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Greetings Budget Travel Readers!

Posted in Airlines, Airports, Automobiles, Canada, Caribbean, Carnivals, Central America, Cheap Activities, Entertainment, Food, Free Stuff, Internet Access, Lodging, Luggage, Museums, Online Media, Public Transport, Shopping, South America, Sports, Travel, USA, Web Tips on 11 October 2008 | 2 Comments »

If you’re new to Less Than a Shoestring, please take some time and have a poke around! I welcome your questions and comments on the site. This blog shows that travel can indeed be both pleasurable and frugal. Because I live in Europe, you’ll find loads of information on European no-budget travel — [...]

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Travel on a Shoestring Carnival: Asia, Oz #6

Posted in Asia, Australia, Automobiles, Carnivals, China, Food, India, Lodging, Public Transport, Sports, Travel, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on 20 July 2008 | 2 Comments »

Welcome to the sixth Travel on a Shoestring Carnival for Asia, Oz. Here you’ll find Asian, Australian, New Zealand and Oceania travel tips for those without a lot of money to spend.

Photographic inspiration this week from Nancie McKinnon, another fabulous image courtesy of Intelligent Travel’s Global Eye. You can read more about Nancie’s [...]

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Travel on a Shoestring Carnival: Americas #6

Posted in Architecture, Automobiles, Carnivals, Central America, Cheap Activities, Food, Free Stuff, Lodging, Museums, Travel, USA, Web Tips, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on 14 July 2008 | 2 Comments »

Welcome to the sixth Travel on a Shoestring Carnival for the Americas. Here you’ll find North American, Central American and Caribbean travel tips for those without a lot of money to spend.

Photographic inspiration this week comes from Ralph Grunewald via Intelligent Travel’s Global Eye feature. You can read the details of his photo from [...]

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Travel on a Shoestring Carnival: Americas #5

Posted in Automobiles, Budget, Canada, Caribbean, Carnivals, Cheap Activities, Entertainment, Food, Lodging, Museums, Public Transport, Rail, Travel, USA, Web Tips, tagged , , , , , , on 14 June 2008 | 2 Comments »

Welcome to the fifth Travel on a Shoestring Carnival for the Americas. Here you’ll find North American, Central American and Caribbean travel tips for those without a lot of money to spend. 
This week’s photographic inspiration comes from the Canada article at DirectoryM.  The entry is loaded with tons of information about the country, including a [...]

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Tuesday Mailbag

Posted in Airports, Automobiles, Contest, Currency, Packing, Public Transport, Rail, Shopping, Travel, USA, Web Tips, tagged , , , , , , on 10 June 2008 | 3 Comments »

Help *me* feel the love!  There’s just two more days for you to give me your advice on Frankfurt-Hahn and surrounds, Cologne/Bonn, Seville and Granada.  Everyone leaving a comment has a chance to win a modest prize, hand-selected from each destination by yours truly.  So get entering!
Carla from Phoenix is planning some extensive travel around the Midwest, “Chicago [...]

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Travel on a Shoestring Carnival: Europe #4

Posted in Automobiles, Belgium, Carnivals, Cheap Activities, Currency, Europe, France, Guidebooks, Italy, Lodging, Photos, Shopping, Slovenia, Spain, Travel, United Kingdom, Web Tips, tagged , , , , , , , on 7 June 2008 | 1 Comment »

Welcome to the fourth Travel on a Shoestring Carnival for Europe. Here you’ll find European travel tips for those without a lot of money to spend.

Photographic inspiration this week comes from yours truly, with a sloping street view of flowering balconies, rain-slicked cobblestones and lush wisteria growing over ancient stone walls captured in Girona, Spain in April.
Andrew Evans reminds us of the [...]

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Friday Freebie: Canadian Tourist Information and Highway Maps

Posted in Automobiles, Canada, Free Stuff, Information, Travel, Web Tips, tagged , on 6 June 2008 | 5 Comments »

Today’s quiz: how many of the 13 Canadian provinces and territories can you correctly name? (Extra points if you can identify the one that didn’t exist when you were in school.)
By popular demand and just in time for the summer driving season, find a comprehensive guide to Canadian highway map and tourist information request forms [...]

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Wednesday Transportation Update

Posted in Airlines, Automobiles, Canada, Cheap Activities, Europe, Information, Luggage, Online Media, Public Transport, Rail, Travel, USA, Web Tips, tagged , , , on 4 June 2008 | 8 Comments »

RyanAir is making some changes to its fees structure that passengers should be aware of: for all flights booked after May 5, checked baggage fees are increasing to £8/€10 for the first bag booked online (£16/€20 if purchased at the airport), £16/€20 for each additional bag (max. 3 total) whether online or airport. [...]

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Random Travel Tips #3

Posted in Automobiles, Europe, Germany, Information, Internet Access, Luggage, Postal Services, Public Transport, Safety, Shopping, Travel, tagged , on 22 May 2008 | 6 Comments »

+ Before you take off on your trip, purge your wallet of all unnecessary cards (library cards, gift cards, Blockbuster, etc.) and leave them at home. Better yet, use a different wallet for your trip and selectively and consciously put items you need (ATM card, credit card, insurance information, driver’s license if you’ll [...]

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Friday Freebie: Rand McNally Road Atlas

Posted in Automobiles, Canada, Free Stuff, Guidebooks, Information, Travel, USA, Web Tips on 16 May 2008 | 1 Comment »

Get a free Rand McNally Road Atlas for filling out a survey about your shipping habits over at the DHL website. The atlas contains over 80 pages of maps for the United States, Canada and Mexico. A great resource before the summer travel season takes off!
While you’re thinking of it, why don’t you take a [...]

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