After my self-imposed challenge, I celebrated my achievement by going to a tapas bar the following day with my daughter and granddaughter. As daughter and myself wanted to drink, we went into town on the bus. Sangria was quaffed with the excellent meal, and then I had a very sweet and most delicious orange liquer to finish, whilst the daughter had a liquer coffee. As we left the restaurant my head was feeling rather fuzzy, and I seemed to be having trouble controlling my feet. It seemed that alcohol was having a very potent effect on me. Maybe that's what happens as you get older, I thought. Although you do understand I'm not old, don't you? Somehow I managed to stagger home whilst wondering if I was experiencing a Juzzy-type moment (or two). Straight to bed. Next day - ill. So - it was some virus and not the drink. Which is why I'm only just blogging about this, and not straight after it happened.
What I wanted to say about the £2.50 a day experience is that it is possible to live healthily on that amount. In fact, it's possible to live on less, because what really happened is that after the first very expensive day, I was actually living on £1.95 a day. It is possible, but not very easy. It requires planning (which in my case was rather lacking) and judicious shopping. Also it helps to grow your own fruit and vegetables.
One of these days I'll do it again, only better, I'm going to see how cheaply one can do it with planning, but without any own grown food, but don't worry, I won't subject you to a day-by-day account again.
