Silvia6
Junior Member
Period: 1-26 August 2014
The Route: Romania (Bucharest) - Hungary - Austria - Germany - Netherlands - Belgium - France - Luxembourg - Germany - Austria - Slovenia - Croatia - Hungary - Romania (Bucharest)
Total km: 7556,4 km
Day 1 (1 August): Bucharest (Romania) - Szombathely (Hungary) - 1100 km
Even though it was August, the hottest month of the year...I didn't feel that at all. I left Bucharest at 5:30 in the morning, as I was hoping to reach the border around 11 o'clock in the morning. The traffic, which is usually very heavy should've been much lighter at 5 o'clock in the morning. But it wasn't. And the fact that there is no highway to cross Romania didn't help at all. The road to the border (Nadlac) mostly has 1 lane per each way. Which were all crowded...to which you add the stray dogs which run freely all over the country, the badly behaved drivers that you must constantly avoid...and other things that make driving through Romania very tiring and annoying (driving in Romania gives you the feeling that everybody is constantly trying to kill you).
But I knew all that , and this is why I tried to leave as early as I could. After 3 hours of driving it started raining. And it did not stop until I reached Hungary. Rain, cold, swearings addressed to the careless drivers, trucks, so many trucks, curves (yeeey)..traffic jams....2 accidents on the road..so the traffic was stopped. So my plan didn't work out. Reaching the border around 11 o'clock was out of the question..all things considered. I did reach the border ..but not at 11 o'clock..at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
After crossing the border (Nadlac) the sun finally came up and I could dry my wet clothes. I usually prefer to avoid the Hungarian highway, not because it is bad or anything, but simply because (due to the relief) it is very windy. I don't know why but I really don't like that highway. But now, because I was in a hurry, of course I took the highway.
So.. add windy and noisy to the wet clothes and boots and you have one grumpy female motorcycle rider.
The good thing about Hungary is that everybody is so well behaved in traffic and the roads are very good so you can cross the country in a few hours. So, reaching Szombathely, which is at the border with Austria, should present no significant problem. And so it was. In ~ 3 hours I was already at the hotel, with a big happy grin on my face, unpacking my things and tasting the local Hungarian beer.
The next two days were programmed for relaxing and for catching up with my Hungarian friends.
The Route: Romania (Bucharest) - Hungary - Austria - Germany - Netherlands - Belgium - France - Luxembourg - Germany - Austria - Slovenia - Croatia - Hungary - Romania (Bucharest)
Total km: 7556,4 km
Day 1 (1 August): Bucharest (Romania) - Szombathely (Hungary) - 1100 km
Even though it was August, the hottest month of the year...I didn't feel that at all. I left Bucharest at 5:30 in the morning, as I was hoping to reach the border around 11 o'clock in the morning. The traffic, which is usually very heavy should've been much lighter at 5 o'clock in the morning. But it wasn't. And the fact that there is no highway to cross Romania didn't help at all. The road to the border (Nadlac) mostly has 1 lane per each way. Which were all crowded...to which you add the stray dogs which run freely all over the country, the badly behaved drivers that you must constantly avoid...and other things that make driving through Romania very tiring and annoying (driving in Romania gives you the feeling that everybody is constantly trying to kill you).
But I knew all that , and this is why I tried to leave as early as I could. After 3 hours of driving it started raining. And it did not stop until I reached Hungary. Rain, cold, swearings addressed to the careless drivers, trucks, so many trucks, curves (yeeey)..traffic jams....2 accidents on the road..so the traffic was stopped. So my plan didn't work out. Reaching the border around 11 o'clock was out of the question..all things considered. I did reach the border ..but not at 11 o'clock..at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
After crossing the border (Nadlac) the sun finally came up and I could dry my wet clothes. I usually prefer to avoid the Hungarian highway, not because it is bad or anything, but simply because (due to the relief) it is very windy. I don't know why but I really don't like that highway. But now, because I was in a hurry, of course I took the highway.
So.. add windy and noisy to the wet clothes and boots and you have one grumpy female motorcycle rider.
The good thing about Hungary is that everybody is so well behaved in traffic and the roads are very good so you can cross the country in a few hours. So, reaching Szombathely, which is at the border with Austria, should present no significant problem. And so it was. In ~ 3 hours I was already at the hotel, with a big happy grin on my face, unpacking my things and tasting the local Hungarian beer.
The next two days were programmed for relaxing and for catching up with my Hungarian friends.
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