Tips for traveling

 Here are just a few tips for traveling. I am a big planner so I had everything set up like 3 months before we left. I planned our trip threw Workaway mainly just started saving my favorite profiles that interested me and then connected the dots to line them up. We stayed 2 weeks normally at each sometimes more or less depending on what the host could do. Every time we wished we could stay longer. I filled the in betweens with little weekend get aways so we could be tourists. I used Airbnb or homeaway and they were easy to find last minute or I had some already booked and paid for. Just make sure they are verified and a lot of them you paid half before hand and the other half when you met them to get the key. And then couchsurf is good too it was hard for us to find because we were two people but we did a few and it was great. Hostels also were a nice cheap route and you meet a lot of cool people that are also traveling. Some were hard to find we always googled directions when we could but usually had to ask for directions. But definitely recommend Workaway that was an awesome experience. If you want my contacts from the ones we did I can send them to you. 

 Workaway.info

Homeaway.com

Flipkey.com

Airbnb.com

As far as traveling and getting around we used a lot of trains and even did night trains so you get a recline seat and one night of sleep. We did buses a lot too they were always nice. Ride share is very popular and we saved a lot of money doing that. Flying is an option too once you are over there it's easy and cheap to jump around just be careful some airlines that are super cheap have other fees. Do not recommend Ryanair no matter how cheap they are. Just watch if they ask you to check in do online while you can if not and you miss the window they charge you a 50 Euro fee! One website I used the most is rome2rio.com it compares all ways of travel and shows cheapest fastest and has links to buy a ticket. 

When you are in a city use the metro and always look at the map at where you might be staying and make sure you are close to a metro. You can save if you buy the day tickets or you can get multi day tickets and a lot of them work for city buses too. You can buy the multi day tickets at any store that sells lottery tickets. Or at the touch screen machine in the metro. Do not buy them from a guy in the metro station. 

Rome2rio.com

Goeuro.com

Raileurope.com

Filxbus

Megabus

National express bus

Bla bla car get the app( have to change location in Apple Store settings) 

Skyscanner

I got an international SIM card and it worked great. Was nice to have when we needed to call our host to pick us up or got lost and didn't have wifi. 

Do you understand everything about the schengen zone? If you have any questions let me know and I am happy to share personal contacts from the people I met along the way.