rules, useful tips, detailed lists. We hope the article will be useful and interesting.
    The best recipe for a successful trip is car rental - Kayak. So it will be possible not to worry about the technical part, serviceability and insurance.
    When figuring out what to take on the road with small children, do not forget about disinfection. In particular, you need to take care of disinfecting all surfaces and, after all walks, treat the hands of the crumbs to avoid the negative effects of bacteria.
    What to take on a long trip by car? It is useful to figure out what to take with you on the road from food if you are planning long trips. When adults are traveling on their own, you can get by with a minimum set, but if this is a family trip with children, there are a number of good rules. You can cook the following dishes on the road:
    -Pasta. They should be without cheese, meat, minced meat, butter, as this shortens the shelf life. 
    -Rolls. But not in the classical sense. Make good rolls with rice paper, thinly sliced ​​vegetables, other foods, but no fish or cheese. 
    -Muffins and toast. Suitable even with fillings, but not perishable, for example, with good jam or jam.
Travel food


If you are going to cook a hearty snack for a child on the road, it is better to use recipes from websites. It is desirable to take with you only useful simple products.
    Have no idea what food to take on the bus? It is advisable to choose light foods, as they do not cause digestive problems. In such situations, fruits and vegetables are perfect. It is worth choosing options where the peel is dense, for example, bananas, pears, apples, cucumbers. In addition, you can take good dried fruits, nuts. In addition, boiled eggs are useful, but it is important to boil them hard-boiled, they were with a whole shell. As for bread, it is recommended to replace it with crackers, bread with bran. Meat and hard cheese are good to choose in a vacuum. Moreover, it is necessary to eat food after opening, first of all, without leaving it for a long time.
    It is easy to cook boiled potatoes on the bus for a trip, it should be boiled in their uniforms. The fact is that even good foods cooked in water are considered perishable. There should be less crackers, chips, cookies and other similar food on the bus. Sweet tea, juice, coffee, soda should not be taken on the bus.

What to take on the road in the heat 

    During hot weather, food spoils much faster. In order not to remain hungry on the road, you should make room for the right snacks. It is important that food spoils slowly, for this it is worth providing appropriate storage. Bags can be replaced with paper or cloth, or you can use vacuum packaging on the way.
    Remember that the time that food is stored is short. Even in a thermal bag, it’s not worth keeping for more than one day. In terms of quantity, you are guided by how much to travel on the road. In general, it is not worth giving a child a lot of food, usually you don’t want to eat in the heat.Advice! Take with you on the road those foods and dishes that the children are already familiar with. And also do not take something that can quickly deteriorate, it will take up space.Try to prepare the right food with you on the road, especially if you have children with you. If you have to travel to several distant places, you need to consider storage conditions. It is rational to freeze some food with you on the road. If the products deteriorate, they must not be used. You need to carefully monitor the quality, eat only fresh products on the way. It is rational to look at sites with a recipe. There you can find many useful and easy-to-cook dishes to take with you on the road every day. Rent a car and go on an exciting journey, taking care of the right snacks.

Sunday, February 13, 2022

trip-travel the best roads

February 13, 2022

trip-travel the best roads of las vegas

Hey! I am talking about a ready-made travel route from Las Vegas by car for 5 days to the most interesting parks in Utah in the USA. It will be useful for those who have already been surprised by the Universe of Vegas and traveled from Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon, but again flew or came to Vegas to look at the best casinos on the Strip, visit various shows, and see the most interesting sights outside the city. In general, this article is for those who plan to continue their acquaintance with the United States in more depth.

And the best for this is a trip called The Mighty 5, which includes five national parks in Utah - Arches, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands and Capitol Reef. We will see them first of all, and we will also visit three more state parks that are located near Las Vegas. We ourselves have personally visited all these national parks, and I will share with you practical information about where to rent a car, how best to go, where to stay overnight and, most importantly, what to see in these parks.

Route from Las Vegas by car 

The Las Vegas Utah Parks Route is a five-day circular drive northeast of Vegas through Nevada and Utah. The trip program includes visits to the National Parks - Zion, Bryce, Arches, Canyonlands and Capitol Reef, as well as Dead Horse Point State Parks, Goblin Valley and Red Canyon.


Traveling along this route by car on your own, you will see the most important and interesting things in Utah: the best sunsets and sunrises, natural arches and hoods, high cliffs and deep canyons, take many beautiful photos and stay with unforgettable impressions from a trip to the southwestern United States .

When is the best time to go It is best to plan a trip from Las Vegas to national parks in the spring (April, May) or autumn (October, November) months. At this time of the year, it is not very hot during the day, and there are not as many tourists in the parks as in summer. You can also go in winter, for example on New Year's Eve. At the same time, in the mornings in parks located at an altitude above 2000 meters (Bryce, Canyonlands) it can be quite cool, so I recommend taking warm clothes with you.

Utah state parks 

We have traveled extensively in the US and seen the best parks along this route and we really liked them. So we can recommend this Canyon Country route to anyone who wants to see the most beautiful natural sights in the US Southwest and visit the extraordinarily picturesque parks of Utah.
Why are Utah's parks interesting? Firstly, we have already visited as many as 53 national parks in the USA, and still we think that Utah parks are the most delicious and unusual thing to eat in the States, especially for the first acquaintance with the nature of America. Secondly, there are other special parks in the USA, such as Yosemite in California or the Grand Canyon in Arizona, which can compete with them in beauty, but Utah's parks still win in fantastic and unusual. Scenic views evoke emotions that overflow!

Saturday, February 12, 2022

cross country road trip planner

February 12, 2022

5 travel apps for travelers on a budget

    If you ever get the chance, explore the world without plans. When you return, you will no longer be the same. Jack Kerouac's book On the Road captures the spirit of spontaneous travel—going where you like, when you like, and experiencing the world first hand. Exploring the globe can be liberating, character-building, and a fascinating world. Even more surprising: Today's traveler doesn't need to be incredibly wealthy to explore just about any country on Earth.However, traveling the world isn't free, so unless you're rich regardless, you'll need to shell out a penny or two on those trips abroad. But you have a tool that Kerouac never dreamed of: your mobile device. Whether it's a smartphone or tablet, connecting with friends, family, and apps can save you a lot of money. Let's take a look at five budget-stretching apps you should always take with you when you travel.
CONTENT 
1.Good translator 
2.Communication connection 
3.Asylum selector 
4.WiFi Master 
5.Multifunctional travel planning tool

Few things can make you feel more helpless in a foreign country than the inability to communicate. Improvised sign language only for you. Most language translation apps are much cheaper than printed phrasebooks and usually contain much more information. Each Lonely Planet phrasebook app is for one language and only costs $6. These handy tools draw on Lonely Planet's rich experience in the global travel market. Taking the time to memorize a few phrases will likely earn you points among the locals.For a cheaper app that translates voice to voice (you speak one language and it repeats itself in another), iTranslate is your best bet. If you don't mind seeing ads, iTranslate language titles are free, or you can upgrade to an ad-free version for $1-$2. Jibbigo is another very highly rated translator, but it will cost you around $30 per language - not exactly budget-friendly, especially if you need multiple languages.Even if you use translators on the fly, you will still be good at remembering some important phrases. Considering how unstable some of the translation apps are, we know how to say "Sorry, I didn't mean to say that!" It can be useful.


tastiest road trip

February 12, 2022

The most delicious trip in 2021: the main gastronomic region of Europe has been identified


    They became Slovenia. The country received this title for its gastronomic opportunities and the development of an environmentally friendly approach to life, according to the Subtleties of Tourism portal. The culinary traditions of Slovenia are based on the principle “From the garden to the table”, that is, they encourage the use of natural products. There are strong relationships between local producers and chefs. In addition, the country's Tourism Board began to develop the Slovenian Green Cuisine brand. This culinary program is part of the country's overall tourism vision of sustainable travel.I have never been to wine and gastronomic tours before. Although some hints in our travels on them were constantly. If Anton and I found ourselves in any wine region, we always tried local wines, and when we had the opportunity, we would definitely visit wine cellars. So it was with us in Italy, Moldova, Hungary, Romania, Georgia, in Odessa, after all. When we got to Argentina, we even made a special trip to the famous Cuyo wine region to drive around its wineries, look at the vineyards and learn how the wine that is so popular in our country is made.
    As for gastronomy, I can honestly tell you here: we have not yet had a single country, not a single city where we have not tried something local, special, with a typical flavor. If it was, of course. So, when I was invited to take part in a full-fledged wine and gastronomic tour around the Krasnodar Territory, I decided that this was a sign. A sign to finally and completely reveal this topic for yourself. Of course, as usual, in my first topical note, I will show you photos of the places we visited in three full days. But in addition, I will also tell you about what they are and how such tours proceed.


Friday, February 11, 2022

travel safe pr

February 11, 2022

How to travel safely



1. Learn common scams 

    Wherever you go, there will always be people who want to cash in on you. If you're lucky, you'll crack them right away. But there are a bunch of professional scammers that are not so easy to recognize.

2. Write down the emergency numbers 

If something bad happens, you may not have time to look up the number of the local police, ambulance, or embassy in your country. Write this information down ahead of time and create an emergency plan. Save all this on your phone, and also write it down on paper in case something happens to the phone.

3. Protect your valuables

 It is better not to take valuable things on the road. But there is always something valuable, without which there is no way to travel - for example, an expensive camera. Minimize the risk of theft. Know that most bags are not safe. You might think that a closed bag is enough protection against a thief, and then doze off and wake up with a hole in it. If you do not have a special bag with cut protection, its fabric can be ripped open. Most zippers can be opened with a sharp object such as a pen.

4. Buy insurance

5. Ask locals for advice 

If you want to know which area is safe, ask a local. Most of the locals are friendly and will warn you of dangerous areas.

6. Email your itinerary to friends and family

Approve the itinerary and send it to friends and family. Make sure they get it. Then periodically write to them where you are. Be sure to tell them when you return. If several days have passed since the date of the expected return, they should call the police or the embassy to start looking for you.

7. Don't Share Information 

Too Much with Strangers If you want to share your itinerary with the general public, such as posting on Facebook, remember that this is a good way to keep track of your movements. Also, don't share travel details too much with people you've just met or where you'll be staying.

8. Dress smart Don't dress like a tourist. 

The more authentic you look, the less attention you will attract. Wearing the right clothes is also a sign of respect. In many Islamic countries, there are a number of strict regulations on how to dress. In conservative countries, it is safer to dress more discreetly.

9. Don't skimp on security

 If you have little money, you will want to save more on housing, flights, entertainment. But it is important to know that this is not always the safest way to travel. Cheap hostels are not always safe. Some of them do not have locks on the doors. Budget flights often take place in the middle of the night. This is usually not the best time to hail a taxi in a dangerous city.

10. Tie yourself to a bag 

Quick thefts usually happen because the thief can do it quickly and easily. Therefore, any obstacles to the theft usually remove the risk that it will happen at all. If you can tie your backpack to something immovable in a way that makes it noticeable, thieves will know better than to mess with you. An effective way is to use a carabiner or ordinary rope around the leg or chair.

11. Don't use back pockets 

This is the first place pickpockets check. If you are used to putting money there, get out of the habit. Stealing something from the front pockets is much more difficult. If you're really worried about money or are planning a trip to a city that is infested with pickpockets, you can try the money belt.

12. Travel in company 

The more people around you, the more control over valuables and legs ready to chase thieves. The group intimidates scammers - their chances of profiting in this case are small. If you are traveling alone, consider making new friends and traveling together. Staying in hostels is a great way to make friends.

13. Take a first aid kit 

Take medicine for cuts, sprains, stomach and burns with you. You can add painkillers, antiallergic tablets, plasters, antibiotics to the first aid kit.

14. Be aware of the risks 

If you want to travel, you cannot avoid risks. Risk is an integral part of the adventure. But risks can be controlled. The news often shows countries as far less safe than they really are.

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