Expenses of the Travel

Travelling is expensive. But there is a difference if you visit Spain for only four weeks or if you travel around the world for years. While holidays you must cover your travel expenses and these at home simultanously. During a long term journey the last ones decrease.

Nevertheless other expenses will increase. Visa fees and in many countries entry and departure fees as well take a remarkable part of the travel costs. Hotels are more or less expensive depending on the country. As bicycle traveler you need a longer rest again and again. You need to be by your own in order to let your brain work up the bunch of experiences that you got on the way. You need time to care for your equipement or as in our case to publish the travel documentation.

Cars consume gaz during a travel. Cyclists take their energy for locomotion from nourishment. Usually they need two or three times the amount than people with average activity. The consumption of limonades, beer, pasta, vegetables and other food increases at the same level. In the suburban markets of Italy the people were surprised by our filled caddy and even more by the way we packed all this on our bicycles. In Bohemia the country of the substantial dumplings, cabbage and roast meat we found until now the only restaurant where the portions had been large enough for the hunger of bicycle travellers. Considering the supplementary costs of food a cyclist spend much more money relating to a stretch of way than most of the travellers.

However, the most expensive part of a world travel is the lack of any income. Firstly we live from our savings. Where others afford a house or a car we spend our money for the world travel. Our sponsors have helped us with some parts of our equipement such as tyres, bicycle clothes and other parts that are used up very quickly at every day use. Nevertheless, these contributions only present a small share in the whole equipement. Most parts we have bought by ourselves some of it several years before for one of our short trips during the holiday.