Our Trip In Numbers

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 wern’t a HGV: 3

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

Servery delayed as i’m lazy…..i will do it soon….Added 18th June 2023