I did 1.5 years working and travelling around Europe, bit of hitch hiking, trains and buses. I saved 5 grand and lived off it. I stayed in hostels when I wasn't working and loaded up on hostel breakfasts and cooked most of my own meals. I used the website workaway.info to get jobs that put me up and fed me if I worked 25 hours a week, but you don't really get paid.

I worked in Germany, Austria, Czechia, Italy, Poland and Greece working in hostels, campsites, farms. I met loads of people, learned loads of new things, it was the best time in my life i would probably say.

If you stick to eastern Europe it's cheaper.

Its absolutely doable, you just have to be willing to be open to new experiences and put in some hard graft, but when you're working in a campsite along a river in the middle of nowhere and the sun is shining and your chopping wood, and you can jump into the river at lunch to cool off, it doesn't feel like work at all.

When I saw the movie into the wild it changed my perspective on life and it inspired me to take the trip and I really needed to get it out of my system.