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Surviving on £100 in Portugal - Day 1
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Mar 27, 2025
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all right so I'm currently in Lisbon Portugal for the next three days and I
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only have a hundred pounds to spend hotel travel food everything hundred
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pounds wish me luck all right so I've just left the airport and the train
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station is just bang right outside bloody perfect all right I need to get
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into the central so let's see how much this is all right now compared to other
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places it doesn't look too bad 50 cents for the card and 1 euro 50 for one single journey so
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in total 2 euros to get into the central happy days usually it'll cost you about seven to nine
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euros 100 pounds in euros is about 114 euros we minus two euros from it and we're down to 112 for
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the next three days my mobile data doesn't have jurisdiction in portugal i think they said they're
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they're gonna charge me five pound a day if I use it so I'm thinking is it worth
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getting one of these or should I just piggyback off Wi-Fi's all around the
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city that's gonna be more stressful but I'm saving money alright so I've been told 2gig will last me one week 2gig for one week and it's only 5 euros so why
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not it saves the hassle of running around looking for Wi-Fi alright so we're
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up and running and that brings our total down to 107 euros so I have no idea where
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actually going I think I'm just gonna head to the central and figure my way out
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from there alright so we're in the central I'm gonna walk around explore the
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city for a bit find somewhere to sit down do some research find a hostel or
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somewhere to stay tonight and then we'll go from there alright so they've got a
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Christmas thing going on there loads of stalls with random stuff they're selling
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and foods and over here there's like a bunch of people dressing as elves
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Okay so I was just walking past I saw this lady knitting names on paper
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Hi. How much is it? It's free. What's your name? What? I asked her how much it was
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So girls it's free. Here's the shop. You can come check it out if you're ever in Lisbon
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Thank you so much. Thank you. Have a good one. All right, so I've just got into the the edge of the coast. I think it's the edge
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of the coast and from here you can literally just walk into the river. Now
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I don't know if you can see but over there in the distance is the statue of
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Christ. The original one is in Brazil but they've also got one here. Right now I'm
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logging around this heavy backpack. I want to find a hustle to drop it then I
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I can really explore get some food etc the whole lot. Alright so I saw something interesting the
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sexiest WC in the world. Now my understanding of a WC is a toilet water closet but um
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let's see what it is. So apparently it is a toilet but it's closed now since the pandemic
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It's a funny toilet it's got loads of colors and maybe interesting things to see that wouldn't
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usually be in a toilet Alright so I just having a look and hostels here are reasonably cheap They have some interesting names though There a place called G Hostel for 17 euros
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There's another place called We Hate F***ing Tourists. Now I don't know if it means f***ing
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It just says F. It could be friendly. It could be funny. It could be... I think it's f***ing
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The prices here are reasonably cheap. I just need to find somewhere that doesn't hate me
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Wanna guess which one I went for? The ones that hate me. It's a cycle of life. Deal with it
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Hi, Zee. The reception is downstairs, but I have a legacy room here
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Alright. I'm just actually really curious as to why you hate tourists
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Man, have you met tourists? They suck. No, I'm joking. We have two hostels. We have one called
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We Love Tourists and then the owner wanted to open a second one and he opened this one
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The We Love Tourists is in this main touristic area of the city. So it's good because
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you're walking distance from the main monuments but also like it's much louder, the things nearby
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are more expensive because it's for tourists. All right, so I've just booked a room. Now online
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it said 17 euros but once you add city tax and fees comes up to 20 euros so minus 20 euros from
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our budget or from our total and we have 87 euros left now i did find cheaper hostels for about 15
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euros but i reckon compared to the luxurious feel of this this is well worth it just the aesthetics
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the look of everything, the feel, the ambiance. So I mean, hey, first day was splurging
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It's only five euros difference, but you want to stay somewhere comfortable. You want to stay
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somewhere where you just feel nice, even though the name is Behave Tourist. I think this is like probably the best place or like the best hostel you can get in the whole city
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So this is your space for storage, then the balcony, then the key. Just amazing. It looks
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beautiful magnifique check out the view so definitely good decision in terms of
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hostel I'm very happy about this now I'm gonna walk around explore the city get
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some food see if there's anything to do this place is just next-level gorgeous
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it's got the same cascading buildings like in Turkey and I just random parks
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around and like paintings and like the whole place is really beautiful it really
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You know one thing I've noticed there's just like wildlife. I don't know if it's necessarily wildlife
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But it's just random chickens walking around everywhere. It's almost like back home. This is back home. I'll tell you
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Places here are just gorgeously Delicious and visually appealing. I love it. Okay, I'll just bounce over. Let's see how much the prices are for a meal
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Okay, so prices weren't too bad for the look of the place around 8 to 11 euros, which is pretty decent actually
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The only problem is they don have a lot of vegan options on the menu They had one veggie burger and right now I don really feel like having a burger but I found somewhere else And they seem to have a lot more vegan options
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Price is slightly higher, but hey You get what you pay for, right? So this is the vegan jacca balls
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It's got crunchy marinated organic jacca balls onions, one tomato sauce grated vegan cheese, fresh basil and toasted focaccia
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all for 12 euros 50 which isn't bad at all now the presentation looks amazing let's see how it tastes
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i must say it tastes as you'd expect rich delicious tomato sauce crunchy jackfruit
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now the jackfruit is well seasoned soft on the inside crunchy on the outside and the focaccia
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focaccia is warm and fluffy and goes well with the tomato sauce which has extra flavors
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from the vegan cheese. Hey, one. Here's the takeaway
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Thank you so much. Oh, wow. That was a meal and a half
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Then I've got the other half in a to-go box. That was absolutely delicious
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Now, the meal was 12 euros 50 plus a bottle of water for 2 euros
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So, our total 14 euros 50. Now remind us that from our total and we have 72 euros 50 left
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We are blowing through the budget at an unprecedented rate. I don't know how the next three days are going to go
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Genuinely. Right now I'm just going to head back to the hostel. Take a breather
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Relax a bit. I just need to make sure I'm not spending too much money. This is probably going to be my dinner
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Because the rate the money is going, I don't know if it's going to last. So I need to start being conservative
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About, about it. I'm Mel, okay. I know, I know. I've got my bed, bottom bunk
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Got my dinner on my bed already. So right now I'm gonna freshen up, head back out and see what else there is to do
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So this is really random and spontaneous. I met a bunch of guys at the hostel
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They booked a cab and we're heading somewhere. oh okay okay so we're off to Lane Tower
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alright we're here right in time for the sunset this is the mini version of what we've come to see
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alright so we're just at the park Josh has got the drone up
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and again some footage of the castle and boats and just the landscape
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Okay, so apparently there have been tons of dead jellyfish that have washed up on the shore
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Here they are, look at them, tons of them! So this is the map of when Portuguese set out to discover the world and when hell broke loose for the people and countries of which they discovered This is where it all started
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Alright so we're thinking of grabbing scooters and riding to a market where we
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can get some food. We've come to a pastry shop to get some
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original Portuguese pastry I'm not sure what Portuguese pastry is but I think
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it's a lot to do with maybe like cream egg filling type pastries something like
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this alright we're heading back to the hostel it's been a long and eventful day
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alright so we just go back to the hostel then quickly hit the gym and then
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head out to the barcode. Alright, all freshened up. Gonna have my leftover lunch
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for dinner. Guys, I made some friends
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and then hers i know i don't want to listen she doesn't want to be on youtube
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alright so we're about to head to pop crawl we've got the crew and then we're going to meet
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another set of guys from the other hostel then we head and go pop crawling
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alright so right now we've gone into the other hostel we love
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effing tourists. We're about to gather the lot from here and then head to
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Head to the pub group. Okay, we've reached the first bar numero uno. This is the crew. We're about to go in and see what it's like
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And we're off to pub number two Okay, so now we're off to the
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fourth location which is the club. We've been to three bars and now we're off to the club
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The streets are packed full of people. You can tell it's a Saturday
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night. Everyone's out, drinking, having a good time. The time is currently 3.52am
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Heading back to the hostel. It's been a long day. I'm gonna call it. If you like this video, give it a big thumbs up. If you're new to the channel, hit the subscribe button. Hit the notification, share it with all your friends. And I'll see you in the next one
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