I've always wanted to travel the world, but I never had the courage to leave until a few years ago, because the society costantly tell us that travel costs a lot and we can afford it if we don't have much money.
Plus, tell us that the world is dangerous, you can't do that if you don't have a steely character couldn't address all the pitfalls and difficulties of being away from home, and you don't talk to strangers, and you hear so many bad things around, and that when you were in school you weren't good at languages, and then I can't could you possibly do , etc..
After living a few years outside of Italy, and have lived on my skin the lack of money and work, I discovered the power of Exchange and recovery of human relations, the real ones, and I discovered that we can live with very little without depriving us of anything, and this is also true for travel.
Then last year I managed with the latest work to put aside some money, and I decided to go around the world.
I travel from November 2015, son departed from Lille (North of France) very slowly, towards Spain. I travel for a few months and so far I have had no need to reserve any hotel (except for a few nights in the hostel), I always found someone happy to host me in Exchange for a hand around the House or working a few hours a day to advance a project.
How?
Today the web is full of sites of Exchange, I'm using sites like Couchsurfing e Bewelcome If I want to visit a big city, otherwise I participate in interesting projects compared to what I'm interested in learning about (I usually try Permaculture projects or eco buildings) through Workaway o HelpX (costa 20 euro membership but lasts 2 years), or Wwoofing o Volunteersbase (the latter charge).
The concept is simple: I work a few hours a day (usually 5 hours a day, 5 days a week) and help my host to advance in his project, and in return I have a bed, 3 meals a day, plus the most important advantage is that I'm learning a lot, I acquire important knowledge, as if you were taking a course of free training!
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