I’m pretty sure we’re all agreed that trav­el­ling the world is a great thing to do. And when you can do it on a fru­gal bud­get (not a cheap one), it’s even better!

That makes Plonkee’s lat­est post, 21 Resources for Bud­get Travel great in every respect — links galore!

take the train, not the plane — pos­si­bly the most civilised form of trans­port avail­able. I love tak­ing the train when I’m on hol­i­day. My cur­rent favourite trip was from Budapest to Vienna, so cheap and so easy. One of these days I want to travel on the Trans-Siberian express from Moscow to Beijing.

My added tip? If you do con­sider using the train — even for a moment — you must check out The Man in Seat Sixty-One; the great­est site on the topic of inter­con­ti­nen­tal train travel (I have men­tioned this site before).