Nice blog you have there! You take very nice photos, felicitations!! With your eye on good photographic subjects, I look forward to your shots of these London events.

Thanks for visiting me here and really hope we could meet up in the future!

Take care.

Yeah, it’s always been my dream to put “A Pinay in Europe” on paperbound version. Thank you very much for the encouragement! Now, I must put my act together and start writing that book! Time waits for no one….

I admire your decision to go on a 3-4 month solo backpacking trip across Europe! “Huge expenses”, yes! This continent is very expensive and how ever you scrimp on food, it’s the accommodation, transport and unexpected expenses that will make a huge hole on your pocket! WWOOFing is a great idea! There’ also the Helpx org. where H and I volunteered for one month to work at a Bed and Breakfast hotel in Tuscany last November in exchange for food, accommodation and heating (it was getting to winter that time!). We gained a lot from this experience - learning Italian culture, how to run a hotel, how to cook a 5-course meal for 25 people in just two hours, speaking Italian like an Italian and a lot more. There was also the opportunity to visit awesome places nearby such as Siena, Florence, Lucca…. Hence, I really encourage you to do a bit of this but limit it to 1 or 2 weeks at a time! It’s the best way to get immersed in European culture and it’s free!

About your concern on safety, it’s generally safe. I’ve been travelling on my own, exploring courtyards and empty streets all in the name of photography but haven’t encountered anything nasty so far. Just beware of pickpockets which are rampant in big cities, otherwise you will be okay. I see a lot of solo lady backpackers everywhere I went, they stay in hostels where they meet travelling ladies like themselves and it’s fun to exchange stories!

The language barrier - as long as you do your homework which is to learn those simple phrases and they will take you a long, long way! Buy a phrase book. Anyway, the best language is body language and you will never go wrong! Just don’t smile at French men as they will take this as flirting…hehehe!!

Good luck and pls let me now if you are travelling around Paris or somewhere near so we could arrange to meet up for a café or a bit of touring around!

Best regards,
Maria

Ako nga pala yung nag post sa PEx about wanting to meet you and Neodyn!

I’m living in Harrow. Not part of Central London (Zone 4 eh) but I’m just less than 15mins away by tube from Zone 1
Ok! Will definitely share Olympics & diamond juilee celebration pics!

I’ll definitely follow your blog!

Been reading a lot of materials about traveling in Europe. So glad I happen to stumble upon your blogsite thru Pinoy Exchange. It is so informative, and you keep it interesting with your humorous style of writing. You should write a book one day and get it published

I am also passionate about traveling. This time, the travel bug has caught me real bad In fact, I will taking a sabbatical soon and spend 3-4 months backpacking across Europe. It’s going to be a long trip (read: huge expenses) so will be staying in hostels to stretch my budget. Thinking also of doing a bit of WWOOFing.

Because I am woman in my 30’s who will be traveling alone, my loved ones are concerned for my safety. It will be my first time in Europe but I have done a few solo traveling in the past e.g. USA, Fiji, Hong Kong and it all went well. It would be different this time because there will be lots of walking/commuting around carrying a huge backpack, and of course - the language barrier.

I wonder what’s your take about my upcoming journey/adventure. Salamat and hope see you in my travels

Thanks for the comment! It’s the feedback from readers that feeds my blogging soul, hehehe!!

With this Pinay site, at least it is easier to find my old PEX posts now that I have categorized them to cities, etc. If you need any help for your future backpacking trip, please feel free to ask me here. Take care!

Glad I come across your blogsite via the PinoyEx thread: A Pinay in Europe. Have a lot of catching up to read coz I’m still in page 8 and already 2am in my other side of the world hahaha… I love your style of writing - witty and informative

I will backpacking across Europe in August for 3-4 months so this site is helpful to me.

Cheers!
Marie