Sunday 13th May 2018

Dave posting,

I have had the red box out folks as it’s budget day.

We crossed the channel 7 weeks ago on 27th March 2018, we have had a great time so far and lots more to come, we have seen some wonderful historic European cities in France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and now we are here in Croatia.

We were on budget until Venice, but once in Venice we didn’t want to miss anything out which is understandable and once we were in Croatia we were faced with a beautiful coast, cafes’ bars, restaurants lining the azure Adriatic, the weather in Croatia has been sublime and it’s difficult not to slip into holiday mode, that means, eating and drinking out more than usual.

You can see from the information we are extremely over budget by €15.98 per day so far, however it is actually improving, at day 30 we were €21.43 per day over budget. Four days in Venice saw our costs double for the 4 days to €105.30 per day with entrance fees, ferries and lots of tasty treats.

49 days spending = €3,478.06

• budget of €55 per day x 49 days = €2,695
• total over spent is currently €783.06, which is over spending by €15.98 per day
• sorry, there’s no pie chart due to WordPress limitations

This is a massive overspend and we have to reign it in, we didn’t realise how difficult it would be to resist the temptation to eat and drink in the sunshine!

Once we are away from the beautiful Croatia coast where we have to pay for camping fees for overnight stops (we have managed to squeeze in 4 free nights even though it is not allowed) so it should improve.

Dave