🇬🇧 I don’t go backpacking

I don't go backpacking. Sometimes people ask me for tips on this type of travel and cheap trips, but it's not my thing. I have a travel experience that led me to prefer comfort and privacy above all when I travel.

When I was studying business administration, I took a vacation trip to Porto Seguro, a beautiful city on the Brazilian coast, in the region where the country was discovered by the Portuguese. I had already been there on another occasion. This time, I went with my family on an excursion. And I regretted it a few hours after we left home. I lived at the time in Montes Claros, about 850km from Porto Seguro. We went by bus. And before the bus reached Salinas, 280km from the origin, it broke 3 times! The third was night, and we were there on the road, in the middle of nowhere. I cried. I asked to be dropped off in the first city so I could take a bus back home. We hadn't made a quarter of the trip and there were so many problems that it seemed impossible to reach the destination. That was the last time the bus broke down.  But the accommodation proved to be as bad as the route. We stayed in an inn where many people shared the same room and had no private bathroom. This is totally unacceptable to me.

The trip had fun times, but staying in a hostel or anywhere I have to sleep with strangers and sharing a bathroom with a lot of people is something I prefer to avoid.

At that time, I even went to concerts on the beach at night, which I had not gone from the previous trip. But ... traveling is only worth it with some comfort and a lot of privacy.

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Nycka, the Nomad