Am super pleased to say we are at 39% of our budget..which means that we can splash out on a hotel in Leon as well as in Santiago when we arrive ( given we continue on our great budgeting skills) its been good to have a run of Albergues charging 5 - 8 Euros each as well as cooking our own dinner or having picnic lunches along the way.
I am usung a super awesome app called travel wallet, which allows you to set a trip budget and then keeps a daily spending record. You can see by category where and what you are spending, and it generates graphs and pie charts ( ok.. Am I the only one excited about this?) anyway.. I love it!
I have one hundred euros a day between the three of us - which as I've said before is not extravagant but we are also not penny pinching or denying ourselves in having an icecream or yummy snacks everyday. We have homecooked meals when an Albergue has a kitchen ( rare to have one) AND if I find a corner store nearby..and we do take snacks ( muesli bars etc) and picnic lunches from time to time - but things weigh so much.. We honestly dont have the space to take much extra. Additionally, as crazy as it may sound, there really arent that many supermarkets around - think of the things ( and prices) you may get in a corner store.. And thats your range. Barely any fresh anything- so when I see fruit I nearly knock down old ladies and throw children in front of cars to get to it!
Broken down, our budget looks like this:
Breakfast 15 (fresh squeezed orange juice or a hot choc, a slice of tortilla - a sort of omlette or a boccadillo - a French stick with cheese or ham or scrambled eggs in it)
Lunch 17. ( similar - orange juice and hot choc or coffee, boccadillo or a fish slice thing or some pinchos - small plates of... Things...)
Snacks and drinks 8
Dinner 24 ( two pilgrim menus between the three of us- its a three course meal with water)
Alburgue ( the hostel) 30
Medical/ bandages, bags forward and washing - 7 ( obviously we dont use that every day but its there to bank up in the kitty. We used the Bag forward service for the first few days, but quickly decided that we wanted the flexibility of stopping when we were tired and not being tied down to having to get somewhere.)
So.. There it is, in case you were looking at walking the camino somtime... Something to guide you a little at least.
1 comment:
This is fascinating - and to think that you have achieved so much without spending a fortune. Well done all of you! I was really surprised to read that there is so little fresh food - mind you it all looks a bit bleak on that stretch. Love the photos too, and that you and the kids appear to be (?!) positive all the time. Lovely to see Morgan smiling so much. Lilly always does! Love to you all - Margie xxx
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