The original post: /r/travel by /u/Jam39813 on 2024-11-12 22:45:12.

I am Canadian 23M planning to solo travel and live in the UK or Europe next year in mid July 2025 after travelling for a few weeks with family. Which will be mostly Dublin and parts of both Republic and N Ireland, parts of Scotland close to or in Edinburgh, also York and London.

After that I am planning a Contiki trip around Europe for end of July that is about a month long, but after that I don’t know what else I want to do apart from visiting heritage railways, the tattoo festival and just roaming cities. I also plan on getting a youth mobility visa that the UK offers. Budget is in the works but about 5-7g Cdn is the range depending on visas and other expenses before trip. I do have family who live in the UK (mostly in towns north of Edinburgh and some in London), but are second or third cousins and don’t want to heavily rely on them. (will stay with them for a few days at most but nothing more than a week).

Looking on advice about groups and stuff to do. I enjoy historical (any era before Cold War, especially early industrial, Victorian, World Wars periods.), cultural, and nature stuff.

Major countries apart from Ireland and UK I would like to visit are: Portugal Spain Italy, Austria , Hungry, Czechia, Switzerland, Benelux region, Berlin, Germany, major cities in Poland, Scandinavia, France . Balkans are a bit iffy for me at the moment (do want do a Romanian/Moldova or a Greek trip as well as visit Istanbul at some point)

Also advice on accommodations would be great. Also any idea on finding work over there would be great also ( I am looking on job board and UK government site) I am willing do labour and kitchen work but also looking into transportation and admin/econ sectors. I have a major in Business admin and minor in economics. Also what visas I need for Europe apart from the new one they are introducing next year.

Also if their are better reddits/blogs for this, send them my way please!

Ps. All of this doesn’t have to be one trip, it can be multiple and later in my life. Just want get some ideas of whats possible and whats not.