but on the other hand i think texting to canada may still be way more expensive if you keep your canadian card (have no idea on prices, so you might want to check that).

oh and another thing, i’m not sure it counts for canadians, but when a friend from usa was visiting me in the NL, it turned out they don’t use sim cards so her phone was useless. in the end she just bought a prepaid phone together with the sim. (the cheapest ones are approx. 20€ of which 15€ is usually your credit, so you pay 5€ for the phone in the end. but still keep in mind that a lot of providers request an online signing in and then they send you additional credit later via post, which may be a problem for you). but for my friend it was useful as she stayed for 3 months.

so anyway, have a good look at the options. and mind that you’re going to have to do it in each country that you go to in europe, because these telephone companies all work on a national level.

good luck and have fun on the trip!!

So you may have to consider buying ‘pay as you go’ sim cards which are pretty cheap. In the Netherlands at least you can get them anywhere like newsagents, supermarket’s, petrol stations, phone shops etc.