Another Trip to Europe

How do we travel?

Yes, we are going to Europe again this year. That’s three times in three years. Whenever I have shared this with others, I often get this question asked to me - “Where do you work? And how do you fund your travels?”

Here’s a small Instagram post ↗ we did on this.

And honestly, both Suneela and I just love travelling. Sometimes, we are working less, just so that we can take time to travel and explore the world. We save when we can and spend on travel whenever we can.

That makes sense, but why Europe?

There are many reasons why Europe is our favourite continent. Here are a few:

• Great public transport - It’s easy to get around, explore cities at a leisure pace.

• Highly accessible nature - In many European countries, getting to nature is quite easy. Sometimes, you can walk in your backyard and reach nature in no time.

• Accessible history - Europe has a lot of history. Some of the Monuments and places are more than 2000 years old. The history is also quite accessible and well preserved. You can do a walking tour or just go to a tourist office to identify places or museums to explore by yourselves.

When Europe?

So the question for us is not “Why Europe?”, but “When Europe?“.

When we plan our trip, the first thing we look at is the flights. We identify a few cities in Europe and check which are the cheapest flights available. We also look for the cheapest dates to travel to Europe. And once we have a few options, we start formulating a rough plan around that city/country.

For this trip, we booked a ✈️ to Zurich. Since we love long travel, we decided to stay in Europe till the end of May till we absolutely need to leave this region (because of visa).

Our plan

We initially thought of spending a week in Switzerland, but it was quite last minute and we couldn’t find cheaper accommodation. So, after a week of playing around with the idea of travelling to Switzerland, we gave up and decided to travel to the next best country offering Alpine views, aka Austria.

Austria is situated right next to Switzerland, and we found that it also has a similar look and feel to Switzerland. ⛰️ Alps cover 60% of the country’s territories. As we have previously travelled to the Tyrol Region (we have visited the Tyrol region in Italy aka Dolomites region a few years ago), we were quite excited to plan a trip to the Tyrol Region of Austria. Its famous capital is Innsbruck, a small city with views of the alps from every direction. We also wanted to spend a couple of weeks in Austria and formulated a small plan to stay in Innsbruck and move west to Salzburg and Vienna.

We booked our accommodations for Austria and had a rough plan to go to Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic after this. These are neighbouring countries (to Austria) and have interesting cities and nature.

Conclusion

We know that our plan is not formulated fully. It’s quite up in the air. We will figure out the rest of the plan as we go along. Quite exciting, no?

Thanks to Divya Hasti ↗ for some amazing recommendations of places in Central Europe. We got some flavour of the countries we’re visiting from her.

That’s all for now. In our next blog, I will share more details on our trip to Austria. And our experience of being stuck in one remote village, without any means to travel back to our Airbnb 🤔

Do share your thoughts and suggestions about our trip in the comments below.