Sunday, 10 July 2016

Breakdown of the journey

         When i read other blogs of adventures i always like to see a breakdown of their journey like what you get normally on the first or last chapter distances time costs problems etc , So here"s my breakdown of this journey . first of all time i picked cammy up at 05:00 one saturday then the next saturday we got home to polmont around 8pm so just over one week for our journey .the distance is a little more tricky as we can't count the flight home the distance to cross the channel or josh driving us the 2.5hr journey from VT - Sofia , or buses trams trains (not even the one home from manchester ) &taxis in various cities ! but our shared driving only was 2430 miles in total ! the breakdown for that was


  1. home to chunnel 479 calais to brussels 130m day 1 -609m
  2. Brussels to Milan 576m day 2
  3. Milan to zagreb 514m day 3
  4. zagreb to sarajevo day 4 (forgot to check milage )
  5. sarajevo to skopje 575 mile( split between two days ) day 5
  6. skopje to veliko tarnovo 286 mile day 6


           the diesel for this journey was much cheaper than the petrol we spent driving the wee coupe the last time , And i did try and keep a note of all the diesel costs and amounts and here is a brief summery of those amounts i could keep account of 

32.43 lt redding tesco £35.32
46.71 lt shell services london £58.34
47.92 lt france £61.53
ltrs mising on reciept milan £61.78
44.65 ltrs 375.6 kuna croatia £37.50
£12 worth of diesel from angry attendant sarajevo
33.68 ltrs was 32 euros in kosovo

           so roughly speaking around 270 ltrs of diesel costing around £300 .londons diesel was by far the most expensive and surprisingly croatias was the cheapest  .other costs for the car where the tolls we paid ,2 in France £17 , 2 in Italy £34 ,1 in Croatia £8, 2 in Macedonia £2,then there was the road tax or vignette 40 euros in Switzerland then 15euros for Slovenia Kosovo called it insurance but it was 15euros and finally Bulgaria 15 euros ,so roughly £60 in tolls and around £75 in road tax 
  and speaking of expensive london when we got home a nasty letter popped through Bryan's door with a fine for £118 for the dartford crossing london he thought it was a wind up until he seen a photo of the mighty merc in the fine apparnly there is some toll charge you need to pay for crossing the dartford tunnel that we never even seen a sign for your supposed to know what the big C is for on the sign at the bridge ! so i am still awaiting the cost of that plus any speeding fines we got oh to get unclamped was inexpensive and there was overnight parking costs .