Europe on a shoestring budget

Mumbai, May 21 -- Paella in Madrid, skydiving in Valencia and partying in Ibiza. What sounds like the script of a big budget film, is actually an itinerary created by four college students for their backpacking trip across Spain. "I've been abroad before, but with my parents. This is something we planned ourselves. We'll live in hostels and traipse about through a whole country, living some ...

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