The cost of living in Grenada is variable, as I’ve mentioned before. Today’s budget (of EC$50 / US$20) was exceeded because we had a bit of a bigger shop at the supermarket.
But all is not lost…we made a big chicken curry which will last for at least 2 days worth of meals.
Here’s what we’ve spent [...]
If you’re searching for the best routes, the cheapest flights and the options available to you, here are some useful tools that I’ve stumbled across recently (unfortunately there’s a bit of a US-bias to a lot of these but I’m still searching for UK/European versions).
PLUS, a great idea for transport as a city L.I.P.
Kayak [...]
Here are some of our favourite, locally grown (organic) foods in Grenada…
1) Fresh coconut water & jelly every morning – may look revolting but it’s delicious and very, very good for you!
2) ‘Skin ups’ or ‘Chinuts’ – no idea what these are called really but this is what they’re called here. I think they’re from [...]
So far today, we’ve spent:
- EC$9 (approx. US$3.60/£1.80) on 3 fresh, young coconuts for breakfast (you drink the delicious water then get the friendly coconut man – who saves us special ones – to cut them open for you so you can eat the flesh.)
- EC$10 on 2 huge, freshly caught tuna steaks for lunch
- [...]
So this week we’re going to try and experiment and see what’s the minimum amount of money you could spend in Grenada and survive (and still enjoy yourself!).
We won’t count the cost of our car hire (we’ve already paid for that) but we’ll monitor the cost of food, petrol and anything else we hand over [...]
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