Our spending so far...

Flight ticket. Emirates. KLIA-Rome/Frankfurt-KLIA. With transit at Dubai. RM3200

F&B. Set aside €4-8 for lunch and dinner, around €3-6 for breakfast. (it's hard to find halal food). 500ml Bottled water will cost you around €1-3 with selection from Coke, Fanta Orange, Ice Lemon Tea, Mineral water. Buy them at local groceries instead of the vending machines or street sellers. Tips: Drinking water fountains are available around Rome and Venice. Bring along your empty bottle. If the local drinks it, then it's good. The water is super cold and refreshing especially if you like us, walking under the hot summer sun. Halal outlets (kebabs) available nearby the Termini.

Public Transport. Single use ticket will cost €1 for 75 minutes bus or tram ride. Single Metro ride will be around €2.50. But we recommend the €4 ticket for one day all transport. You can hop in and out of the transport without ticket but if caught, a penalty of €51 will be asked on the spot. Train from Airport to Termini Stazione cost us €11 for a 35 minutes ride.

Colosseum Tour. Recommended to do the tour with tourist guide. Entrance fee to the colosseum without tour guide is €11 (warn! long queue if you don't come early). They provided an audio guide with extra cost of €3.50. With tour guide, it's €19 and you got to cut the long line, heard the interesting stories and tales from the guide and an extra ticket to the Palentine Hill. The Colosseum tour will take around 2-3hours. So do the Palentine Hill.

There's quite a number of museums available but we did not have ample time to go and visit them. They will cost around €6-12. With the unlimited one day transportation, you can visit all their interesting and historical places by metro or bus. The Vatican city is quite far away but worth a visit (there'll be charges imposed).

Accommodation. We stayed at the BeeHive (about 10 minutes walk from Termini Statzione), a very cool and eco-friendly hostel with reasonably price rooms and modern deco. Since we booked quite late, we ended up with an apartment 15 minutes away from the main hostel. Millefiori. Nice three bedded rooms apartment with large common area and a kitchen. Cost us €30 per person.

Train to Venice. Buy the ticket from the Termini. If unsure how to use the ticket machine, go to the counter. You might get cheaper tickets and do come early as the queue can be long. We bought the Trenitalia from Roma Tiburtina to Venezia S Lucia. Treno 774 at 2250pm and arrived at Venice the next morning at 530am. Cost €36.50 per person. (Tips. 1. Take the train straight to Venezia S Lucia since this is the station that will take you straight to the water taxi 2. Quite a number of trains available and it priced differently based on the timing and how fast do you want to reach your destination. Choose carefully. 3.Nite train could be more expensive but we made some saving on accommodation and also traveling time).

Water taxi at Venice. Since Venice is an island and it's a big maze of canals, better to take one of the unlimited one-day passes. Cost us €12 (inclusive luggage storage) per person. Luggage storage is also available at train stations costing around €3-5.

Train to Villach. We did not spend a night at Venice, (a quick touch-n-go) for us, we proceed to Villach. This is a small city where we have to transit if we want to continue our journey to Salzburg. Train ride cost us €32. We tooked Trenitalia Tren no. 239. Departed at 2028pm and arrived at Villach at 0042am (4h plus ride). Since we reached Villach pretty early, we slept at the station but not really comfortable and safe. (Tips. 1. Set aside €2-4 for toilet and a quick shower or freshen up. Some stations have shower but most don’t. And they are very particular on water usage. 2. Stay away from drunker… they bound to hang out at the stations).

... will continue with our budget for the rest of the cities.