Book hostels with kitchens, buy food at grocers ,, its one way to stretch your teeny tiny budget. Check out hostel websites,, HI is a good one.
Everytime you move it costs you,, I would choose fewer places. Alternate city stays with country/beach stays( I did a three month trip when I was 23 and found we really needed some down time,,we partied pretty hard sometimes, and it really helped to have some quieter places mixed in with the lot of high impact site intensive city stays)

Booking hostels is a good idea, theres always a room somewhere, but the scummyier places are most likely have vacancies last minute in summer ,, the great places book up,,

Let's Go Europe again is IMO the very best source of info on hostels - zillions of them and youth hotels which are often better located and have less rule and teeny-bopper middle school groups in them than the HI (Hostelling International) hostels. Let's Go will be invaluable to you as you travel in many ways but low-cost accommodations are its forte.

<i>Fodors is more for slightly older people who like to travel slower</i>

Only "slightly"? LOL

Have you tried Couch Surffing??

Yet another old thread brought to life by a spammer whose post is now deleted.

I don't mind old trheads being topped - not by spammers but because someone may find the topic appropro for their trip - doesn't hurt at all IMO - not the spamming but bringing up a thread again is only a plus yet inevitably there are those that think it the worst thing in the world - there are many things in Fodor's Black Hole that current perusers may find beneficial and if not it will just quickly sink

those upset about old threads being topped and then chiming in about it are doing esactly what they are decrying.

I'd love to hear back from the OP. How was your trip?

(Slim chances, many people throw a question and never come back...But you never know!)

>>I'd love to hear back from the OP. How was your trip?

(Slim chances, many people throw a question and never come back...But you never know!)<<

Well, you do kinda know in this case since this was the OP's only ever post and he never came back to his own thread let alone any others.

Aaron Rowe - could it be alanRowe's son?

Well, you do kinda know in this case since this was the OP's only ever post and he never came back to his own thread let alone any others.>

Well I think folks who post these queries do come back and read the answers just don't respond, which I think is un-polite but I would not have any reason to say he never came back to read it - and I think if someone went to the trouble to register and post they would read it.