how to get along with life..

after completing 6 weeks and 3 being in the apartment that you finally have – things start getting normalised and you start getting used to the life around the new town – or if you don’t, you should find a way to get around ASAP…

for me weekdays are passing as :

• go to work
• come back home
• do some grocery shopping if and when needed
• cook at home or go out to dinner with some friends around
• come back home watch a movie and go to sleep..

but unfortunately, if you are an out-going person like I am, this doesn’t work for long time and / or you get literally bored! so that s why you have to keep planning for the weekends and not only cities close by..

so today I have spent couple of hours on planning some long weekends – unfortunately I couldn’t get good deals on them because I was dependent on other people who has already arrange.. but in UK – there literally is an expensive and a cheap way of doing everything!

to start with .. one of the most expensive things goes there – trains!

trains are unbelievably expensive in UK – which makes everything hard, going to another city or the airport etc.. But there are some ticks & tricks for trains as well :

• get a railcard – most of the railcards have up to 30% discounts on all off peak trains / everywhere close and near London. to get a rail ticket, visit national rail card ‘s website. none of the offers provide discounts for the peak time – so if you are peak time traveler – the best choice is to go with seasonal cards if it is  routine.
• get cashback options – there are couple of different ones on google,  however I found out about these as train tickets led to me cashback for 20 GBP for approx 10% off on my next purchase.. So i went with cashback.completesavings.co.uk
• flight tickets – unlikely the common fact that are known- the  flight tickets are not that cheap within EU. there are some cheap airlines ( like Ryanair and EasyJet) however the issue is that they do not fly from the proper airports in London! they only fly from the small ones in London – which makes the journey a torture in terms of getting to and from the airport and also the fee’s almost even up as you include all the experience itself..

well today – I have planned an Edinburgh trip and one to  Madrid!

lets see how they go 🙂