Wouldn’t it be great to be able to start over, young again, and travel? In our opinion, Kaylin is starting off just right. Having caught the travel bug early in life, at 21 she’s now heading out on a solo trip to the UK in a few weeks. She says she’s always wanted to go to London and the rest of the British Isles, and is a self-proclaimed British TV fanatic (especially Doctor Who). When I asked about her motivations for this trip, she replied:
I love to travel. I’ve been traveling around the US since I was a child, but I first traveled overseas 2 years ago when I studied abroad in France. I also visited Holland while I was there, and loved both countries. And last year I did an archaeological dig in Fiji with the National Science Foundation. This year I really wanted to go back to Europe and I had some money saved up.
Kaylin says that she’s very independent. By traveling solo, she hopes to prove that she can accomplish anything she puts her mind towards.
She came up with a reasonable budget of £50 per day by researching various European backpacking websites. She stated that she also used Budget Your Trip to help plan her travel budget. (Thanks Kaylin, you flatter us!)
We asked her to give us some advice to pass on to other travelers, and this is what she had to say:
If you’re traveling in the UK, megabus.com has some fantastic cheap train and bus fares!! I bought most of my travel tickets through them (3/5) and the most expensive one was £6! That is for a night bus between Edinburgh and London. The other two were only £1.50. (One ride on a train, one on a bus.) Also, if you are under age 26, the first website you should check for flight prices is studentuniverse.com. You don’t have to be a student, just age 25 or younger (I’m almost 22). My round-trip flight to London from Atlanta (non-stop) was less than $600.
You can follow Kaylin’s travels at kaylinintheuk.blogspot.com or on Twitter @kayling05.
Bryan has visited exactly one more country than his wife, and she won't let him forget it! Also an avid photographer, he enjoys entrenching himself within the local culture in order to learn more about the people of a place. As a freelance web developer, he co-founded Budget Your Trip and Collective Lens. You can follow him on Twitter at @budgetyourtrip or @bryantighe.
