There are 4 key values that we find important when traveling: improving our environmental impact, deeper personal experiences, more meaningful social relations, and supporting the local economy

Keywords: social , travel , workaway , budget , economical, Greece , money , weirdosabroad

Choices with financial savings CAN put more stress on the environmental aspect (for example plane versus train or car), but not always. For food, the cheapest price should be local products. So preferably a street market instead of a supermarket full of imported products. And if you do shop in a supermarket try to find the local produce instead of imported avocados or bananas. For us, the nutritional part matters as well. We could eat cup noodles every day and spent around 1 EUR on food but that is not in our interest. So we shop for “good” food and keep a balance between nutrition and affordable products. Wherever we can, we drink from the tap. Water is our main source of life! We don’t drink much alcohol and don’t go to cafes very often so this bill stays pretty low…

https://weirdosabroad.wordpress.com/2020/11/09/money-money-money

2 thoughts on “There are 4 key values that we find important when traveling: improving our environmental impact, deeper personal experiences, more meaningful social relations, and supporting the local economy

  1. I was contacted via a message sent with Gmail by a person claiming to be responsible for “Money, money, money…” @ “Weirdos Abroad” (the article / blog post linked-to above), which expressed wonder: “I don’t know if I should feel flattered or offended.”

    In my (somewhat humble) opinion, when I give someone ANY review, they could (should?) feel flattered that I made the effort to share information they want to express to the world via the Internet — I feel it is a vote of confidence and support.

    I do not interact with Gmail — I don’t find that to be a reliable and / or trustworthy service (see also “Herding Millennials” https://connect.data.blog/2020/09/16/herding-millennials-a-new-agenda-for-tech ).

    Yet if the person responsible for the content @ Weirdos Abroad wishes to become a more active participant in my content / websites (or if anyone else with expertise related to any of the content in any of my reviews wishes to become more involved in my work), please feel free to contact me — but *PLEASE* use a more secure information channel than some Silicon Valley company that will primarily use such information by selling it down the river to the highest bidder in short shrift.

    Thank you! (& happy trails! … ) 😀

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