We spent the last five days of our time in Budapest with our daughter Clare, who flew out to spend a few days with us. (She stayed at a lovely hotel in the centre of town, not with us in the van!) We had a great time, and it was wonderful to spend time catching … Read more
We’ve had another busy few days since the last blog post – we’ve hardly stopped! Running low on gas because of the cold weather, we drove out one day to fill up and took the opportunity to visit Memento Park on the outskirts of the city. It’s another of those storage places for historic Soviet/Communist … Read more
It’s been a wintery week here in Budapest, with sub-zero temperatures every day, and plenty of snow. Despite this, we’ve been into town every day, and haven’t stopped. Budapest is a wonderful city with so much to see and do – even with two weeks here, we’re going to have difficulty fitting everything in. We’ve … Read more
I know it’s been a while since the last update, but we really haven’t done much at all. The weather here in Hungary is cold and it’s been snowing on and off. We spent a week at the Tranquil Pines campsite, but didn’t manage to get out to see Lake Balaton which is a shame … Read more
We left the camperstop in Sofia early on Sunday morning, filled the van with diesel and set off on a 600 mile journey to a campsite in Koppányszántó, near Lake Balaton in Hungary. It’s too far to drive in a single day so we planned to wild camp somewhere in Romania overnight. Setting up the … Read more
Just a short update today. This morning we went on the Free Sofia Walking Tour, and our guide Mitko was excellent, full of enthusiasm and with a good sense of humour. He clearly loves his home city and, having studied and worked in the UK and the USA, he spoke excellent English as well. The … Read more
I had originally planned to write one blog post for Sofia, but I’ve already taken so many ‘blog worthy’ photos (as Carol calls them) that I’m going to have to write two updates. Our neighbour on our final night in Thessaloniki was Bert from Holland who lives in a massive truck. We’d previously met him … Read more
Day Five There’s not much to say about day five. The camperstop is on a busy main road with no pavements, and as it’s common practice in Greece to drive along straddling the white line at the edge of the road, it’s not a great idea to walk along roads without a raised pavement, so … Read more
Day One – Wednesday It’s a long old drive from Athens to Thessaloniki – around 550km or 330 miles. There was nowhere in between that grabbed our attention, so we decided to make the journey in one day, which meant an eight hour drive along the toll roads. Setting the alarm early, we were on … Read more
Sunday was spent at the camp site so as to avoid the Macedonia protest taking place in Syntagma Square. Predictions beforehand were that a million or more protesters would converge on the capital, but the police estimates suggest that the number who actually turned up was more like 150,000. There wasn’t any violence reported, unlike … Read more