Khao Aur Khilao budget by Arindam Chaudhuri
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This isn’t exactly armchair travel we’re recommending. Peter Moore, an irrepressible travel enthusiast – having charted one short of hundred countries so far – and author of books including "Vroom By The Sea", "The Full Montezuma", and "The Wrong Way Home" – proves that perfect holidays can be had for a pittance, if you went to some virtual ‘sites’ first…
I just spent the weekend in a narrowboat in Wiltshire, England. The boat was moored on a canal on a lonely stretch of farmland in Stanton St Bernard. I had cows for neighbours and a clear view of a giant white horse carved in the green hills when I woke up in the morning. I ate gammon, eggs and chips for breakfast and spent my evenings huddled around a campfire on the bank, swapping local tales and cider in the cold, clear night with my hosts Mitch and Kristy.
It was one of the most incredible travel experiences I’ve had on my journey around the UK – a rare moment where I got to commune with the English countryside. And do you want to know the best thing about it? All it cost me was a flagon of cider that I bought cheaply from a farmer across the way.
I found Mitch and Kristy through www.couchsurfing.com, a web site that provides a safe forum for people with a spare sofa to offer other people somewhere to stay. It was started in 2004 by Casey Fenton, a young American software programmer looking for somewhere cheap to lay his head in Reykjavik. Now users create profiles that include photos, interests, languages spoken and a description of their couch. Both hosts and guests rate each other – just like sellers and buyers on eBay – making the sleeping on a total stranger’s couch a somewhat safer concept.
At last count the site offered 1,017,429 couches across 232 countries and 55,911 cities. There are four in Bhutan, 17 in Afghanistan and 15 in Libya. More traditional destinations like the US, Australia and Europe offer the choice of thousands.
It’s not always a couch. It can be a spare room in a house where the children have left home for university. The granny flat out back that isn’t used any more. Or in Mitch and Kristy’s case, a bed at the back of a recently restored narrowboat. The ‘couches’ range across all levels of comfort from a basic futon in the lounge room to something altogether more amenable, even luxurious.
Travellers who use www.couchsurfing.com have quickly discovered that it offers more than just an affordable bed for the night. Mitch and Kristy proved to be willing and knowledgeable guides to the local area, taking me to fairy trees where people tied ribbons to the branches for good luck and to hilltop tombs where ancient Pagan kings were buried, introducing me a side of the Vale of Pewsey that I would have otherwise missed.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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This isn’t exactly armchair travel we’re recommending. Peter Moore, an irrepressible travel enthusiast – having charted one short of hundred countries so far – and author of books including "Vroom By The Sea", "The Full Montezuma", and "The Wrong Way Home" – proves that perfect holidays can be had for a pittance, if you went to some virtual ‘sites’ first…
I just spent the weekend in a narrowboat in Wiltshire, England. The boat was moored on a canal on a lonely stretch of farmland in Stanton St Bernard. I had cows for neighbours and a clear view of a giant white horse carved in the green hills when I woke up in the morning. I ate gammon, eggs and chips for breakfast and spent my evenings huddled around a campfire on the bank, swapping local tales and cider in the cold, clear night with my hosts Mitch and Kristy.It was one of the most incredible travel experiences I’ve had on my journey around the UK – a rare moment where I got to commune with the English countryside. And do you want to know the best thing about it? All it cost me was a flagon of cider that I bought cheaply from a farmer across the way.
I found Mitch and Kristy through www.couchsurfing.com, a web site that provides a safe forum for people with a spare sofa to offer other people somewhere to stay. It was started in 2004 by Casey Fenton, a young American software programmer looking for somewhere cheap to lay his head in Reykjavik. Now users create profiles that include photos, interests, languages spoken and a description of their couch. Both hosts and guests rate each other – just like sellers and buyers on eBay – making the sleeping on a total stranger’s couch a somewhat safer concept.
At last count the site offered 1,017,429 couches across 232 countries and 55,911 cities. There are four in Bhutan, 17 in Afghanistan and 15 in Libya. More traditional destinations like the US, Australia and Europe offer the choice of thousands.
It’s not always a couch. It can be a spare room in a house where the children have left home for university. The granny flat out back that isn’t used any more. Or in Mitch and Kristy’s case, a bed at the back of a recently restored narrowboat. The ‘couches’ range across all levels of comfort from a basic futon in the lounge room to something altogether more amenable, even luxurious.
Travellers who use www.couchsurfing.com have quickly discovered that it offers more than just an affordable bed for the night. Mitch and Kristy proved to be willing and knowledgeable guides to the local area, taking me to fairy trees where people tied ribbons to the branches for good luck and to hilltop tombs where ancient Pagan kings were buried, introducing me a side of the Vale of Pewsey that I would have otherwise missed.
For more articles, Click on IIPM Article.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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