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Doing the Walk Yourself: Costs

If you're thinking of walking from Land's End to John o'Groats then you have to give serious consideration to the cost. Taking three months to walk across the country might sound like an idyllic way to spend the summer, but if you run out of money halfway through and have to go home early, you'll be well hacked off, believe me.

Date Description Accommodation Food & Drink
6/5/03 Land's End Hotel £49.00 -
  Pasty - £2.25
  Hotel evening meal - £19.80
7/5/03 Chips - £2.00
  Penzance Youth Hostel £11.50 -
  Youth Hostel evening meal - £3.20
8/5/03 Youth Hostel breakfast - £3.50
  Burger & chips - £3.00
  Penzance Youth Hostel £11.50 -
  Youth Hostel evening meal - £3.20
9/5/03 Youth Hostel breakfast - £3.50
  Pasty & Coke - £3.25
  Pengoon Farm £5.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £17.19
10/5/03 Pie & chips - £3.05
  Truro B&B £22.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £10.95
11/5/03 Tregolls Farm £25.00 -
  B&B evening meal - £10.00
12/5/03 Tarny B&B £25.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £10.05
13/5/03 Tarny B&B £25.00 -
  Pork pies - £1.70
  Pub evening meal - £12.15
14/5/03 Jamaica Inn lunch - £7.05
  Trecollas Farm £20.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £9.30
15/5/03 Sandwich - £1.25
  Baker's Arms £19.50 -
  Pub evening meal - £12.10
16/5/03 Pasty - £1.20
  Bridestowe camping £3.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £17.95
17/5/03 The Coffee Pot lunch - £6.05
  South Zeal camping £5.00 -
  Okehampton B&B £22.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £10.90
18/5/03 Okehampton B&B £22.00 -
  Pub lunch - £6.90
  Fish & chips - £3.70
19/5/03 Okehampton B&B £22.00 -
  Sandwich - £2.57
  Fish & chips - £3.00
20/5/03 Crediton B&B £22.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £7.93
21/5/03 Tiverton B&B £22.00 -
  Sandwich - £2.10
  Pub evening meal - £8.02
22/5/03 Taunton B&B £20.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £5.45
23/5/03 Street Youth Hostel £10.25 -
  Sandwich - £2.05
24/5/03 Taunton B&B £24.00 -
  Bistro evening meal - £20.00
25/5/03 Taunton B&B £24.00 -
  Indian evening meal - £15.00
26/5/03 Street Youth Hostel £10.25 -
  Evening meal - £3.95
27/5/03 Midsomer Norton B&B £25.00 -
  Fish & Chips - £3.70
28/5/03 Bath Youth Hostel £11.50 -
  Pork pies - £0.69
  Evening Meal - £5.10
29/5/03 Youth Hostel breakfast - £3.50
  Old Sodbury B&B £28.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £11.05
30/5/03 Dursley B&B £27.00 -
  Indian meal - £16.50
31/5/03 Dursley B&B £27.00 -
  Fish & Chips - £4.50
  Munchie food - £2.50
1/6/03 Painswick B&B £26.00 -
  Pub lunch - £5.00
  Pub evening meal - £14.20
2/6/03 Gloucester B&B £24.00 -
  Sandwich - £2.00
  Pub evening meal - £7.35
3/6/03 Tewkesbury B&B £35.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £10.55
4/6/03 Worcester B&B £20.00 -
  Fish and chips - £4.60
  Sandwiches - £2.00
5/6/03 Bewdley B&B £22.00 -
  Sandwiches - £2.00
  Pub evening meal - £11.50
6/6/03 Pattingham B&B £35.00 -
  Sandwiches - £1.85
  Pub evening meal - £11.00
10/6/03 Abbots Bromley B&B £25.00 -
  Sandwiches - £2.00
  Pub evening meal - £10.80
11/6/03 Air Cottage £25.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £16.60
12/6/03 Waterloo Inn £30.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £11.50
13/6/03 Edale Youth Hostel £10.50 -
  Sandwich - £4.85
  Youth Hostel breakfast - £3.50
14/6/03 Crowden Youth Hostel £10.25 -
  Youth Hostel breakfast - £3.50
  Youth Hostel evening meal - £5.10
  Youth Hostel packed lunch - £4.00
15/6/03 Standedge B&B £25.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £15.00
16/6/03 Standedge B&B £25.00 -
  Sandwich - £4.20
  Pub evening meal - £9.60
  Packed lunch - £3.00
17/6/03 Hebden Bridge B&B £35.00 -
  Sandwich - £2.10
  Fish and chips - £2.70
18/6/03 Lothersdale B&B £20.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £14.00
19/6/03 Lothersdale B&B £20.00 -
  Pub lunch - £9.00
  Pub evening meal - £10.25
20/6/03 Packed lunch - £3.50
  Kirkby Malham B&B £35.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £14.85
21/6/03 Settle B&B £32.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £9.45
22/6/03 Settle B&B £32.00 -
  Sandwich - £3.00
  Curry - £11.50
23/6/03 Hawes B&B £20.00 -
  Sandwich - £2.00
  Youth Hostel evening meal - £5.10
24/6/03 Keld Youth Hostel £10.25 -
  Youth Hostel breakfast - £3.50
  Youth Hostel packed lunch - £4.00
  Youth Hostel evening meal - £5.10
25/6/03 Baldersdale Youth Hostel £10.25 -
  Youth Hostel breakfast - £3.50
  Youth Hostel packed lunch - £3.10
  Youth Hostel evening meal - £5.10
26/6/03 Middleton B&B £25.00 -
  Pub lunch - £3.20
  Pub evening meal - £8.45
27/6/03 Langdon Beck Youth Hostel £10.25 -
  Youth Hostel evening meal - £5.10
28/6/03 Youth Hostel breakfast - £3.50
  Youth Hostel packed lunch - £4.00
  Dufton Youth Hostel £10.25 -
  Pub evening meal - £13.05
29/6/03 Youth Hostel breakfast - £3.50
  Youth Hostel packed lunch - £4.00
  Alston Youth Hostel £10.25 -
  Pub evening meal - £12.20
30/6/03 Youth Hostel breakfast - £3.50
  Sandwich - £3.00
  Alston Youth Hostel £10.25 -
  Pub evening meal - £12.05
1/7/03 Youth Hostel breakfast - £3.50
  Sandwich - £3.00
  Greenhead Youth Hostel £10.25 -
  Youth Hostel evening meal - £5.10
2/7/03 Breakfast - £1.20
  Sandwich - £2.25
  Bellingham Youth Hostel £9.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £12.05
3/7/03 Breakfast - £1.55
  Sandwich - £2.65
  Byrness Youth Hostel £8.00 -
  Evening meal - £4.65
4/7/03 Breakfast - £2.00
  Sandwich - £2.65
  Jedburgh B&B £25.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £13.50
5/7/03 Jedburgh B&B £25.00 -
  Lunch - £7.00
  Fish and chips - £4.10
6/7/03 Melrose Youth Hostel £12.00 -
  Packed lunch - £3.00
  Evening meal - £2.50
7/7/03 Breakfast - £1.00
  Melrose Youth Hostel £12.00 -
  Evening meal - £2.50
8/7/03 Breakfast - £1.00
  Sandwich - £2.60
  Peebles B&B £18.50 -
  Pub evening meal - £20.00
9/7/03 Sandwich - £2.65
  West Linton B&B £22.50 -
  Pub evening meal - £12.45
10/7/03 Sandwich - £3.65
  Edinburgh Youth Hostel £13.50 -
  Burger King - £5.20
11/7/03 Breakfast - £2.00
  Sandwich - £2.25
  Linlithgow B&B £30.00 -
  Curry - £13.80
12/7/03 Sandwich - £2.89
  Kilsyth B&B £20.00 -
  Fish and chips - £3.60
13/7/03 Sandwich - £3.20
  Drymen B&B £28.00 -
  Evening meal - £26.00
14/7/03 Drymen B&B £28.00 -
  Sandwich - £3.50
  Evening meal - £24.00
15/7/03 Arrochar Inn £32.50 -
  Sandwich - £2.50
  Evening meal - £24.75
16/7/03 Arrochar Inn £32.50 -
  Sandwich - £2.00
  Evening meal - £24.75
17/7/03 Sandwich - £2.50
  Tyndrum Hut £12.50 -
  Evening meal - £8.65
18/7/03 Breakfast - £7.44
  Sandwich - £2.50
  Kingshouse B&B £15.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £9.25
19/7/03 Breakfast - £7.00
  Sandwich - £2.50
  Kinlochleven Hostel £11.00 -
  Fish and chips - £3.25
20/7/03 Sandwich - £2.00
  Fort William B&B £22.00 -
  Fish and chips - £4.50
21/7/03 Fort William B&B - £22.00
  Sandwich £2.00 -
  Evening meal - £12.40
22/7/03 Tuna pot - £2.00
  Loch Lochy Youth Hostel £11.00 -
  Evening meal - £3.00
23/7/03 Tuna pot - £2.00
  Loch Ness Youth Hostel £11.00 -
  Evening meal - £2.00
  Tea & cake - £2.50
24/7/03 Breakfast - £2.00
  Sandwich - £4.50
  Drumnadrochit B&B £25.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £15.20
25/7/03 Sandwich - £2.50
  Inverness Youth Hostel £13.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £6.00
26/7/03 Breakfast - £2.00
  Sandwich - £2.50
  Dingwall B&B £30.00 -
  Evening meal - £13.95
27/7/03 Sandwich - £2.50
  Alness B&B £20.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £11.85
28/7/03 Sandwich - £2.95
  Dingwall B&B £25.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £13.30
29/7/03 Sandwich - £2.95
  Brora B&B £17.50 -
  Evening meal - £15.10
30/7/03 Sandwich - £2.50
  Helmsdale Youth Hostel £9.00 -
  Evening meal - £13.00
31/7/03 Breakfast - £2.00
  Helmsdale Youth Hostel £9.00 -
  Sandwich - £2.80
  Fish and chips - £4.35
1/8/03 Breakfast - £2.00
  Sandwich - £2.80
  Dunbeath B&B £16.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £18.50
2/8/03 Sandwich - £2.50
  Wick B&B £25.00 -
  Pub evening meal - £8.95
3/8/03 Sandwich - £3.45
  John o'Groats Youth Hostel £9.75 -
  Pub evening meal - £9.45
Total costs £1742.25 £1177.88