One night I just said ‘today’s the day’ and we packed everything we had into our little hatchback, quit our jobs and took what little savings we had down to Dover without even booking a ferry”.
A Manchester woman has revealed how she walked out on her life in the UK to travel the world despite having no plans and very little money - and how she managed to travel across 16 countries over 3 years on a budget of £5 per day.
Erica, of Collyhurst, and Terry arrived in France at 4am the same night without having booked a hotel, and spent the next 2 months driving 5,500 miles before scrapping their car in Athens - all while limiting themselves to spending £5 per day. "When we scrapped our car we gave anything we couldn’t carry to a homeless guy. We hopped on a train to an airport with our lives in our backpacks”.
The couple also visited France, Monaco, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Turkey. "In other countries we found rooms or hostels for £5 a day and would eat street food. It would be cheaper if we just turned up instead of booking anywhere. Sometimes we would not spend anything and then we would treat ourselves to a £25 hotel which felt like the most luxurious thing ever. In total our output was around £5 a day."
"I was painting all the nooks and crannies where tourists don’t usually go and it made me feel like I was revisiting everywhere I’d been. Each painting tells a story and holds a fond memory for me”.
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