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[chrisjorg]

Hello there, my name is Christian and I am 18 years old. I will be doing another interrail trip this year (once again alone!) and my budget is low so I thought I would go to somewhere in Eastern Europe.

If anyone has tried this I kindly ask them if they could advice me on certain destinations that could be characterized as:
Giving a good value for your money
relatively safe

also do you recommend a specific hostel you have been to?

[muzaika]

i came from poland, and i can frankly recomend it. we've got beautiful areas (sea, lakes, mountains, forests, whatever you want) and great historic attractions, as well as fantastic food/drinks and sociable people. If you have any specific questions, just write.

but i would also like to write about 2 contries i've visited last summer: Hungary and Romania. I spent there almost 4 weeks with my friend, both with very little budget. We were travelling mainly by hitchhiking sleeping in hostels, tent or in public park in Budapeszt [sic!], but i was the best holiday i could imagine. Romania is just beautiful, but you need some time to find it out. hitchhiking is very popular there, and you can get almost everywhere by it. we have never waited more than 10 minutes! you can spread yout tent everywhere, if it's not prohibited (so almost everywhere). but don't trust guide information of prices - after comming to EU everything is much more expensive (Prices in poland, hungary and romania are quite similar). romania is getting more and more european every year, it is not as poor as it was few years ago, you can easily comunicate by english, but unfortunatelly it is getting more and more commercial. in my personal opinion, it's the last moment to discover wild, folk romania, probably it won't exist in 3-4 years(
hungary - absolutly fanstastic, especially thanks to people, who are friendly, helpful, open-minded and very sociable - just wonderful. I've been in USA, Canada and 12 european contries before and I have never met so great people! Budapest is charming, fascinating place, when we arrived there, and tasted fabulos climate of this city, we just couldn't leave it. finally we stayed there for 5 days and it was absolutly not enough.
As the european capital Budapeszt it's not very expensive. we finded hostel 15 min by walk from centrum for 17 euro per person, beer costs about 1- 1,5 euro in pub. and there is no problems with drinking alcohol in public area. i don't recommend balaton lake - nothing interesting. in august - september you can visit some small vineyard on the south of country.