02.17.09
With a new speed
After some starter hiccups when switching to a new service provider, the Internet at my dad’s place is now working 4 times faster, when we are paying less than we did before.
Hopefully, I will switch to another service provider at my house too. I will be choosing an even higher speed there, and we will only be paying about 10 € each month (for a speed of 10Mb/s), while now we are paying about 30 € (for a speed of 1Mb/s).
In a year, we will save about 240 €, which is half the price of my trip to London this spring, so I can say I’m pretty happy with my decision.
With a brand new Internet connection, I think it’s also time to finally buy a new domain (maybe I can use part of the money we will save) and move this blog to my own server, as well as create a nice enough design, so I’ll practice my web designing skills, after I just left them lying there for almost a year. Better go and look for some inspiration!
12.12.08
Cheap plain tickets
Because I’m obsessed with traveling, I spend aproximately an hour every day (or, if I put another way: 5 hours or so a week, mostly during the weekend) just cheeking out places I could go to, hostels there and ways to get there, travel guides and photos of other people that traveled around the world (send me some if you have any =P). Since I have no real money to travel outiside Europe (I don’t even have money to travel in Europe, but nevermind that, one can dream and hope and has birthday parties to collect some money from relatives) I have untill now mostly checked-out train connections and prices. But a friend has asked me, if I would be interest in going to St. Petersburg with her this summer (on which I replied: “Hell yeah!” or something like that anyway), and it’s a bit long way to travel by train, so I started checking out cheap flights (with help of this website). And the results are amazing! These are just a few I found, and the prices includes all taxes and charges! Of course you have to check the dates a little and find cheaper ones, but now somehow, traveling long distances doesn’t seem so impossible anymore.
A return ticket from:
- Ljubljana to London: about 70 €
- Ljubljana to Prague: about 100 €
- Vienna to St. Peterburg : about 200 € (+58 €*)
- Vienna to Helsinki: about 150 € (+58 €*)
- Vienna to New York: about 500 € (+58 €*)
*for a train ticket from Ljubljana to Vienna and back
