Hollick - How YOU Can Afford To Travel

Chapter 1: Bored With Typical Travel?

Have you wondered what places you can travel to the cheapest?

Would you like to find unexplored off the beaten path places to travel?

Are you totally bored with typical packaged same-old holidays? Longing for something a little different?

Are you tired of walking half a mile down corridors, waiting for elevators, then walking another half mile of paved walks to get to an over-stuffed pool or a crowded beach with people lined-up like dominoes and fighting over sunbeds?

Are you sick of having to race down to the pool to put a towel on a chair to save it? Or worse yet, paying for a chair?

Are you tired of lining-up to book a restaurant table a day before you even know what kind of food you might feel like that day?

Do you get bored meeting only fellow tourists, and never meeting the every day real people of the country?

Would you like to find lesser-known places that cost less?

Would it be more fun to travel to cheap destinations?

Does waking up on an empty white sand beach a few steps from the sparkling clear aquamarine ocean, appeal to you?

Does a trip that could actually cost way less than that package holiday appeal to you even more ?

Are you searching for those non-touristy places that are cheaper?

Maybe were eccentrics, but we absolutely dont want to go where everybody else goes. Oh yes, there are a few traditional tourist places we want to see, like the South of France, but we have no desire, for example, to go to Paris. For all the glam and glitter written about Paris, we heard friends and family who have been there whisper under their breaths (as if they were embarrassed to admit it), that Paris was noisy and dirty and that the people were really quite rude. Actually, to us, thats the same for most big cities too busy, too difficult to get around, too noisy, too expensive and too touristy.

To wander around a small town and find homemade local foods at a quarter of the price of big cities, or have a villager start a shy chat, or when you ask for advice and found you are taken directly to the place youre looking for these are just a few of the advantages of going to smaller centres.

Safety? Many people think its safer to go to well-known tourist destinations, but think about your own towns and cities at home. Are big cities safer than small towns? Big cities on the tourist radar map often have scammers and thieves just ready and waiting to part tourists with their money. But you will wear the biggest smile ever when a local on a small island offers you a fresh mango that he just plucked from high on the tree.

T and I had great adventures in Nicaragua. It was inexpensive, fun, intriguing, authentic and incredibly beautiful. From the most exquisite turquoise ocean on our own private white sand beaches, to town squares that entertained us for hours, and to a town that had us contemplating buying a small property there, to experiencing life on an uninhabited island, to zip-lining across the misty tree tops of the jungle We couldnt have had a better time!

So dont be afraid to try travelling to somewhere different, away from the madding crowds.

Chapter 2: Sassy Travel Style: Travel More, Spend Less

Our travel style is sassy because it is a bit different, a bit bold, a bit adventurous, and as inexpensive as possible. Trends are more and more toward adventure travel, which we love, but we like comfort too, so we dont do hostels and backpacking. On the other hand, luxury travel is out too because we like to experience the local culture.

Still we travel somewhere every year, for at least a month, to one country, usually a little-known place. Our logic for spending a month or more in visiting that country is that if we are going to spend money on a flight, we want to truly experience everything about the country its people, its culture, its food, its natural wonders, and its ambiance.