Who are the Frugal Travellers?
Hello, we’re Lee and Mandy. We’ve been travelling together after first meeting in Nepal in 1996, and have visited over 100 countries since then. We are self confessed travel addicts and have devoted our lives to slowly wandering the globe. We’re not rich but we want to see the world, so we get around on a budget and have spent the last 3 decades perfecting the art of Frugal Travel!
We provide travel stories, tips, advice and encouragement so you can get out there yourself!
Our goal is to share the things we’ve learnt on the road in order to help others visit their dream destinations and to show that world travel doesn’t have to cost a fortune!
Would you like to know more about us?
What is Frugal Travel anyway?
We travel for long periods by keeping the costs down. This doesn’t mean going without too much or missing out on the great sights there are to see out there. It means travelling smart by making the right choices for accommodation, transport and eating options.
We travel on a budget. Our average spend is $25 US a day, each. This covers everything, including transport, accommodation, eating, drinking and everyday costs. In certain parts of the world such as Europe and North America this can be a challenge but for the rest of the world this isn’t difficult at all.
In this manner, we’ve managed to travel slowly around the world, having some incredible adventures along the way.
And we’d like to show you how we do it!
How to travel the world as a Frugal Traveller
Frugal Travel Tips section
Is frugal travel difficult?
It’s all up to personal choice – for us, it was always about choosing to go to a cheap and cheerful local cafe rather than a Michelin-star restaurant, to take public transport rather than taxis, and to stay in budget hotels/guesthouses with a shared bathroom rather than a 5-star resort.
You can actually travel the world long term, independently for way less than it costs to live in a major capital city like London or New York.
We are currently travelling the world on around US $25 each per day. That’s only $9125 per year!
We know it’s not for everyone but even small changes in the way you travel can mean significant savings… meaning you can travel more often or for that bit longer!
Our Current Journey section
Where to from here?
Read our About Us page for further information about our travels, including meeting in Nepal 24 years ago, and a brief run-down on what we’ve been doing since then.
Our Current Journey covers the current leg of our travels – as of January 2018 this is our Grand Tour of the Eurasian Continent. So far this journey has not only taken us to all of the destinations we have links to below, along with many more…
Go to our Destinations page for links to all the countries we have written about.
… with many more to come as well… Join us as we wander the globe
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Find out more
Please explore our site a little further, or head over and check out Our YouTube Channel there. In fact we are now starting to veer more towards Vlogging than blogging.
If you have any questions for us, we always love to hear from people so leave a comment below or write to us at thefrugaltravellers@gmail.com
5 thoughts on “Welcome to the Frugal Travellers”
Came across your youtube vids and wanted to say I found them very useful as a budget traveller in my fifties too. Keep up the good work and wondered if you would say something about travel insurance as you wander the planet. Do you have any tips and encountered any issues with claims etc.
Thanks again
We’re so pleased you find our YouTube videos helpful – that’s always great to hear!
Thank you as well for the great questions and suggestion. We used to automatically use World Nomads, and they seem to be promoted by every travel blogger. I last made a claim back in 1998… we’ve been so lucky since then!
We’ve recently discovered that World Nomads charge twice as much as other travel insurance companies, which might be linked with the commission they pay to bloggers!
As a result we need to look at other options ourselves and will definitely post our findings, whether they be on the blog or on our YouTube channel.
Thank you again – we really appreciate the feedback.
Hi and thanks for the reply.
I’ve heard of World Nomads and also noticed that they are more expensive to others. Look forward to any other alternatives you discover.
Hey would be interested if you find a better alternative to world nomads. We have looked but nomads seems to be the most comprehensive. Love your blog
Hello Tanya. We’ve heard good things about SafetyWings from fellow travellers, so will look at them once we start travelling again. We’re currently in Krakow – decided to sit out the coronavirus in Poland, for the next couple of months at least.