Travel Contemplations June 12

Travel planning can be such a pain in the buttinski some days. We spent the first half of the day going over and over and over our plans (which we were making as we went along). We still have 4ish weeks before C leaves, and we have to have him in London by the 4th of July for his flight the 5th. We can honestly look back and wish we had stayed longer in each city so far, but we were terrified from Swizerland, and made hasty plans on sleep-deprived and hungry brains just trying to escape the bloody expensive Swiss towns. We had made tentative plans to go to Innsbrook and another town or two, but we spent over 250 euro just traveling through, so to us even looking at something meant hemorrhaging money. We should have spent another day in Salzburg for sure, and maybe even Prague. But we're on the way to Munich, then Berlin, then Hamburg and then a hop to Ireland for a week and a half or so before cruising to London, where C's flight leaves from. Well, we're mostly sure on that last bit (the Ireland part, not the flight part). Air and I will hop a plane the same day to the Continent again and head to Denmark to meet up with an old school friend, then onwards. After C leaves, we still have a month and a half out here; I'm excited but a little scared of just how much we're spending getting from place to place.
We didn't buy eurorail passes because we were training between 9 countries or so, and the passes are fairly restrictive (and expensive!) but now we've been almost sad we didn't. Almost. I mean, we've spent almost $1000USD on planes and trains alone, not including city transport. But we planned for it, we're budgeting well enough, and we're averaging better cost than we did last year. We figured out that we ate out a lot more in England-- with four people (two boys, and boys are always hungry!) we felt more compelled to eat around. Kebap and food from stalls etc, they all add up fast.This year we've been trying to get hostels with kitchens, cooking our own food for the most part and drinking water that we bottle from taps and drinking fountains wherever we go. It is rare for us to buy anything to drink, and only in desperation will we break down and buy something. With an electric kettle we can have hot water for tea or coffee, we have instant noodles and seasonings to make quick soup. We supplement the noodles with fresh items from wherever we are, fresh breads and cheeses and meats in sandwiches (even sometimes veg!).
We seem to be doing well enough and no one but C has gotten even the sniffles. We take multivitamins most days to get our daily dose of healthy, and we eat a lot of apples and oranges, which are great take along foods. Yay for self contained foodstuffs!