Well at least we got away somewhere! If you add the week skiing in Italy (not included here) we didn’t do bad. A very expensive year pound for travel as most of the costs on Bertie have still been incurred even though we didn’t go far and camping in the UK is very expensive. We were chased through Europe by Covid, with places closing behind us as we passed through. A mad dash home as countries locked down and rumours of border closures abounded, to find the UK happily continuing as it nothing was happening in the rest of the world. The UK locked down a couple of weeks after we got back.
With Brexit we can only go for 3 months in any 6 months and it will cost a lot more with all the extra paperwork to buy, so it might just prove too expensive to keep going.
Trip length Spain – 3.5 weeks!
- 20th February 2020 – 16th March 2020
UK – total days away – 7 weeks
- 15th – 17th Jan – 2 nights
- 18th – 19th Feb – 1 night
- 6th July – 12 July – 6 nights
- 29th July – 24th August – 28 nights
- 12th Sept – 19th Sept – 8 nights
- 20th – 23rd December – 3 nights
Distance travelled
- 5657 kilometers
- 3515 miles
Average fuel consumption
- 9.5 k/l
- 25.8 miles/gallon
Number of places were we stopped overnight
- UK – 9
- France – 2
- Spain – 8
Cost of campsites
- Total cost of campsites – £1180
- Cheapest – €0 (incl clean and dirty water)
- Dearest – €27.55
- Average by country (approx)
- UK – £21.50
- France – €7.80
- Spain – €14.30
Expenses
- Motorhome Repairs and bits and bobs – £990 (mainly the new awning)
- Eating out – way too much
- Entertainment – we basically don’t go in places that cost
- Ferry – £748 (We paid for two channel crossings although we only used one. We have a voucher for the cancelled ferry)
- Food – Big item
- Internet and mobile – too hard to count this year
- ASCI card and international camping card – £16 ( and not used much!)
- LPG – gas for heating and cooking – £20
- MOT, service, insurance, tracker and storage – £711
- Diesel – £650
- Tolls – £227
- Travel insurance for 1 year cover – N/A