I want to travel the worlds festivals

It's a nice idea, but won't always work. :) The first festival that I want to go to (that I haven't been to yet) is in Glasgow Scotland in January! It's Celtic Connections. On the plus side air fares and accommodation is likely lower the last two weeks of January!

I think you need to start with the festivals that you're interested in and then check costs and timing. Of course Scotland's "other" big festival in in August in Edinburgh. Now, I know that prices are higher in Edinburgh during that time. Another approach is to go for smaller festivals: Perth Amber Festival, Tarbert Music Festival, and the Tiree Festival. I think that the Tiree festival nearly got washed away this year!

But back to following the light, think about Ornkey's International Festival in June. Lots of lovely light! Of course, keeping up with the contrariness you could slip away from the Connections Festival and go to Up Helly AA in Shetland on the last Tuesday in January.

Can't wait to see what else is suggested.

Pam

In the "Explore Europe" section of this website you can find links to festivals and events for all the major and minor cities in Europe (start with a country then look at a particular city and then look under the "Plan" tab). I would start by looking at where you want to go (somewhere warm) and then see if you can work a schedule to hit a bunch of them in a row. It will be time consuming to plan, but worth it if that's what you really want to do.

Probably the absolute cheapest you could get away with is $50-75 per day (not including air travel or long distance train travel). This should cover food, basic lodging, basic local transport and cost of experiences (museum entrances, festival spending money, etc, etc.). Incidentally, adjusted for inflation, this is roughly the same costs as the famous "Europe on 5 dollars a day" from 1957. About 10 years ago I did 3 months averaging $60/day and had a great time. Anything less than this and you won't have a good time.

Planning, planning, planning then more planning is a good way to not blow your money/time. What I mean by that is don't just plan for one possibility but research and plan multiple possibilities that what if things go awry you have multiple contingencies to fallback on. One sure fire way to burn through a lot of cash is to have to buy you way our of unexpected and inconvenient situations, reduce the chance of those happening and you'll save money.

Might be good to attend some local travel classes or meet up with a local travel group for some advice.

DJ

Without knowing which countries/cities/festivals you have in mind and how long you plan to travel it's pretty hard to give advice on how best to do it and how much it would cost. Another poster gave you good advice about effective ways to not blow your money/time away. Planning, planning, planning and more planning. Research the main festivals in Europe and decide which ones you want to try to get to, then see how they line up itinerary wise and time of year wise. Then you can post more detailed questions about particular festivals, routes, or when to go. Especially for cost estimates, where you want to go, when you want to go, and how you want to travel (hostels, hotels, b&b's, rental car or trains, etc.), will determine how much you might have to spend. Traveling solo will cost a bit more than the per person cost of more than one person traveling together and sharing things like hotel rooms and rental cars, etc.