Okay, its time to dream a wee bit. Turkish Gp's coming up (6th, 7th, 8th of May), and it is soooo relatively close to Pakistan (seems to be at least), that I wanted to calculate how much MONEYSS would do to make the trip. So of course we start with the MOST important bit ( to me i.e. ) The race weekend tickets. There are a few options but this one seemed the most appropriate to me:
We'll get to the conversion to Pk Rs later, Next most important thing would be actually getting to Istanbul, I'm sure there must be other options around but for some strange reason I choose to look into PIA's site to get a general idea. I looked for a return ticket of 5th may to 9th may, and found one for round ticket for 5th to 10th may instead, but hey, its OKAY, its Istanbul.
Next, I guess I should probably have somewhere to stay, as my primary plan of hiding in the pit-stop might not work, and for that I inlist the help of my beloved Hostelworld.com for arriving on the 5th of may and staying 5 nights, and as I have Zero problems with dorms I find:
I don't see the point in spending HUGE amounts on lodging if you are going to be out for the whole day anyways, I just need a place to sleep and put my toothbrush. It can be way cheaper than the above figure, but I liked the situation of the hostel.
Alright, whats left?, Food and travel? by searching some savvy traveler blogs, I came to understand, that food (for sustainability) aught to be cheap, in fact the magic number for 3 meals per day for 5 days was less that 5000 Rs, BUT you never know and don't want to die of hunger so I upped my food budget to 10K Pk Rs. My favorite means of transportation in a new city is "Feet" but being realistic is again important here, and the travel from Istanbul city to the circuit for 3 days also needs to be taken into account, So after some researching taxi fare and yada, I came with the figure 15k Pk Rs.
Alright time to punch all the numbers into a calculator, breakup is as follows:
Race Tickets :160 GBP = 21,939.74 PKR
Air Fare : 47,000 PKR
Lodging : 9,678 PKR
Food : 10,000 PKR
Transport : 15,000 PKR
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Total : 1,03,617.74 PKR
Okay this the basic number without the miscellaneous expenses, I can keep them to a minimum with these taken care off. It seems rather doable! Am I missing something? should probably get back to work now.
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