0711.18
19:13:14
Open Line Monday
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Well, since I don’t really know what to write about any more, and I’m going to Brussels for a week, I decided to put up a post soliciting questions from those of you that I don’t talk to more than once a week.
Just to take one out of play: Why am I going to Brussels? To observe the EU government. When it comes to the European Union, Brussels is like Washington, DC, but with more flags that vaguely resemble Indiana’s. I’ll write more about it when I get back.
And in case you thought you could really travel Europe on 20 dollars a day, here’s my projected budget for the next three weeks, with some of the more sensitive bits redacted:
Fire away.
Oh also apparently Thursday was Ben Lamb day at Harding. So talk about that too, but don’t look at me for any answers.
Just to take one out of play: Why am I going to Brussels? To observe the EU government. When it comes to the European Union, Brussels is like Washington, DC, but with more flags that vaguely resemble Indiana’s. I’ll write more about it when I get back.
And in case you thought you could really travel Europe on 20 dollars a day, here’s my projected budget for the next three weeks, with some of the more sensitive bits redacted:
Fire away.
Oh also apparently Thursday was Ben Lamb day at Harding. So talk about that too, but don’t look at me for any answers.
3 Comments
GMT-0500 22:45:45 0711.20 (Tue)
Actually, the info you’ve given us indicates that you’re spending about $35 a day, which isn’t that bad. Of course that’s less travel costs, and Christmas gifts (which aren’t really a part of “living in Europe for $xx per day”). And I don’t understand why the cost of train tickets are ‘sensitive information.’
My point, however, is that you probably can travel Europe for less than $20 a day, so long as you don’t factor in a $1500 or so round-trip airplane ticket. If you got a different cell phone carrier you could save on those cell phone minute recharges (I assume that’s what you mean by ‘recharge’). When I was in Turkey I got a satellite phone that works in almost every country but the US (go figure! It’s from a British company called Mobal, IIRC, very reliable at least in Turkey). It had no monthly fees; it was like $2 a minute to call anywhere in the world, but that’s all you really need, for emergency purposes &c. The phone company billed directly to my credit card. I did longer communications via email, and I don’t know about Italy, but in Turkey internet cafes were everywhere and cheap as dirt! Plus they gave me free tea. Mmm, tea.
When’s the next time you’ll be back in Zionsville?
GMT-0500 13:39:35 0711.23 (Fri)
Daily cost of living is 14 Euros? I guess I have to say I’m impressed.
GMT-0500 11:47:33 0711.27 (Tue)
I don’t know nothin about euros to dollars and budgets and what not, but i do know that i like that the picture changes when i click on the “It’s all about the Benjamins ” link at the top.