All those numbers and stats that you have always wondered about. How much did we spend cycling around the world? What were those expenses? How cheap can you travel? Which countries were the cheapest, and the most expensive ones? Where did we sleep? How many kilometres a day did we cycle?
I'd been travelling since January 2011, and on 8 January 2014 we left London to cycle around the world. Almost five years, 47,000 km and 30 countries by bicycle later, I finished the trip on 21 December 2018.
Trying to prove that travel is not expensive, not by itself, I kept crunching down every number I could — not easy when you spend most of your time wild camping without electricity or internet. I kept the spreadsheet updated until we reached China (early 2015): the tables below are that first-stage snapshot, exactly as I left it.
2011–2015These numbers are a snapshot from the first part of the trip — up to when we reached China (Central Asia, early 2015). I never finished updating them, so they don't reflect the final 47,000 km and 30 countries.