Well we finally arrived in Calais at midnight, after a very noisy trip. The ferry was full of French and German school kids, hundreds of them ! Getting off the ferry was interesting, we were trying to find our bearings as well as concentrate on driving on the other side , we were driving through …
It’s day 2 of our journey, as stated in my earlier blog we arrived in Germany at 6.30 am saturday morning and pulled into a service station for some well earned sleep. I only managed to sleep( if you can call it that ) for 1 1/2 hours and Andy only managed 3 ! So …
It’s Sunday morning, the sun is out and it’s getting quite warm. Andy managed a few hours sleep but I only managed an hour. Whilst waiting for andy to wake, I wrote a few notes, took the dogs for a quick walk, fed and watered them then sat an waited. Got a bit nervous when …
The Romanian border….what can I say, dark, not very well sign posted, oh and rude! When we finally worked out where to go , we pulled up at a booth with a man sitting there, beside the booth was another man in uniform, who was sat on a bench. We handed our passports to the …
Finally daylight came and we could at least see where we were going and we felt relieved. That relief lasted all of 2 minutes as the road was taking us up the mountains. The roads were twisty and steep. Our poor van was struggling as we tried painfully to climb them. Andy had to put …
We did a short video as we were driving along as we couldn’t believe just how bad the roads were. What you see us driving along is what Romania call a motorway????!!!! It was absolutely insane, the roads were dangerous coupled with sharp hair pin bends insanely steep hills. (Please excuse the language).
We finally arrived at our house after 3 days of hard driving and it was a huge relief to get here. The road leading up to our village was beautiful. Pine forests, hills and a lovely stream running along the edge of the village. In the distance we could see mountains, which I think is …
Took a picture of a stork that nest on a pole a few yards from our house. Beautiful to watch but when It makes a noise it sounds like a magpie with a megaphone !
Friday 3 May We have been here a few days, the suns been shining, it’s been very hot and we had no fridge! We had been using the electric cool box, which we had plugged into the jump start power pack but it decided to suddenly stop working, which left us with a problem as …
On Sunday the neighbours daughter came round to give us a gift due to the fact it was Easter. It was a basket of dyed eggs and sweet bread, a Bulgarian tradition at Easter time. Luckily for us she spoke English, so we were able to say thank you properly rather than just nodding and …