Awoke at 6am in my sleeping bag and felt like my legs were stuck together, VERY warm! Managed to get back to sleep though and we’ve just emerged at 9.30 to a full lay-by! A police car watched us pack our tent away but didn’t seem to have a problem, so far so good.
We’ve stopped just along the road to get petrol and spent 7 grand! We have no idea how many Hungarian wotsits there are in a pound, but it must be a lot!
Just got back to the car after spending most of the day walking about in a VERY HOT Budapest, the thermometer in a big indoor market said 32C, but even the wind blowing up the river felt really warm. We managed to park in an underground car park, so at least the car is bearable. We’ve seen a few other rally cars around the city but all driving by or parked and empty.
I found out from a billboard that the Hungarian Grand Prix is this weekend, could have spent a fortune on tickets and sorted out the Kazakh visa here if we’d known, Early Christmas present or something.
I wonder if Hungary is always this hot in July or if this is more than normal, I suspect it’s the norm, everyone looks very brown anyway. It feels like being back in Florida, I could get used to this temperature, but I don’t know if I’ll like it any hotter!
Just realized the Tesco Value water we bought 9 litres of in Klatovy is fizzy, Bollocks!
We made it to Romania! Our first proper border. The man said “Passports?” so I gave him them, then he had a flick through and said “Patrick?”, James said “urr.. yeah, James Patrick”, he said “Thomas?” I said “That’s me” he gave us a funny look, handed them back and said “goodbye”. Then we stopped just past the border because a sign said something about obligatory road tax, so we paid 5euros for a little sticker thing, changed 70euros into Romanian wotsits and now we’re off towards Bucharest (it will probably take two days).
Ok, it will take WAY longer than 2 days if the roads are like this all the way! They’re SHITE! Huge cracks every 2 yards, potholes every 10 and a giant lump of tar here and there for good measure!
So we got out of the town and the road got a lot better, but still the worst A-road we’ve been on. It’s dark, so we can’t really tell what Romania looks like, it might be lovely in the daylight tomorrow. We also might see some hills, it’s been pretty flat since Eastern Austria.
Just stopped in a lay-by for the night, there’s a hotel but neither of us can really be bothered, just going to pass out in the car.
We’ve stopped just along the road to get petrol and spent 7 grand! We have no idea how many Hungarian wotsits there are in a pound, but it must be a lot!
Just got back to the car after spending most of the day walking about in a VERY HOT Budapest, the thermometer in a big indoor market said 32C, but even the wind blowing up the river felt really warm. We managed to park in an underground car park, so at least the car is bearable. We’ve seen a few other rally cars around the city but all driving by or parked and empty.
I found out from a billboard that the Hungarian Grand Prix is this weekend, could have spent a fortune on tickets and sorted out the Kazakh visa here if we’d known, Early Christmas present or something.
I wonder if Hungary is always this hot in July or if this is more than normal, I suspect it’s the norm, everyone looks very brown anyway. It feels like being back in Florida, I could get used to this temperature, but I don’t know if I’ll like it any hotter!
Just realized the Tesco Value water we bought 9 litres of in Klatovy is fizzy, Bollocks!
We made it to Romania! Our first proper border. The man said “Passports?” so I gave him them, then he had a flick through and said “Patrick?”, James said “urr.. yeah, James Patrick”, he said “Thomas?” I said “That’s me” he gave us a funny look, handed them back and said “goodbye”. Then we stopped just past the border because a sign said something about obligatory road tax, so we paid 5euros for a little sticker thing, changed 70euros into Romanian wotsits and now we’re off towards Bucharest (it will probably take two days).
Ok, it will take WAY longer than 2 days if the roads are like this all the way! They’re SHITE! Huge cracks every 2 yards, potholes every 10 and a giant lump of tar here and there for good measure!
So we got out of the town and the road got a lot better, but still the worst A-road we’ve been on. It’s dark, so we can’t really tell what Romania looks like, it might be lovely in the daylight tomorrow. We also might see some hills, it’s been pretty flat since Eastern Austria.
Just stopped in a lay-by for the night, there’s a hotel but neither of us can really be bothered, just going to pass out in the car.
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