Groceries, culture, transport: daily spending
And, in a final analysis, here are the figures for all the other things you spend you money on in daily life: (super-) markets, public transport and taxis, culture, my phone and other expenses. Depending on how much I cooked, I paid more or less in supermarkets around the globe. It was one of the smaller […] Read More
Eating out & getting drunk
I have no idea to how many restaurants, bars, cafes and clubs I have been in those 18 months… After a few months I started checking in on Foursquare & Swarm, to record it all, but I lack the first three months in South America. Still, Swarm hast recorded nearly 1450 check-ins, and most of those […] Read More
From cheap to outrageous: rental prices
Accommodation was – of course – the biggest part of my budget. At first I calculated with 100 € per day for each city, including accommodation. But, as during the trip I decided to extend it by a few months, I lowered it to 75 € from Montréal on. On average, my daily budget was […] Read More
The hidden costs
Yesterday wrote about the total cost for all the flights. Today, it’s time for a bit of background spending on such a trip. Don’t underestimate the hidden side costs, as they too add up quickly. Just in case…. Insurances One of the biggest posts here would be insurances. I kept my health insurance through work, […] Read More
5 cents per kilometer
Today, I’ll start with the actual cost of flying around the globe three times, of renting cars and taking trains, ferries and busses. I have already written about the actual ticket hunting and booking processes of my three circumventions of the globe, but here’s the final tally: Besides spending 360.000 miles on my two Round-the-world […] Read More
The world is your oyster
If you think about taking time off and going on a trip around the world, the one question on your mind is inevitably: how much will that cost…? Reading other blogs who published their budget really helped me planning and budgeting my trip. That’s why I have decided, throughout my journey, to publish my expenses […] Read More
Encounters
…and just when I was hitting a bit of a low point, and thought I’d spend another evening locked in, despite the sunshine, I got a message… Georgios from Chicago, whom I had met a few times in Hong Kong over beers, texted me that he was in town. He was heading to Paris, to […] Read More
Processing
Three weeks ago my plane took off from Buenos Aires, and I was on my way back to Europe, back to my old life, a new apartment, old friends, a (nearly) new job… I was functioning pretty much on autopilot, without thinking too much, without even being too melancholic. Last week was my first nearly […] Read More
Travel bug
This video surfaced in 2011 around the time when I started to think seriously about making this journey. It fascinated, moved and inspired me. Weirdly, I didn’t have it on my laptop when I left. Today, I watched it again. And again. And again. And again. And I cried. Read More
Let it go – the figures
And this is what my journey looks like if you break it down into figures and statistics: In figures, I was… travelling a total of 185.608 km flying 105.991 miles (or 170.576 km) by plane taking 55.000 pictures driving 9.195 km by car or bus riding 5.280 km by train sailing 557 km by ferry and […] Read More