Backpackers planning to communicate with like-minded people using the online Twitter service could benefit from
cheap travel insurance.
Backpacker.com reports that British traveller Paul Smith has travelled halfway across the world through Amsterdam, Paris and a number of American cities, by making friends and contacts through the Twitter messaging service.
Twitter enables people to share their everyday experiences in small, text-like entries and can be used to find a guide or a hiking partner for a part of the world that feels unfamiliar, or by making contact with someone who can offer their back garden as a campsite for a night or two.
Networks can be rapidly established, potentially leading to cheap travel and a host of new friends to made along the way.
Many backpackers choose to stay in hostels or other forms of budget accommodation while they travel and they have the option of buying
online travel insurance.
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