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4 October 2018
Before going into the round-up we did have one last full day of cycling from Bucharest to the Bulgarian border. We started heading south and about 4km into the journey Martina stated that “the traffic has been surprisingly good hasn’t it?”, which was of course the kiss of death as it got much busier and […]
28 September 2018
Someone’s turned the heating down. Just few days ago it was 30 degrees plus and leaving Brashov it barely crept above 10 degrees! The forecast over the next few days is even colder, 3-5 degrees during the days and -2 degrees at night. To be honest neither of us expected it to be quite as cold […]
20 September 2018
Not your average Monday…it has been a story of different roads in more ways than one! Initially we started out from Buzias on what we thought was going to be a busy road towards Lugoj. Turns out that the traffic wasn’t too bad and only started to become a bit of a pain the nearer […]
6 September 2018
We decided to hang around in Belgrade for longer than planned as some family news meant that we wanted to be near an international airport in case we had to fly back to the U.K. The delay allowed us to explore Belgrade more, taking time for some proper R n R and also for us […]
27 August 2018
So, we made a bit of a navigational error! Well, error is a bit strong, but as we were in Osijek and needed to be in Belgrade for Monday where we had accommodation booked, that left us three days to get there. On paper and on the map that initially looked fine, however… We left […]
22 August 2018
Our little apartment in Sesvete, on the outskirts of Zagreb, had served us well, but we were up and out early on our departure morning. In fact we were so early that we’d visited Lidl and escaped the suburbs by 9am! We meandered south along the east bank of the Sava river, which was all […]