Europe Travelling / Living costs
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Ferry + fuel + insurances might total £500 or might total £1500 - no one knows other people's circumstances or their travel plans.
Food may be no more than one would spend at home.
Campsites may be €100 a week in low season or perhaps double that in high season.
Aires may be €50 a week or can still sometimes be free.
Sometimes we buy paintings.
Estimated total for me is impossible. I don't try.
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Dianne, how would you say prices for Austria/Germany compare with Spain/Portugal?
typical three course 'menu del dia' including wine in Oliva (nr Kikopark) was €10.
weve done a bit of Germany but not (yet) Austria....I do know that Denmark is blooming expensive
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https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/rankings_by_country.jsp?title=2018®ion=150&displayColumn=3
Interesting statistics here.
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Kj
Interesting figures. Can't really speak for Portugal or Spain as I have not spent enough time in either country but would reckon that the map is a fair accurate picture. It seems the UK is as cheap and in some cases a bit cheaper than some of the larger countries in Europe. I think it reflects our own findings. I am not sure you can accurately answer the OP's question as there are so many variables. Even if you ignore the cost of getting there you still have so many different ways of doing things. Eat in/Eat out, tolls, campsites there is not a standard answer. If you worked on the basis of what it costs in the UK that would be a good starting point and look upon any saving on top of that as a bonus. One thing for certain the wine is cheaper!
David
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yes, French supermarkets and fuel are both driving up the cost of touring France...
good job it's so easy to camp easily and cheaply with thousands of Aires about...
their good long term sites are still very good indeed and ACSI helps, but the Aires for the 'journey' and 'pottering/exploring' help offset some of the other higher costs.
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Everyone spends their time away differently so I tend to agree with DavidKlyne - If you worked on the basis of what it costs in the UK that would be a good starting point and look upon any saving on top of that as a bonus.
We personally do not spend such a long period away at any one time but feel how one gets there, choosing months, countries, roads, campsites/Aire type facilities, eating in or out, fuel etc all affect budget (some of which can be changed whilst travelling). 4- 6 months travelling IMHO means ensuring good insurance cover for people/vehicle/home as is having various ways of accessing money. Enjoy the research/planning and your time away. Good Luck Neil.
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We have found fuel and supermarkets getting more expensive in France in the last 2 years, we don't often eat out there but we do find the sites to be more reasonable with the taxes much less than in other countries.
Electric can be expensive in Germany and they do like to charge for it if they can, while we have never been charged for it in France or Spain.
Supermarket food and eating out we find to be cheaper in Germany than France, we do eat out in Germany as having lived there for 20 years we love the food.
Its a very long time since we spent a camping holiday in Austria or Italy (long before the Euro) so have not idea how expensive it is nowadays.
Luxembourg, bit of a mixed bag with that, fuel cheap, some food cheap, public transport cheap, have not had a meal out so couldn't comment on that.
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We shop quite a lot in Lidl, and sometimes Aldi, here, and find that the same items in Germany are the same price, or even a little cheaper, and certainly cheaper than in other German supermarkets.
We are quite price concious and like it that we can find the same products there as here, so do not often use other German supermarkets, so our comparisons are easy.
Austria we found fairly similar, but possibly a little more expensive than Germany.
For sites, we find that only some have the tourist tax, and not all year either, so it is variable, but usually not more than 50 cents - 2 euros per head per night when applied, but at the upper end can add quite a bit to the bill. If electricity is metered then it is expensive, but we have refillable gas, so that takes care of that.
Lidl in Luxembourg was a little more expensive than Germany, but most things were quite reasonable, we bought a new sat nav from Cactus in Luxembourg and got what we considered a good price,
Petrol/diesel is certainly cheaper in Luxembourg.
We rarely eat out, but did find Germany very reasonable when we did.
I think we are all different in what we buy and all have our personal comparison table.
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We found Italy quite expensive last time we were there in 2017, and Switzerland was horrendous and we left pretty quickly! Tourist taxes were very high,
France we found variable, but not too bad. Our main problem was finding fresh milk.
Using ACSI, site prices are pretty universal, so no huge differences.
Having a twin axle, we find that finding sites is difficult in France, but easy elsewhere, so for us that makes a big difference.
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