Europe By Camper - Travelling Europe By Motorhome: Trip Stats

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just some of the receipts we<br />
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One of the most popular questions about travelling Europe we get asked is how much does it cost. We've decided that in the interest in helping others we'll publish our detailed trip statistics to show you how we did. We did this trip on what we perceived to be a tight budget - perhaps if you are retired then you'll want to do more or if you have more time you will want to do less miles, but with hindsight there is very little we would have changed about our trip. <a href="http://www.quicken.com/" target="_blank">Money management</a> was crucial. Because of our budget constraints we carefully monitored and recorded all of our expenditure to ensure that we weren't over budget.<br />
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<b>First, some statistics from our trip!</b><br />
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We travelled <b>23,044 miles</b> over a period of <b>334 days</b> from 7<sup>th</sup> April 2011 until 6<sup>th</sup> March 2012. We passed through <b>21 countries </b>(stopping in <b>18</b>) consuming <b>3,805</b> <b>litres of Diesel</b> from <b>62 fuel stations </b>and <b>280 litres of LPG Gas. </b>We paid <b>19 road tolls</b>, <b>14 ferries, 5 vignettes </b>and <b>4 tunnels.</b><br />
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We 'Wild Camped' for <b>219 nights (66%)</b>, stayed on Aires or other recognised motorhome parking areas for <b>45 nights (14%)</b> and stayed on camp sites for <b>70</b> <b>nights (21% </b>with 29 of those nights being in Morocco).<br />
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Food wise we visited <b>115</b> supermarkets or other food shops and ate out for usually for lunch but sometimes for tea <b>101 times</b>.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Our average miles per day were <b>78 miles </b>and our mode fuel consumption (taking into account number of miles travelled between the calculations and averaging that out) was <b>33.4MPG</b>.</div>
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<b>Adam</b> drove for <b>170</b> days (80% of the driving)<b> </b>while<b> Sophie</b> drove for <b>19 days</b> (10%) and we shared the driving on a further <b>20 days</b> (10%). There were <b>123 days</b> (36%) where we didn’t drive anywhere at all.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The maximum number of miles we drove in a day was <b>372</b> on the first day of our trip getting from Calais to Dummerlolhausen. The only other day where we exceeded 300 miles was Asiliah to Marrakesh in Morocco (365 miles). The minimum number of miles we did in a day was 2 miles (leaving one place and arriving to stay at another) from Aghios Konstantinon to Gytheio in Greece.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<b>Totals</b></div>
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Ok, so enough beating about the bush! What was our grand total?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">£9,570.19 or £28.83 per day<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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Or in other words, two people, a little over 11 months full board for £14.41 per person, per day. This is how we broke down and recorded our spending:</div>
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<b>Fuel (42%)</b>We always tried to fill up in the cheaper country.</div>
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<b>Food (26%):</b> Food bought from a supermarket / shop. Includes Wine / Beer but not eating out.<br />
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<o:p></o:p><b>LPG (2%):</b> Our gas for cooking, heating and running the fridge when not on sites.<br />
<o:p></o:p><b>Transport (11%):</b> Tolls, Vignettes, Ferry’s, Bridges, Public Transport & Parking when not overnighting.<br />
<o:p></o:p><b>EO&E (14%):</b> Eating (and drinking) Out and Entertainment / Entry fees.  Also includes personal items such as clothes, shoes, laundry etc.<br />
<o:p></o:p><b>Overnight (5%): </b>Cost of sites, aires or parking overnight where a cost applied.<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>What is not included?</b> <o:p></o:p></div>
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Items which we viewed as being outside of our living costs which are: Vehicle Insurance (£500), Vehicle Road Tax (£195), Travel Insurance (£200), <a href="http://www.europebycamper.com/2011/06/guide-to-vodafone-data-traveller-data_01.html" target="_blank">Mobile Phone / 3G Internet (£180)</a>. We also didn’t include our ‘side trip’ to <a href="http://www.europebycamper.com/2011/06/st-petersburg-russia.html" target="_blank">St Petersburg</a> (£500) as we left the van in Helsinki and felt it would unfairly skew the results. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<b>Comparing Countries</b><br />
In the below table we have broken down our expenditure for all of the 18 countries that we stayed in. The biggest factor influencing costs was if we stayed on a camp site or not, which made expensive countries like Norway (where we only spent £2.78 a day on food over 4 weeks, but spent £0 on campsites) appear comparative to Latvia, where we opted to stay on camp sites because of a lack of wild camping opportunities. All of the figures below are laid bare for you to view and dissect and are of course only representative of what we chose to do on this trip and not necessarily of that country as a whole!<br />
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<b><i>So what's our strategy on keeping costs down? </i></b></div>
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<b><i>Our next blog post, Europe on a Budget will be published shortly and a link will appear here!</i></b></div>
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