Melbourne on a Budget: How to visit the city with no money
Australia is expensive, that’s a fact. Melbourne is one of the most expensive places on this huge island, and also one of the places where you can’t get away with a lot of money saving techniques that help out when road tripping or staying in other parts of Australia (like using WikiCamps to find free campsites). But what if I told you that Melbourne on a budget is possible? That I survived nearly two weeks without spending hardly any money in Melbourne? It’s not the most enjoyable way to experience the capital of Victoria, but it can be done. I find that the best way to look at staying in cities on a budget is to split up requirements into categories, and then look how I can get these for free or extremely cheap. This is what I did when I hardly spent any money in New York and did Dublin on a budget in previous years. Even in notoriously expensive Hong Kong, I still managed to save some money by staying at the unfavourable and allegedly unsafe Chungking Mansions. But Melbou...