Europe on $5 a Day - stories?

mathmom
Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:29:13 +0000

I’d forgotten about eating in the Mensa. I’d say 70s budget travel was closer to $10 a day. I remember in Brittany traveling with two friends and bargaining a prix fixe meal down by skipping the first course. It was mussels which I love now, but didn’t then. I seem to remember we drank the wine though! I also remember saving breakfast rolls to each for lunch. I never stayed in hostels, mostly in budget hotels or bed and breakfasts. I liked the Italian bathrooms where the shower was just part of the bathroom and the whole room got wet.

When I lived in France I stayed at the apartment of the son of my French family. It was in an ancient building on the Ile St. Louis. The bathroom was down a flight of stairs then outdoors to the courtyard where it was a hole in the ground with two foot plates and newspaper for toilet paper. I avoided it as much as I could.