While everybody else is out ushering the new year, I’m just gonna stay at home to mend my broken heart (it’s not broken anymore!). Wait, before you say anything else, that amount excludes the expenses. (food, food, food, shopping). There were 3 of us so (amount/3).

We decided to go to Europe in June, started booking for what’s necessary in late September, finalised everything by October and off we went to Europe in November. We took overnight trains (point to point ticket is much cheaper than the rail passes) to the next city (saved a lot on hotel) and we weren’t concerned about having a really good hotel too. We took the cheapest train ticket so we had to sit and sleep at the same time. If you’re lucky, they might give you a cabin that has the bunk bed. We were lucky once.

For hotels, decent was fine and…