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By james | July 9, 2008
We have found internet in the form of a 0.45Ghz PC running Windows 98! This gives us a little more room than usual so let us update you.
One place we really skimmed over was Budapest, mostly because it was really hectic. It was raining like a British summer, the roads are extremely confusing to navigate, and the locals seem to have little respect for traffic lights, indicating, or human life. We eventually gave up on finding the information point our map swore existed whilst making only right turns (not a problem with the car - there is a complicated one-way system in place) and instead headed for an out-of-town point on the merit that it was signposted.
Once there we met a very friendly man who was extremely enthusiastic about our trip and found us two cheap flats to stay in overnight in the town proper. Armed with keys and the best directions ever we soon found our beds, extremely comfy even though located inside crumbling buildings. We decided to make a night out of it and grabbed some gyros and falafel, and settled in a bar to sample their local beer (Soproni - delicious!).
The next day we headed into Romania - shortly over the border we got talking to some locals at a gas station who were very excited by our trip (despite thinking we are “****ing mental”, and are hopefully reading this blog. They gave us plenty of advice and directions, not all of which we took - if you’re reading this guys, you were right, the B road was much, much slower! It did however give us some amazing views of the Romanian countryside. This place is really beautiful and we all want to come back here someday.
As our text blog says, tonight we’re in a 3-star hotel - we arrived in this town early today so we’re taking a short break from the rapid pace before heading into Turkey, where we may well have a slightly larger break enforced as we need to acquire an Azerbaijani visa for Amy there.
Thanks to John (James’s dad) for letting us know about the Romania/Turkey border! Also to Karin for texting us our entire itinerary (might have been useful to take that…).
As usual while we’re on the road we will be updating via text messages which will appear on our other blog, and you can reach us by phone on +37259713778 (which doesn’t cost us anything to receive calls or texts on, and we can text or call out pretty cheaply).
We have also managed to upload a couple of pictures:
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