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Poland has been in our sights since we started this journey and we are incredible excited to begin travelling around a country with so much beauty and history! In this video we have one big day in Poznan, Poland trying to see all the best attractions around the city. Unfortunately Poznan has had a lot of construction lately and looks like it might continue for all of 2022 so we will need to be come back in 2023 ;) Watch the full video here

For some reason we thought it was a good idea to get an overnight FlixBus from Amsterdam, Netherlands all the way to Poznan, Poland 😬(It was not a good idea) Here is our full experience spending the night on a Flixbus in Europe. Watch the full video here #flixbus #flixbuseurope #europeflixbus

To celebrate Jordans birthday we decided to spend the day exploring Amsterdam! We found a quiet moment in Begijnof before treating ourselves to an (expensive) beer on the canal. Then we splurged on a wine and cheese cruise down the canals with Flagship Amsterdam! Watch the full video here

Staying in another gorgeous house sitters in a little town called Haarlem has meant we have been afforded the best opportunity to Explore Haarlem and the Netherlands with our stomachs! On this DIY Dutch food tour we try some classics at home before catching the bus into Haarlem and trying a lot of other traditional foods, Including raw herring! Luckily we finish with some red wine and cheese. P.S it's about a week after we filmed this video and we still are walking around with Speculaas in a zip-lock bag. 😆 Watch the full video here

So why record our expenses? We wrestled with the idea of spending all our money on experiences versus knuckling down at work in an attempt to set ourselves up for the future. Ultimately, we decided that houses can burn down, investments can be lost and money can be wasted but memories can never be taken from you. We wanted to solidify those memories by creating videos. But also wanted to show people a realistic view of what a full-time travel lifestyle would cost. When I went looking for something similar they we're few and far between so I wanted to do something for the next person who comes looking. And so, a terrible and laborious google sheet was born. It's since been updated many times and is much easier to manage. All of the data here is from that sheet. Where did the money come from? When we tell people that we are travelling full-time, they tend to have the same few comments. We must have wealthy parents who are paying for everything, or that we have come into inheritance or a lottery win or something else crazy. While we both acknowledge we are very privileged to be able to earn an income (and both have jobs unaffected by the pandemic) - so all the money we have saved up has been solely from working at jobs that we held without any tertiary education. I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed putting it together! What you came here for: Breakdown of what's below: Expenses YouTube Analytics Summary Expense Report Expense by category This is a quick reference category breakdown of our expenses. These numbers are looking a lot better than our previous attempts. $38 per night for accommmodation is great and when you realise that this was June, in Europe, after covid. It's Incredible. we manage to do this by adding nights in free-stay accommodations which I'll explain more about below. Other than taht, no expensive tours really helped us in this one too! Accommodations Expenses We signed up for Trusted house sitters a while ago and always planned to implement it into our long term travel lifestyle. Thankfully we managed to get accepted by a lovely family in Rodez, France. You can see the video here. While we were staying put and resting we took care of the house and pets and managed to catch up on lots of work. It has reaaallyy helped us and we are forever thankful to the family that took a chance on us and the trusted house sitters website! You can sign up using this link to get 25% off: Click this link! Transport Expenses Things to note: The numbers are different to the 'Expenses by Category' Section. that's because in that section I use the Master sheet which includes small transports like Ubers, Grabs and Taxis which I thought wouldn't add value in this section! (I kept the total the same) This months transports were not too bad for us. The only real shocker was the transfer we needed to get in order to meet our Ryan air flight out of Rome. The flight leaves so early that public transport isn't running yet. Theres also no ride standard uber in Rome so believe it or not, the cheapest option was to spend over $100 for a private transfer in a van at 4am. Really hurt the sould to drop an entire days budget on one 40 minute drive. But, beggers and all that. Fixed Costs Insurance is expensive but worth it. Safety wing is our insurer of choice, they seemed to offer the most comprehensive cover especially when lots of countries needed specific types of insurance during the pandemic, they were great! Adobe is the software we used to edit our YouTube videos Epidemic sound is where we get all our music from, you can get a free trial with this link*: https://share.epidemicsound.com/i1nhpc Income This month was great! still going well from our Thailand video we started to go a bit crazy with our Vietnam video's. Particularly our train video, Sapa Video and our Ha long Bay cruise. Those three kept us going through both India and Egypt where we saw an immediate and significant drop across the board (More on that below) YouTube Analytics This month was a continuation of the dramatic fall that happened as soon as we left the south east asia region. In may we had over 300,000 views but in June we were relegated to just over 70,000 and still falling. We also had a big drop in new subscribers as lots of the previous ones started to unsubcribe. We had high hopes in that leaving Egypt and India behind the views would start to rise again but we simply moved into the saturated market that is Europe in summer. Where we really struggled to stand out. Even if we felt like the videos we were making were among our best! you can be the judge! Total revenue was $260 for the month and we have a feeling we have a long and difficult battle to get back to the higher numbers. Summary Final balance at the end of June Expenses: -$2,823.50 Income: +$260.83 Change - $2,563.50 While the income has taken a big hit this month we sometimes forget to take stock of the entire situation. Even though we are eating savings, we are still travelling the world so any sort of income we are super thankful for. All-in-all we were still under our daily budget for the month of $100 per day and made a small dent in the overall running budget, trying to claw our way back from an expensive May. Unfortauntely, the next 2 months are in Europe in summer and because we are moving so fast we havent got any House sitting opportunities (yet) to soothe the budget. I'm not looking forward to the bloodbath! Thank you so much if you have read this far! Editorial Note - Opinions expressed here are author's alone, not those of any bank, credit card issuer, hotel, airline, or other entity. 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We arrived on our flix bus, calculated that we only had 19 hours in Rotterdam before our next flix bus and decided to make the most of it. Grabbing a tourist map from our hostel we followed it for the remainder of the day. We saw some interesting statues, a maritime museum and some great sights along the river. Our day was book-ended by some delicious beers too! Watch the full video here

Today we ate our way through one of our new favourite cities - Brussels! We decided to do a DIY Belgian Food Tour and tried some traditional Belgian food, ate our weight in fries and of course washed it all down with some Belgian Beer 🍺 Our 5 foods to try were Belgian waffles from the Waffle Factory (both Brussels and Leige), Frites (fries) from Fritland, Mitraillette Sandwich from La Friterie, Belgian Chocolate from La Belgian Gourmand and Belgian Beer from the Irish Pub called Celtica!

Today we fly Ryan Air from Rodez France to Charleroi Airport in Belgium. After catching the Flibco bus into Brussels we run out to explore the city centre see Mannekin Pis and the Grand Place. The next day we head out to the awesome Atomium and Parc Du Cinquantenaire!

While in the South of France we decided to catch a few trains and check out the bigger sites! one of which is todays destination the beautiful Montpellier! We didn't know what to expect from this city at all but because it's in France, we knew it would be beautiful! We get to see a bunch of sites and have a not-so-healthy picnic in a park! Such a fun day! Watch the full video here

We had never heard of this incredible city before we started looking around the south of France. But WOAH, we are so glad we decided to swing passed and check it out. The medieval city of Carcassonne is honestly one of the best stops we have had so far! and may be the BEST castle in Europe and was certainly a hidden gem of France for us! (Although it seems to be well known to other Europeans! ) The castle is still in incredible condition and it was so interesting to walk around the ramparts and imagine what it would have been like in medieval times. It also gave us amazing views of the city! We had such a good day here! Watch the full video here