Cheap Holidaying/Backpacking: Never pay for the Internet again
Blog: Backpacking on the Cheap - 9 October 2009
By: Aussie Travelling on the cheap
CHEAP BACKPACKING/Free internet: A random photo from my trip - my friends pretend ing they have a sense of style
Getting free Internet and cheap calls on your backpacking trip
When it comes to cheap backpacking, whether you are backpacking Bulgaria, Greece, Germany, the UK or even Asia - this tip will save you a lot.
I picked up an old Nokia phone with Wifi (EU75) from a gypsy market in Varna (Bulgaria) two months ago, and I’ve been sponging off other peoples open wifi connections ever since!
The beauty of this is that each time I use my new free internet connection instead of paying Euro 2-5 (sometimes 10!), eventually that money saved means that I will eventually make the cost of the phone back and then start actively saving/making money.
It also means that because it is wifi on a phone, I do not have to carry around a heavy laptop everywhere I go, and also, it is not so obvious I'm sponging off other's wifi!
I’ve also downloaded a nifty program called fring, which lets me call others on skype/google talk etc for free or landlines/mobiles for a small fee when at a wifi hotspot. The fee is much less than what you can expect to pay with the normal 'cheap' international phone cards.
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