About Slow Travel Tales

Slow Travel Living - Three Months In Each City

Living Abroad On A Budget

London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Rome and Madrid

© by Slow Travel Tales - Long Acre
at Slingsby Place, London, UK

It was the economic downturn in 2008 and a layoff that led me to living a slow travel European lifestyle. Unemployed and single, I began thinking about my future and how to turn an unfortunate situation into an opportunity of a lifetime. I started painting a new future in my mind. If I don't have a permanent residence and furnishings, then I could live anywhere in the world. I realized I'd be better off retired, unencumbered and free rather than continuing on the treadmill going nowhere. I devised a 3-year plan to live abroad in Europe on a fixed retirement budget.

Thank you for finding your way to my profile and blog. If you want to explore the idea of travel as an adventurous, in depth, experiential journey, and might consider living a local lifestyle abroad, then remember to revisit my site. Within these pages, I'll endeavor to share what I learned on my journey. I trust that you'll be able to apply the suggestions, tips and tools to your own slow travel planning.

What options might you have to carve out a 3-month period so you could live in a foreign county for an extended time? What's the first city you'd like to live in?

© European City Travel Journals
by SlowTravelTales.com

In order to get you started with your travel planning, I've created a collection of European travel planning notebook and bullet journals for each of the major cities that I lived in: Berlin, Brussels, London, Madrid, Munich, Paris, Rome, Vienna and a notebook for Europe.

Bon Voyage!

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