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Broke In Budapest - Day 1 The Fifty Pound Holiday
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Mar 24, 2025
Brand new challenge guys, what would you do if you had a £50 budget for a travel and booked the flight for £48, leaving you with £2 for food, accommodation and extras ..... what would i do? lets find out
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Hi guys, welcome back to the channel. So I'm at the airport, it's almost 10am. I've got my passport
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on me, I've got £50 on me and I've got a negative PCR test that I've taken. I'm going to walk up to
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the counter, see the cheapest ticket I can book for under £50 and then just fly there for the next
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five days and survive. So £50 is the total budget for travel, for expenses, food and for
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Oh, you're going to go get it? Yeah, I'm trying to. Oh, I don't want to go get it
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I don't want to be in the pillow. Where do you go
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Anywhere under £50. Anywhere under £50? The cheapest ticket you've got. Is it your destination
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Of all the destinations, which one's the cheapest? I don't know, sir
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I have to go in to the flight. Where do you want to go? Europe
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There's no way to like just scan to see the cheapest one
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All right so spontaneity seems a bit difficult these days so I'm on the website now
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I put London Stansted to anywhere and it's given me a bunch of results
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There are just tons and tons of them. So I can either look through all of them and see which ones are under £50 and then book
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return or I pick at random maybe I pick a word number 18 and just scroll to the 18 for it just
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well it needs to be within budget that's the thing okay update so I found a flight to Budapest return for £47.99
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that's quite close at this point I am a bit scared I was hoping maybe like 20 30 40 pound max
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so I've got like 10 pound for food at least maybe one pound a day at least something 48 pound on a
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ticket I've got two pound left I don't know if I want to do it it's fun doing these challenges
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in london because london i know like the back of my hand i know everything around budapest i've
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never been i know nothing about it i think i saw will smith climbing up on a building i don't know
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if that was budapest but that's all i know about budapest okay let's get it
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all right we're all set got the board and pass and got two pound left for the next five days
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Okay, just gone through security and we are in it
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Thank you I feel like this is a foretelling of this challenge
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Alright so I'm still at the airport I've been sat here for the past two hours or so
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Just doing research Tomorrow now, Tuesday, I found Board Game Tuesdays on Couchsurfing
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So at the moment, there are three people going, including myself. And it goes, you're also a gamer and would like to spend some hours around the table
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Got several types of complexity games. I love complexity games. So I'm up for that
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That's tomorrow at 5 p.m. We'll go for that. We'll see how it is. There's something else tomorrow, which is called Regular Tuesday Couchsurfing Meeting
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Now this one is the exciting one because it says available. Warm food, lockers for backpackers, movie theater chairs and monitors if you want to screen pictures about your previous or current journeys
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As said, this event is obviously for free. We kindly ask you to order and pay for your drink separately at the bar
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so it sounds like you can buy a drink at the bar but otherwise there's warm food
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lockers for backpackers pack packers so yeah tomorrow we've got a few things so in this type
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of situation a few things going through my mind is food where you're gonna find food you've got
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two pound for the next five days how are you gonna stretch that that's like two euros for the next
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five days if you say one pound a day i know if you go to the supermarkets you might be able to
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find things i don't know how the supermarkets are here or the prices are here compared to back home
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but i can even maybe find a loaf of bread for a pound or for a euro and just munch that like
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stretch it out over maybe a day or two so that's the first thing after that two euros runs out
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that's it done it's going to rely on like networking and like just other things so first
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thing food second thing shelter where to sleep that one i'm already messaging people on couch
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surfing i'm already swiping right on tinder and yeah i'm staying positive i think it's all about
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your the energy you're putting out if you put out like a stress panic energy that's what you get back
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but if you believe that all is as it should be and as it will be then it always does okay
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that was just a quick update all right update someone just asked me to explore the city with them so this is a fellow
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traveler that's in budapest at the moment Okay, so I'm going to take this as the universe offering me a hand
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I'm going to find a way to get to the central, meet up with this dude, and then hopefully
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get a sofa tonight. The bus I'm looking for is a blue bus 100E that goes straight to the central
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We just need to figure out the tickets and how that works
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Alright so I had a look at the machine and a single ticket from here at the airport to
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the central on a shuttle bus is 900 Hungarian currency and I've just looked that up and
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it exactly two pounds Two pounds four pence I don know if I would like completely cripple myself at the foot to get into the central
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then I'm like really really have nothing. I don't know if I want to do that but
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is that my bus? My bus is here so I'm gonna try to blag it. If not
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I'm gonna spend the last 2 pounds let me just get into the central
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This is something this I don't have a ticket. Can I jump on
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What? Can I jump on? I don't know. Can I get on the bus to the central
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Yes, this here. Okay, thank you. There are the city central. You are
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There are the city central. Yeah, this one. Here. Oh, I don't have a ticket
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You can buy this ticket machine. Yeah. Ticket you can buy. We made it on
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Okay, so I've just gone to the city centre. Hey man, how's it going
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I mean, people here seem friendly already, so it seems cool. I've been messaging this guy back and forth
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He goes, hi. I'm like, hi mate, just jumped on the shuttle bus from the airport. He goes, oh
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I go, not sure how long it will be, but I'll be there soon. He goes, you just arrived
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I'm like, yeah. He goes, okay, where are you staying? I mean at which part of the city
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I'm like oh I'm not sure yet Just going with the flow of the universe
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Which is what we're doing on this challenge He goes oh you didn't arrange a hostel yet
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I'm like nope He goes I see I see Do you want to meet at the bus stop
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Because I'm already at the city centre now Not far from where the airport bus stops
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Did you take the bus I'm like okay sure thing I'll let you know when I get there
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He goes, okay, cool. So I'll see you there soon. I'm gonna grab some food later. I want to join. I'm like, yes, please. Sounds good. Let's do that
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Can I go to Hey man, I'm near the bus stop now. One of the bus stop actually. Okay, let's look for this guy
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What's up? You good? Yeah, I hope you watch this. I hope you don't mind me vlogging
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Stefan doesn't want to be a camera, but that's fine. um okay so yeah this is my first experience on Budapest
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yeah but not just any vlogger like I try to put myself in uncomfortable
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situations and see how I can survive. But if you do it on purpose, what's the point? Because..
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Why don't you just go to El Salvador? Yeah. Just travel, but it's El Salvador, then you don't have to come, you really leave your
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airport, the best station you come to. Is it? Yeah. Okay, so the last challenge I did, right, I went to Spain and I set myself a budget
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for 100 pounds and see if I can get flight, hotel, accommodation, food, everything within
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the 100 pound and then I booked a flight to Spain, 20 pound flight and I got there and
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I had 80 pound and I spent 5 days there just travelling around just doing self-having well
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So now today I walked to the airport with my passport and with 50 pound and I said hmm
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where do I want to go I said let me just see where wherever I can go so I went to
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the desk I said um what the cheapest flight and then they said Budapest is 40 pound and I said okay it might be a bit of a challenge well I don mind a challenge and then I went online booked it and
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then if anything came up to like 48 pound and I was thinking oh should I book
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it like this is quite a bit close but then I love a challenge so I said I
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accept that's how I'm here and all this is just going with the flow of the
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universe I have no control over like anything I just see what the universe
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brings to me and what happens and I just experience it a moment oh I don't know
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what is but it sounds interested I have to research it well guys Stefan has
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offered me some spring rolls I would go through this but you don't need meat so
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yeah thank you so much I just want to thank you again for the spring rolls
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My belly was starting to feel it, I can't lie. Obviously you're a couchsurfing host
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Would you mind hosting me for a night? No. No? No? I got mine
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Oh, thank you so much. Wow. Okay, okay. Happy days. You are lucky because my flatmate is not home
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So I can give you this back. Ah, synchronicity. Synchronicity. Thank you, universe
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Thank you. Okay guys I'm trying Zalata. You dip the bread in the oil and then you dip it in the herbs
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Hmm. It might have some sesame seed in it. That's really good. Oh man you're spoiling me
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what a day day one is going all right day one's going all right i was a bit apprehensive this
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morning fear fear that's what it is the flow is when you believe that you are abundance
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and magnificence you are you are everything that you are until the doubt comes and says you're not
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That's the fear that, oh, it's going to be difficult. Oh, you haven't experienced that
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Oh, you haven't faced that. And it's the anticipation of it. Not actually doing it
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But when you surrender and know who you are, everything just conforms to work itself out
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Everything just flows as it otherwise would be before you doubt and then change it
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Okay. I didn't mean to give you guys a spiel. but yeah i'm embracing this challenge so far and i'm loving this experience that life is teaching me
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and i'm happy i'm able to share with you guys as well let's see what day two has to offer
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