keeping a budget in portugal.
advance planning is a good start. you can purchase your tickets months in advance and not feel the sting when you're about to take off. with months of planning you can save and really figure out where you want to go, do, see. spontaneity is always fun. i would just make sure you have a place the first night you arrive in a town. it's not fun walking around with backpacks in the middle of the night, possibly lost, and being a target. but they're good for stories when you're back home. there are many good hostels on hostellinginternational.com i use them or hostels.combootsnall.com is a decent site and so is couchsurfing.com (but you have to host a guest before you can stay on someone else's couch for free.in lisbon, there are some REALLY nice hostels. bus travel is cheap and the south of portugal, faro, is also cheap. it's a small town on the coast so you get the local experience. will...
