hi. i'm planning on travling through westsern europe from march-june. i've done a lot of research and have read a lot of travel guides, but was hoping to get information from personal travel experiences. i've been planning things out city by city and was hoping if anyone had specific hostel recos, specific restaurants, information like, if you're here you must see this, and if you're running out of time, you can skip this. i'm going to the major cities, but want to take the time and stop in smaller cities to get the more native feel and a stronger sense of the culture and people, so any recos would be great. i'm going to head from paris to madrid, madrid to portugal, back into spain, up to the french riviera and all through italy. my city list in italy is very similar to carisia's, so any information would be great. also, i'm 28, a single female, traveling alone and on a tight budget. any thoughts/information you want to share would be greatly appreciated. thanks. erin
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