r/SlowTravelEurope

if I’m only going to visit only one interior out of all the many buildings in Budapest, what should it be and why?

Looking for the places that never would have made your first-trip itinerary. What took you a while to find?

I’m planning to spend a couple of months traveling around Europe while working remotely, and I’d be interested to hear from people who have done something similar.

I’ll be working 40–48 hours per week, usually from 3 PM to 11 PM, so I’ll have my mornings and early afternoons free to explore. I’m not looking to move around every few days — I’d rather stay in each place long enough to actually experience it while keeping my work schedule manageable.

My budget is around €1,800 per month for everything, including accommodation, food, transportation and activities. I’m mainly interested in Central Europe and was thinking of starting with Hungary and Czechia. For example, I could spend about a month in Budapest and another month in Czechia, splitting my time between Prague, Brno, Olomouc, Plzeň and Český Krumlov.

For accommodation, I’m considering monthly Airbnb rentals, Booking, local rental platforms or similar options. I don’t need anything fancy or completely private. The only things that are important to me are stable internet and a proper desk where I can work. I’m completely fine with shared accommodation and having other people around — I don’t need complete peace and quiet.

For those who have traveled this way while working full-time, how did you find the experience? Is a budget of around €1,800/month realistic for Central Europe if you stay longer in each place rather than constantly moving? I’d also be interested in hearing how people usually find reasonably priced monthly accommodation.

I’d especially appreciate experiences from people who have spent longer periods in Budapest or Czech cities while working remotely.

Books, documentaries, podcasts, blogs... or do you prefer to arrive with very little planned?

If you've been, I'm interested in hearing your perspective on which one and why.

Traveling as US Citziens (with spouse) to the EU, specifically to the Netherlands, Switzerland, and France for a total period of 2 weeks - our passports are all updated, do we need anything else to sign up for or bring with us? Do we need to get a VISA or download some type of applications on our phone or fill something out?

Mine isn't luggage.

It isn't noise-canceling headphones.

It's actually a really good tinted sunscreen.

I travel carry-on only most of the time, and having something that's SPF and light coverage means I pack one less product and can still look put together after a flight.

What's your unexpected travel MVP?

Not looking for a list of famous names. Tell me the bakery and what you specifically go there for.

Not a special-occasion restaurant. Somewhere you’d return to or cross neighbourhoods for kind of place. I'm not interested in the most well-known places that everyone tends to have on their list, but rather places that make for a really good lunch while spending the day walking around Paris.

Slow traveling through Spain, what are your must do's in Barcelona? Also, where are some great places to eat?

I love finding shops that still feel very specific to Paris. Food, stationery, books, ceramics, homewares, antiques- anything really. What’s worth making a detour for beyond the usual suspects of Merci, Marin Montagut, Astier de Villatte.

Mine is London.

Everyone talks about visiting in summer, but honestly my favorite time is autumn.

The parks change color, it’s cool enough to walk everywhere, cafés become ridiculously cozy, and somehow the city feels slower.

Curious what city everyone thinks is actually improved by going during shoulder season.

The EES experience keeps on giving. Having registered with a human MULTIPLE times now, including with the same country more than once, today’s Florence experience was a headscratcher.

1. Got off the tarmac bus, ALL directed straight to non EU queue if you had a UK passport

2. Queue is massive as one person is doing the passports

3. EU passengers go through the EU gates

4. EU gates go quiet after a few mins.

5. Person supervising the long queue occasionally unhooks the tensa barrier and asks 4 people to use EU gates (all British as was watching passports)

6. Eventually I was one of the lucky ones to go to the EU gate. I went through EU gate 1 with ease with a passport scan and photo, and then a second automated gate, which did the same check, and was authorised and walked straight through.

7. Why couldn’t I just use the EU gate in the first place?

8. Why is this all so inconsistent?

9. And why oh why do they just rock up to the UK and use our gates without any of this nonsense? (And a bunch of other countries too).

If anyone can explain ANY of the above, I’d be really grateful 😂

EDIT: to be clear, I’m registering with a human every single time and am never able to use the gates Hi. I’m sure this is answered elsewhere, apologies. I’m a very frequent traveller to Europe. So far I’ve submitted my fingerprints and photo in Malta twice, France, Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic twice, Spain three times. I’ve only managed to use e gates once at that was at St Pancras! There are now multiple entries of my face and fingertips 😂 It’s not me going to the wrong queue, I’m going to the only queue. What is going on with this system? Has anyone registered and then actually managed to use the system?!

I've met people who plan entire trips around gardens, Roman ruins, food, trains, photography, wine, Christmas markets...

What's the interest that keeps influencing where you go? Give an example of those places, please.