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Events, Gatherings, Out & About => Members' Travels => Topic started by: dlw on May 20, 2008, 20:03:49
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30/6/08
This will be my 3rd driving trip to Bulgaria, 1st trip was from Holland where I was living at the time, stopped in Austria, Hungary and an unscheduled stop in Serbia because I didn't have the right paperwork to get the company car across the serbian/Bulgarian border. Finally a day later and lots of phone calls got a letter faxed from the company and they didn't even look at it on the border. On the way back stopped in Slovakia for a few hours then had 2 night in a 5* hotel in Prague, decided to stay longer and miss Berlin out.
Last year UK to Bulgaria in 32 hours stopping to pee and sleep for 2 hours, had to stop in Romania going to the ferry to get to Bulgaria because somebody had put a large branch/small tree across the road which I hit at about 70mph at 3am, got to ferry and they would let me cross because I had no front plate, the police where called had to go and see the chief about 2 hour later and he said we could cross, got stopped 2 more times and had to make a temp plate with card, laminator and big marker.
On the way back it took about 35 hours wife was with me who had flown out before I drove there.
Next trip, little bit slower Mitsi L200 30mpg instead of 50mpg Skoda. Setting off Friday 30th, getting midnight ferry £44 return on Norfolkline, driving to Vienna, Austria, camping next to the Danube River (http://www.wiencamping.at/en/?id=nd) then setting off to Bugaria (http://visit.vratza.com/index.php?lang=en)
Should be doing a bit of off-roading while I am there and might be looking into buying some land for an off-road center. Look for further posts soon :D
On the way back we will be stopping in Budapest (http://www.hallercamping.hu/index.html) then to Koblenz (http://www.moselbogen.de/) for 2 nights to have day trip for my 2 year old who is car mad to the Nurburgring Nordschleife. (http://www.nuerburgring.de/Nordschleife.361.0.html)
Then home
Link to google map of route (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=6860573550105704806,51.014830,2.389600&saddr=Wellingborough,+Northamptonshire,+NN8+3LN&daddr=Vratsa,+Bulgaria&mra=pr&mrcr=0&sll=47.754098,11.337891&sspn=11.037017,29.355469&ie=UTF8&z=6)
It's only 1700 miles one way does it count as overlanding??