Owen Rascovitch

Did you break it down per day or per week or something like that?

Does that include accommodation?

Okay, hostels, cool.

Now I just thought we'd get straight to the meat of the conversation.

Yeah.

But let's go back in time a bit.

So I think one of the ways that we're going to tackle this is kind of following, I guess, your journey to planning this holiday and some of the tools and tips you have for listeners and myself, if I'm going to get over to Europe anytime soon.

You and I were talking off air.

You started planning for this holiday, even though this is coming up in early 2020, you started planning for this maybe towards the end of 2018.

Yeah.

So over a year and a bit.

Anything else?

That's a really good way to think about it, right?

Just what do you want from your trip first and foremost?

It's also important to be realistic to some extent, right?

You know, if you want a backpack, it's going to be a completely different experience to then having kids or, you know, going and living the lifestyle in a hotel, like a four-star or above.

One of the things I found really useful, we found useful was just simply Googling for average costs in cities and TripAdvisor was a really good resource for us because, you know, TripAdvisor, this is not just us being a poster child for that, but TripAdvisor was really good because you could effectively, you know, just get the top 10 sites for each city or each location that you're in and then all have the approximate cost.

and you kind of work back from there not that you need to plan every day i think if you plan every single day you trip you don't leave much to the imagination yeah so um yeah you don't want to be doing that necessarily but at the same time it gives you a rough idea and it was pretty cheap to be in vietnam for a few weeks

Totally, yeah.

I think in Vietnam, unless you're very confident on a scooter or on a pushbike, you wouldn't want to be just... A bit dangerous?