Our Trip In Numbers
MATILDA (1ST VEHICLE) SHAKEDOWN FACTS (Morocco)
Days of car preparation: 662 or 1 year, 9 months, 24 days
Number of hours online: lost count
Cost of the car: £4500
Cost of prepairing the car: £20,000 and i stopped counting
Number of passports we have: 2 each
Number of miles on shakedown: 5503
Number of miles the odometer didn’t move: ~1000
Actual miles driven on shakedown ignoring odometer: 6376.30
Number of litres of Diesel used on shakedown: 1022.35 (224.88 Imperial gallons)
Average Fuel consumption in MPG: 26.92
Number of times we filled up: 27
Number of days on trip: 23
Number of Days Sleeping in the car: 21
Number of times we got stopped for speeding: 1 (in a Land Rover !!!)
Number of times we had to explain we weren’t a HGV: 3
AFRICA FACTS
Number of Malaria Tablets: 628
Visas: 12 (Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique)
Number Vignettes so far: 6 (45 Euros ish)
Miles travelled: 34537 Miles OR 55582 Km
Hotels: 18 Nights
Wildcamps: 105 Nights
Couch Surf: 26 Nights
Campsite: 211 Nights
Litres of Diesel: 5851 ( 1288 Gallons)
Number of stones thrown at us in Ethiopia: 3
Number of stones thrown at us in Namibia: 1
Number of times we filled up: 90
Number of Shock Absorbers broken: 3
Number of Countries visited: 28 (if we include 5 mins in Lesoto 27)
Number of near death experiences: 1
Number of times we crossed the equator: 3
Average cost of fuel per day: £12.31
Number of days of the road: 388
Cash spent: approx £22576
Number of Mosquito bites for Nelly: 8
Number of Mosquito bites for Jelly: 100,000
Number of times we brushed out teeth: 7
Number of the 7 (or so) wonders of the world we’ve seen: 4
THE AMERICAS FACTS (COMING SOON)
Servery delayed as i’m lazy…..i will do it soon….Added 18th June 2023
WHOLE FIRST TRIP STATS (974 Days)
£54.40 per day including shipping, flying, driving, not driving and literally every penny.
$84.00 at mid 2013 rates.
| WHOLE 1ST TRIP 974 Days | Oct 2011 | June 2014 |
| Value | Percentage of Budget | |
| Fuel | £ 11,195.52 | 21.14% |
| Speeding Fine | £ 5.21 | 0.01% |
| Eat and Drink | £ 6,928.54 | 13.08% |
| Neill Gambling | £ 33.00 | 0.06% |
| Julie Gambling | £ 35.47 | 0.07% |
| Car Maintenance | £ 6,142.32 | 11.60% |
| Currency Xchange | -£ 6.59 | -0.01% |
| Groceries | £ 5,947.55 | 11.23% |
| Gas | £ 20.27 | 0.04% |
| Accommodation | £ 5,216.23 | 9.85% |
| Sth America Trip Prep | £ 41.00 | 0.08% |
| Flights | £ 3,968.95 | 7.49% |
| Laundry | £ 57.64 | 0.11% |
| Shipping | £ 3,966.73 | 7.49% |
| Parking | £ 93.98 | 0.18% |
| Stuff | £ 1,772.09 | 3.35% |
| Car Insurance | £ 575.50 | 1.09% |
| Border | £ 1,641.80 | 3.10% |
| Medical | £ 103.18 | 0.19% |
| Monuments and Parks | £ 1,509.19 | 2.85% |
| Toll/Vignette | £ 500.24 | 0.94% |
| Car Rental & Fuel | £ 226.18 | 0.43% |
| Clothing | £ 148.96 | 0.28% |
| Entertainment | £ 389.07 | 0.73% |
| Insurance | £ 322.97 | 0.61% |
| Kitty Cash | £ 575.00 | 1.09% |
| Phone | £ 407.35 | 0.77% |
| solar | £ 227.96 | 0.43% |
| Taxi/Travel/Bus/Ferry | £ 918.63 | 1.73% |
| Grand Total | £ 52,963.95 | 100.00% |