As our overnight in Giurgiu was practically on the Romanian-Bulgarian border, crossing into Bulgaria was pretty easy.  We took the only bridge route over the Danube and had expected the 2.3km single-lane bridge to be heaving with trucks – but miraculously it was completely empty. Most of the trucks seemed to be in their queue […]

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 […]

From Buzau to Bucharest on bikes was a day and a half of dull cycling – we have, of course, recently been completely spoilt with amazing scenery. Nothing much to see in terms of landscape except for a few unbelievably patriotic villages where the chairs and benches at the side of the road, the fences and […]

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 […]