The numbers are in.
Remember I had two breaks of three and 12 days that aren't counted here. These are just the days I was riding.
Riding days 15
Total miles 4143, average 276, high 472, low 150
Fuel used@50mpg 83 gallons
Fuel cost at £9/gallon £747
Hotel costs 11 nights total £488 average £44
Ferry Ancona-Patras £215
Eurotunnel return £155
Tolls/vignettes £90
Fuel used is calculated; life is too short to trawl through bank statements
. I think 50mpg is pretty close to what I got and is based on the trip computer.. Motorway tolls are from France, Italy and Greece. Vignettes are Switzerland and Austria. Everywhere else is free for motorcycles.
Hotels were budget-midrange. All were OK or better. I limited my choice to ones that had off street parking and food within walking distance. Once I got off the bike at the end the day I wasn't getting on again.
On the mileage, some might think it's a lot/too much. Some days I was riding for 9-10 hours and on a couple of days I never left motorways. But not the same days; 470 miles on French toll motorways goes surprisingly quickly and 9 hours in the Romanian Alps is not a chore!
The one thing that shocked me when I added it up was the petrol cost. That's a big chunk of the total. The most expensive I saw was Greece at 2.43 euro and the cheapest about 1.20 in Hungary (and we all know where that comes from). BTW there seem to be a lot more petrol stations than the UK everywhere else, with every town seemingly having one or more. I think the supermarkets have destroyed independent petrol retailing in the UK.
I think that's all the useful stats. I haven't included food/drink but as a guide, the places formerly known as Eastern Europe are about half the price of the UK to eat and drink out.