Our 'trip 8' costs in 'Big Ted'

Trip started: 2nd October 2018, trip finished: 19th April 2019.

These are our costs for our first motorhome trip to Europe, first through France (October to December 2018), Spain (December 2018 to March 2019), Portugal (March to April 2019) and then back to Spain & home (19th April 2019).


For an overall view and detail of where we went, including a map of where we stayed, please click on the map below, click on the tab at the top marked 'Our Motorhome Travels' (or click here). The map is interactive, click on any of the markers to open an information panel which details where we stayed, what it cost, photos of the location and links to the blog entry of that stop. The page 'Our Motorhome Travels' contains a list of all our stops in date order with links to the relevant blog entries.

Here's our trip costs:

Overall total cost to date: £6165.80 (including insurance). Average daily cost: £31.00 (199 days in total) 
Distance travelled since leaving The Midlands, UK on 2nd October: 5091 miles (8193 km)
Litres of diesel purchased: 1073
Average fuel consumption: 21.6 mpg (13.1 l/100km) 
Average fuel cost/litre: £1.12 (€1.24)

Travel insurance (2 people): We arranged European insurance through 'Holiday Safe' using their Backpacker and Longstay, single trip policy and took the 'Activity Pack 3' option as this covered us for a multitude of activities such as off piste skiing, ski touring, glacier skiing, gorge walking, via ferrata, mountaineering up to 3000m, moutain biking up to 3000m and rock and ice climbing (plus a host of other activities that we probably won't do). Cost: £372.35 for 222 days.

For more information on costs of each Aire/campsite we stayed on, have a look at our travel map below. If you click on the little box with a left pointing arrow at the top left it brings up a list (go to full screen by pressing the box top right for a better view). Click on each of the items listed and a new window opens showing details of that site. It includes photos, links to blog entries of that stay and details of costs to stay there. To close click the left pointing arrow. It's also possible to access this information by clicking on any of the marker tabs on the map. Again, close each one by clicking the left pointing arrow.

Key to pin colours:

This is how it looks in a pie chart split between costs:

And here is the expenditure in numbers in a spreadsheet: