£10 Challenge...

Well guys...

As part of my uni course at the moment...

We were asked to do a £10 challenge.

The challenge was to spend £10 a day for 3 days and go at least 20 miles away from home.

"How far can you get on £10 a day"

The first thing we thought of was to go somewhere to do with fashion, Milan, Paris, London??

Cheep flights would do it we thought... so we chose Milan! How Good would that be!!

Yes it would have been! We found some flights for £6!! only £6!!!

But well... by the time we had checked that that was ok with everyone, the price went up to £90.

Me an the girls chose to go to London as we wanted to go to Graduate Fashion Week anyway..

How could we get there? Train, coach, car?

We thought that if we drove, 5 of us could fit in the car, and the petrol money would get split between us. We also thought that a road trip would be more fun then sitting on a train and stopping at every station.

So we had a plan. London it was. Graduate fashion week and £10 challenge mixed in one.

Vanessa, one of the girls offerd to drive, she also had the biggest car. so then me and 3 others could also fit in, aswel as all of the bags. And munchys!!

As the challenge was only to get somewhere it didnt matter how much we spent when we got there. The idea of the trip was also to do something to do with our projects, so the fashion show also fitted into this.

I booked tickets for the show, found a hotel, booked car parking, we were all set.

The day came so out came the sat nav and off we all went to London!!

The petrol there cost us £10 each. And we only used half of the tank. So we were well in budget... so we splashed out on going on the toll road! another £4.70, split between 5 of us that was nothing...

When we got there the traffic in London was mad! The roads are so different then at home. But we managed thanks to the sat nav. We parked up and got a taxi to the hotel.

Because we needed to go London on the day of the Education day of the Graduate fashion week we didnt have much of a choice on dates, and due to people having to work, we could only go for two days insted of three. I no the challenge was for three days, but I think seen as we spent less money getting somewhere, and because we went thurther then 20 miles, we can be let off!!

The hotel was great, it coast each of us just over £20 which is really good for London. That first night we booked a meal online to go to Gordon Ramseys Pub called The Warrington. £22.50 for a three course meal. It was lovely and a real treat.

Next day it was time to go to Fashion Week!!!!

So excited!!

The day was brilliant, it was really helpful and useful to me looking into universities what I could go to next year. It makes it alot easier to see which courses are the best as the work is all in one place to see.

The fashion show at the end of the day was also really good (as I have rote about in the blog before) I think that London was deffinatly a good place for us all to go. We had a fun road trip and got to go somewhere we cant usualy get to go.