Traveling Tips (get a bigger bang for your buck)

This is a collection of useful information (tips and techniques - most of which has been discovered the hard way) about travelling in Europe, especially if travelling on a budget. It encompasses information about a range of types of public transport including the trains and planes. Having managed to 'bumble' my way around New Zealand for most of my life without serious mishap I had a few surprising and eye opening experiences (most outlined in detail below) upon arrival to this continent. Hopefully this will help ensure you don't make similar mistakes.
The articles cover a range of topics, the most obvious being things such as the communication barriers, and secondly my notion that everything would be exactly the same as New Zealand and that it would actually be easy. Also things that you may not think about until its to late, like travel insurance for example. Travel Insurance is an imperative purchase but maybe not the first thing you think about when taking that European vacation of a lifetime.

Travel in Europe by train
I should probably start this by explaining two things: In the past I have never been a public transport kind of guy. I only have memories of being late, or not showing up at all when relying on public transport. I have smelt body odour in the New York subway and got lost in London on the Tube. However from the minute
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Travel in Europe by plane
Getting to Europe is an expensive task, however once here, everything is very close and travel can be affordable if you are clever, I have identified a few tricks that enable you to get those European vacations you want without paying the price for airline tickets.
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Tips for purchasing travel insurance
While I have never had one of those terrible experiences of seriously injuring myself or anyone I am travelling with I am also a big fan of travel insurance and make a contentious effort to ensure that I always have travel insurance for any backpacking holiday I take.
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Traveling in Europe (backpacking)
I write this while currently backpacking through Europe. In fact I have been travelling for almost three months now. I left New Zealand with little more than my pack and a set of skis. I am currently staying in a small country called Luxembourg
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Tips for learning French
I have travelled a little before but my eyes where defiantly shut when I left for Europe. I had the standard Kiwi – ‘it will be fine attitude’. That meant can’t speak the language . . . no problem. Don’t know anyone there . . . no problem. Don’t have a job . . . no problem. I was actually ignorant enough to believe that Luxembourg would be exactly the same as New Zealand
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Tips for packing your travel first aid kit - what do I need?
'Be Prepared' It's the Boy Scout motto and it defiantly applies to first aid situations. This is never more relevant than when your packing your bags and heading to an unknowns and exciting location on vacation. It is not uncommon when travelling to find yourself along way from help if there is an emergency. If camping, tramping or backpacking, at home or in foreign country there are a few essential items to carry.
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