Most People Come to Bratislava for Just One Day; We Booked an Entire Month
Plus join us at the Go Overseas Summit
This month’s newsletter comes to you from the beautiful, exciting and somewhat gritty city of Budapest.
We’ve been here for a few weeks and are amazed at the contrasts. On one hand, we’ve found ourselves impressed by the grand historic buildings on both sides of the Danube (in fact, we’ll bring you along for a cruise in an upcoming video).
At the same time, our very central location gives us an eyeful of the other side of Budapest: rundown buildings, bars and lots of blokes enjoying a cheeky weekend. To illustrate the point, our very pleasant and comfortable Airbnb overlooks the Foxtrott Gentlemen’s Club, which fortunately seems to have gone out of business a long time ago.
Plan your own adventures
If our travel stories have inspired you to start planning a new chapter of life, you might be interested in the upcoming Go Overseas Summit on July 10-11.
This is a free virtual conference hosted by International Living and featuring an exciting mix of experts from all over the world. Topics include funding your life abroad with an online side gig or second career, low-cost destinations, overseas investing, real estate, retirement visas and more.
In fact, a couple of those experts will be us; we’re sharing the biggest lessons that we’ve learned after spending almost four years living as nomads. You can click here to learn more.
Is a month in Bratislava way too long?
Bratislava is the type of city where tourists usually just stop by for a short visit. It’s got a compact old town; you can cover off the main sights in a single day; and — to make it even easier — it’s just a short train ride away from Vienna.
For all these reasons, we were wondering if we had made a huge mistake booking an entire month.
What’s next
From Budapest we head to Romania, specifically to the charming town of Sibiu. We had two options to get there. We could either fly in relative comfort for a hefty peak season price or spend two days on the train for a fraction of the cost.
To both our surprise, Gillian won this round so train travel it is. 😜
We’ll be sharing the highlights and inevitable lowlights from our 9-hour journey to Romania on our Instagram Stories. Make sure to join us there for all the fun.
See you on the road!
Stephanie & Gillian
6 Comments
Jessica C.
So fun to see you both exploring Eastern Europe! And congrats on your speaking roles at the IL Conference! You two are my favorite travel bloggers, I’ve learned so much from your videos and am taking these learnings to plan our own life of slow travel – starting in a 2-3 years hopefully 🙂
Our Freedom Years
It’s been exciting to be back in Europe and discovering all new destinations this time round. We’re really glad to hear that you’ve been finding our content helpful as you plan out adventures of your own. You’ll probably find that a couple years goes by quickly and you’ll be exploring the world before you know it! 😊
Jessica C.
Glad you’re having fun in Europe! And yay absolutely, we’re keeping laser focused on our goal of travel-FI 🙂 We’re downsizing right now to save more money and I remember your video where you sold all your stuff online, we’re living a similar moment now. And we’ll sell even more stuff once we’re finally ready to start. Thanks for the support, seeing you execute on your vision is super encouraging !
Our Freedom Years
Ah, downsizing! That brings back some hilarious memories. Glad that part of our journey is long over! 😂 Good luck with your countdown and beginning the next chapter.
Jessica C.
Haha I bet! We figure that when we travel the world, we won’t be staying in 3 bed 3 bath houses on our budget so let’s get used to a smaller space now, save some $, and spend way less time with house maintenance/repairs! Btw, I’ve been in touch over email with you both before and once we’re moved in to this condo, we’ll officially dive deep into planning our world travel. Hope it’s still OK to contact you with questions 🙂
Our Freedom Years
Of course! Feel free to reach out. 😊