• 1. Booking at simple hotels or pensions. The idea was to book in hotels of lower categories. At the beginning I was a bit concerned about this because, honestly, before I never tried any hotels below 3 stars.
• 2. One trip after another. Also, I decided going on a trip-by-trip basis. The reason was that based on my trip expertise, sometimes, for some unexpected reason, I might have to make some booking changes, such as last minute changes or little sudden accidents that may occur, like for example... confusing the time of departure in one airport with the time of arrival in another airport (it happened to me once :) If these kind of situations ever happen, then basically means you will need to pay extra. To minimize these potential issues as much as possible and getting more cost efficient, I decided much better if I booked on the fly. This could be a source of headaches sometimes because some airlines will automatically put you in a threat list for security reasons and if you did not account for this situation you may have some unexpected issues such as missing your flight but i decided to try anyways in order to save some money

3. More walking, less lazying around. Third saving decision I took ... I would do less easy traveling (by systematically taking taxis or buses, for example) and change this for a more healthy habit choice such as walking instead. This seemed to be a key decision because, keep it in mind, I also wanted to lose weight and get healthier, and it was clear that the combination of conveyance together with little activity was not a wise way to get rid of my fats. The other reason had nothing to do with being fat or thin. It has to do with the fact that

"you can not really enjoy the places you visit unless you fully integrate into those places" 

Sometimes we might feel a little bit terrified because we do not know well the new place we are visiting or because, for some reason, maybe we are in a rush and we prefer to get in a taxi, but for sure in my next trip I would be no rush (I quit my job already so I was stress-free), and after all the life experiences I had, I was not scared of anything at all, so I had really no good reasons to use taxi as my only means of conveyance and I made my mind " I will try to avoid it as much as I could ".

Furthermore, I noticed that over-abusing taxi sometimes may raise new issues such as potential cheating by the time we are going to pay the bills or situations such as paying from very little-to-lots extra because the taxi driver go around instead of straight, or faster meters, for example. On this note, I must say the taxi issue seems to be pandemic though. I am not making a point that may only happen when you travel abroad, actually it may happen anywhere even in our own country.

• 4. Local foods. And point #4, similarly to the recommendation I made earlier about trying to integrate yourself more into the place you are visiting by,