#72 Travelling While Budgeting

Travelling is meant to be fun.  It is also expensive and there are lots of things that can go wrong, where the costs go up a lot more than you expect.  I have been travelling my whole life.  My first overseas trip was with my parents when I was 4 years old.  As a grown up, I have gone overseas at least every second year, and sometimes multiple times in a year.  Then, the borders closed and we couldn't go anywhere.

This year travelling overseas was back, and then came planning and the costs in a post-pandemic world.  I hadn't been over to Europe in 5 years, and I really noticed how much more expensive everything was.  Food, petrol, even the flights over, transport.  Literally everything.

Travelling as a family also means that you need to consider how you travel, especially with a young child.  So, in this episode I take you through how I tried to keep costs down, without spoiling the fun.  Some of it is being patient and researching.  Some of it is looking at things with a different lens and, dare I say it, mindset.

Hopefully this episode will inspire you with ideas for not only how to travel on a budget, but also to start saving and planning for a holiday - they really are necessary!