I just went for a quick walk and discovered that this tiny lay-by has a lovely little campsite with showers and a small river flowing by. If only we’d arrived before nightfall, this would’ve been a great place to stay!
We just got back from swimming and washing clothes in the river. The water is very cold, but the sun is so hot that it doesn’t matter. I feel clean again! I doubt it’ll last long though if the weather stays like this!
This afternoon has been a very hot drive! Stop/start A-roads mean a lot of time we’re just sitting in the sun! They seem to be building motorways all over the place! A lot of places here seem to have really badly rutted tarmac, which I’ve never seen before apart from on ancient Roman roads in places like Pompeii. There are also stray dogs all over the place.
It’s been nice to get into the mountains, it’s slightly cooler and there’s more shade around too, it’s also much nicer to look at. I was hoping it would be the impressive Dracula-country Carpathians, but I think they must be the Northern ones. If only I’d spent a load of time actually researching things to see along the way. Never mind!
Stopped for fuel just outside Bucharest, James is going to drive for a while. The city looks like it’s covered in a huge cloud of smog, there’s a dull grey strip along the horizon. A pack of dogs chased us into the petrol station.
We’re going to drive round Bucharest because it looks and smells horrible – there might be a lovely little city in the middle of all this industrial wasteland, but we’re sure we’ll see plenty of nice places in the next month and a half anyway, and I’ve never heard anything special about Bucharest. So we’re on the old ring-road, which is rutted and horrible, then we’re going to head for Constanta on the Black Sea coast. The new ring road is under construction, but this one is a total dump, it goes through a lot of slum areas, where people seem to like burning tires just for fun. I thought they were rainclouds from a distance, but it’s just tire smoke!
Been driving towards Constanta for a while now, looking for a service stop with some food, but none seem to have any (the motorway is new, half the services stations seem to be under construction) so we’ve decided to have some Sainsbury’s value Irish Stew and sleep in the car.
Photos of the day.
We just got back from swimming and washing clothes in the river. The water is very cold, but the sun is so hot that it doesn’t matter. I feel clean again! I doubt it’ll last long though if the weather stays like this!
This afternoon has been a very hot drive! Stop/start A-roads mean a lot of time we’re just sitting in the sun! They seem to be building motorways all over the place! A lot of places here seem to have really badly rutted tarmac, which I’ve never seen before apart from on ancient Roman roads in places like Pompeii. There are also stray dogs all over the place.
It’s been nice to get into the mountains, it’s slightly cooler and there’s more shade around too, it’s also much nicer to look at. I was hoping it would be the impressive Dracula-country Carpathians, but I think they must be the Northern ones. If only I’d spent a load of time actually researching things to see along the way. Never mind!
Stopped for fuel just outside Bucharest, James is going to drive for a while. The city looks like it’s covered in a huge cloud of smog, there’s a dull grey strip along the horizon. A pack of dogs chased us into the petrol station.
We’re going to drive round Bucharest because it looks and smells horrible – there might be a lovely little city in the middle of all this industrial wasteland, but we’re sure we’ll see plenty of nice places in the next month and a half anyway, and I’ve never heard anything special about Bucharest. So we’re on the old ring-road, which is rutted and horrible, then we’re going to head for Constanta on the Black Sea coast. The new ring road is under construction, but this one is a total dump, it goes through a lot of slum areas, where people seem to like burning tires just for fun. I thought they were rainclouds from a distance, but it’s just tire smoke!
Been driving towards Constanta for a while now, looking for a service stop with some food, but none seem to have any (the motorway is new, half the services stations seem to be under construction) so we’ve decided to have some Sainsbury’s value Irish Stew and sleep in the car.
Photos of the day.
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