Extreme budget traveler: Leon Logothetis

Talk about traveling on the cheap. Leon Logothetis has made it a point to—on practically nothing.

He has circled the United Kingdom on £5 a day, and made his way from Times Square to the Hollywood sign on $5 a day. And beginning January 25, in the third season of the show that documents these trips—”Amazing Adventures of a Nobody”—he journeys from Paris to Moscow on just 5 euros a day.

Frugality is definitely the theme of his travels, so it makes sense that the New York Times’ Frugal Traveler, Matt Gross, interviewed Leon recently. In the interview, Leon says that the best place to travel cheaply is Eastern Europe (specifically Poland, Lithuania, Latvia). And he tells about his best deal ever: getting a 3-star hotel that’s normally £120/night for £1.47.

I haven’t seen his Fox Reality Channel show, but it seems to be half about low-cost travel—since $5 doesn’t get you very much—and half about creative ways to ask for money or get around using it. It’s hard to gauge how much of his good fortune is due to a cameraman and crew joining him. But I have to imagine that if any of us did it, we’d get a lot of the same goodwill that he finds. Past trips of my own have reinforced that people—both locals and fellow travelers—are by and large generous wherever you go.

I’d be curious: has anybody here seen past episodes of “Amazing Adventures of a Nobody?”