No problem, we'll just chat among ourselves.

500-100 (to cross the channel and back) = 400 / 15 days = 27 GBP/day.

I spent $1200 for three months including airfare from NY ($250) and my share ($250) of a car rental.

That's $700/90 = $8/day on the ground.

Unfortunately, that was in 1966, so you'd need a time machine to do it. :-(

ssander

The "when I was young" was 1966 too "far less" adjusted for inflation. So glad there was no internet to find out what I did was not doable.

Hitchhike and couchsurf (use couchsurfing.org to find hosts) and you can probably make it work. My son did essentially that at 21-22 years old. You probably aren't going to see many sights from the inside other than free ones, but that works fine for some people, who are often there more to meet people than to see stuff. If you couchsurf, you will have to slow down some, because you can't treat couchsurfing hosts like hotels - you need to spend some time visiting with them and making yourself interesting company, or they will not give you the kind of recommendations that inspire others to open their doors to you. But you could still cover a fair amount of ground, and just get a budget flight home from wherever you end up.

As said before, it's a troll.

20GBP got me around England and a bit up into Scotland in 1962, hitchhiking and staying in Youth Hostels, loading up on the (included) breakfast and sneaking out a sandwich or two that we had for lunch, then some cheese and bread and a banana from a grocery store for dinner. On that budget we could afford one beer per day. Felt like living the life or Riley!

I feel young. My days of couchsurfing, sleeping at airports and nuder a bridge (...) were in 1980+ something. Yet I managed to spend about 1000$ a month. I remember that I
ate... I spent more on food than on sleep.