Whether you are in high school or finding your independence in college, nothing changes your outlook on life or helps you find your identity more than traveling. When you are young the world awaits you. It will take you outside your comfort zone and transform who will become. Those that have traveled the world or even lived outside their own country and experience a different language and culture often never regret one minute of it. You will spend the majority of your adult life working or taking care of your family so there is no better time to explore the world than when you are young. Few places are as easy to travel around for a student as Europe. Rich cultures filled with history are short distances from each other and mass transportation between countries has never been easier.
In most cases you can travel from one country to the next, crossing borders and hardly noticing it until you get Work in Europe off the train and find suddenly things look just a little different. In the not so distance past a traveler of Europe would have been required to obtain several different visas pertaining to each country they planned to visit, not to mention having to change currency every time you crossed a border as well. However, with the nearly universal currency throughout Europe now being the Euro and most nations within the E.U. now allowing unrestricted travel across borders, traveling all over Europe is a cinch. As one looks back on one's life, unrealized dreams are at the top of people's regrets, so if you dream of backpacking across Europe, there is no better time than now. Here are some tips as well as the ultimate places to explore while you backpack across Europe.
