Jack aus Maine möchte mit seiner 66er C2 Europa bereisen - Tipps?

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Jack,

As Matthias pointed out, there are a couple of pitfalls you can fall into moneywise. One of the biggest is Cell Phone and Internet. If you carry an i-Phone in Europe and use your own SIM card with your personal phone number, calls will cost you a lot. The "roaming fee" of the telecom companies will add massive charges to your phone bill if you use it outside of the US. If you use the i-Phone's cell connection (3G, UMTS, EDGE etc.) to connect to the internet, these costs will sky rocket. There are two ways to avoid this:
1) Use free WLAN hotspots in Starbucks, some public places and of course the homes of all the people you're going to meet.
2) Do what Matthias mentioned: Buy a prepaid SIM card for your phone. But this will only save you money in the country it was issued. Once you cross the border to the next country, you'd have to do it all over again.

My advice: Use WLAN whenever possible, use Skype or another communication tool to make phone calls over the internet while you have free WLAN connection. Use the phone with your original SIM card only for emergencies, i.e. short phone calls and you're gonna be alright.

Hello Jack and the others,

wouldn´t it be the best, to get him a "prepaid" Telefone-Card like SIMIO (https://www.simyo.de/angebot/1b5e5531907...3godWydo9Q) or others and a "UMTS-Stick" with a monthly rate for EURO 24,95 or so for Jack´s Notebook here in Germany?
Option for the other Euro-country´s can be also booked and will cost EURO 4,99 for 7 days for the Phone.

Then he would pay only the normal cost´s here in Germany.

These two items can be reloaded with these Vouchers that you can get at Gas-station´s, Lidl or other Schopping-Malls.

If he needs a extra Handy/Cellular-phone, i have enough laying around here at home.

If he would getting started in Netherlands, he could pick it up the next day driving by on his way to Hamburg, because i live right near the Autobahn in Bremen/Brinkum.

With this Card´s these upcomming cost´s would have a countable number, right?

Sincerly
Friedel