Before the trip, we had the vision that we would like to keep the budget for food and sleep up to 16USD per person, respectively 32USD for two. This has succeeded in the two countries - Sweden and Finland. The advantage of the Scandinavian countries is that although they are more expensive, they you cam wild camping, which means camp for free. In Germany, free camping is forbidden, so we stayed in camps. Later, we found out that even in Germany wild camping isn’t big deal, so we will be smarter next time. In Denmark, the fines for sleeping out of camps are so huge that the three overpriced nights were still better than the fine . However, there are places where you can stay for free, we found only one. Iceland is really a expensive country, even though we tried to save wherever we could, our daily spending climbed quite high. We came to Russia in the autumn, it was quite cold and honestly, we were a little afraid to wild camping. The Russians told us that there is no worry about wild camping, but they also advice to sleep far away from people, so we rather slept in hotels / hostels. In Japan we were camping again and the food was so cheap there! Luxury desserts for 1USD, rice sandwich for 1 USD. It was so good that we ate it five times a day and eventually we were surprised how much we spent there. But it’s true that we also bought new cell phone, ticket on shinkanzen and we spent free nights in a hotel due to the typhoon.
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