The Most Expensive Part of Traveling.. Airfare

I have recently discovered this website called skyscanner.com, and it has some amazing features. For one you can look at the entire year and see when it is the cheapest to fly to any given destination! Not only that but you can look at the cheapest city or country to fly into on a whole continent! Pretty awesome, especially when you are traveling on a budget like I am. That is the website I used to buy my tickets to and from Europe for my backpacking trip this summer! Click here to see the website for yourself!

With love, G

Bucket List: Italy & Greece

Me - "Okay so in about three weeks I won't have a job,"
Sister - "AWESOME! Lets go on the backpacking trip to Europe that we have always wanted to go on!"
Me - "(pause, considering rational things like money, and rent, ehh f*%! it)... I'm in!"

And that's how it happened, we bought a plane ticket to Rome and three weeks later a plane ticket back to the US from Athens, other than that we don't know what the heck we are doing... (If you have any insider tips on things most tourists don't see let me know!) 
So needless to say, I have been obsessively looking at photos of the Greek Isles, and other islands in the Mediterranean, and well... there is no shortage of them. When my sister and I were deciding where we wanted to go and Greece came up, the first thing I though of (as any true 20 something girl should) was Sisterhood and the Traveling Pants. I want to find my Kostas Dunas! Oh and you can bet I will be jumping off that same dock that Alexis Bledel, as Lena Kaligaris, jumped off of in Santori, "can you turn my black roses red!"                           
Anyway... so I will be traveling through these two countries with my little sister. We have never backpacked before, and I have only stayed in a hostel once (and right when I walked in the bar tender puked on the ground and the hostel manager dropped a towel over it and went to bed, good first impression). Needless to say, I am a little nervous, our plan is to bring one of those plastic bed sheets parents put on mattresses for their little kids when they wet the bed, and to put it over the mattress in the hostels and then to lay our sleeping bags on top of that, hopefully eliminating the chance of bedbugs or lice or just sleeping on a bed someone just had a "really good time in", yikes!   

If you have any tips please let me know! :) 

With love, G