Month: August 2022

Or even Sevastopol as I keep calling it after a glass of the nice red Bulgarian wine …now that would be shocking! An awful nights sleep for Guy as there was some loud drum type music being played all night.

Cool night with the fan plugged in so we had good sleeps! Set off towards Varna on what we thought would be a motorway following the coast south. It was more of an A road with more pot holes than

Bit of a crazy night in the motorway rest area. The lorries coming and going were no problem, but when a couple of families turn up in the middle of the night and have a party, it’s a different story.

Saw another big bear this morning! We’d just stopped to have a look at a huge dam, then just around the corner, cars had stopped again. He just ambled down to the roadside, had a yawn and a scratch, then

After saying goodbye to Geoff and Hayley this morning we drove a short distance to have a look at Corvinilor Castle. We’ve just discovered that it was rebuilt in the 19th century- so not as old as we thought, but

Set off mid morning up a long, straight road, lined with colourful but very tumbledown houses towards the nearest big town. We passed quite a few crosses at road junctions reminding us that this is a very religious country and

That was a very noisy night! Hadn’t realised it was a Croatian bank holiday today – Assumption Day…when you assume that the whole world will be out by the riverside partying all night! Then outdoor church service starting at 6am

We had a walk around Tivoli Park this morning. It was much hotter than yesterday and we found ourselves seeking out shade. Apart from a nice lake with a lot of water lilies on, it wasn’t quite what we expected.

Guy had a big treat today – a trip on a straight motorway! After two days of zigzagging up and down mountain passes, we thought we’d bite the bullet and get a €15 vignette for Slovenia’s motorways. So glad we

Rude awakening early this morning when it seemed like a helicopter took off from our roof – both nearly fell out of bed! Then Bob the Builder and his mates appeared from nowhere to start moving some stones around. Maybe