We had about 190 miles to travel today. Check-in at our hotel was 3pm, so we didn't need to rush and we didn't. I've got quite used to trundling along at 80kph. It probably annoys the hell out of the locals but they are free to overtake when it's safe. Some do even when it isn't! It gives you the chance to look around and see stuff, though on this run it was mostly farmland, both in Romania and Hungary. Still, oocasionally you get something interesting, like a Douglas DC3 in someone's front garden!
We had a fuel stop, then nothing for about 50 miles, which was at a place called Kiskoros, to visit what is named The Old Car Museum. The museum certainly isn't old, it's a very modern building, with lots of glass.Neither are all the cars old but there's a varied selection. It might be better named Classic Car Museum, as there are a lot of classics in there, a tiny Fiat 500, a Porsche 911 Turbo, E-Typre Jags. They even have a Trabant. It cost about €7 and was really interesting. Photos and video was allowed, she said but no touching. Just as well she said. Grizzly's already been told off for touching things in a museum, back in Olympia!
The road we were travelling on in Romania was one of the best surfaces we'd had. Hungary started off the same. Then it went down hill a bit. There's not much in between really smooth and excrutiatingly bumpy. We had a lunch stop after leaving the museum but were pretty much forced into another after being pounded on one road. The annoying thing is, they have a sign saying bumpy road for one kilometre, then another and another. Just have one saying the total kms!
There was no drama with Ginny today. The temperature was not so high, so she coped better. We arrived at the hotel and parked up in the garage. It cost the same for garage or outside, so security won the day. It's a nice hotel but suffers from style over function. The bathroom is split, so there's a separate toilet. Not only is it small but means you have to come out to wash your hands! Rubbish. The other gripe, was only one set of towels. We got more eventually but it was struggle! Oh yes, we got our first Booking.com room, i.e. furthest away from the lifts. It had to be 80 metres away, down a long corridor, then some..
I'd identified a place to eat, a craft beer bar. We went, we found, we came away! No food, only beer. Not even Grizzly would make do with that. We ended up in a burger bar before making our way back to the bar. I tried a couple of different brews, the second being called Gentle Bastard, a classic IPA. Beer count now 44.
And that was our day.
Pick of the pics.
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| A classic old Merc |
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| My favourite baby car. Want one! |
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| A baby bike, Honda Monkey |
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Saint Stephen's Basilica Szekesfehervar |
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| That corridor, red dot is my t-shirt |
Tomorrow we will leave Hungary and make our way to Ybbs an der Donau, in Austria,
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