Day 9 saw us homeward bound. It was planned to be a leisurely drive as we didn’t need to be at the Tunnel until 4 p.m. Given the traffic carnage of the past couple of days, we were a little apprehensive, but as it transpired, it was an uneventful journey, and we got there a couple of hours early. There …
After the stressful journey of the day before, the morning drive to Stuttgart was, thankfully, uneventful, and as planned, we met up for breakfast with our friends from the German MG Drivers Club (MG Drivers Club Deutschland e.V.) It was a good start to the day and a great breakfast with Guido and Neil, who presented us with some very considerate …
Before heading off to Stuttgart, we started our morning filming at Lake Bled, outside of the restaurant we had eaten at the previous evening. The staff at the restaurant was so interested in what we were doing they plied us with free coffees. As we had come to expect now, the hotel staff and their kids were keen to get the …
Belgrade to Lake Bled was the agenda, but after a late night, the day started at a leisurely pace. Milos wanted us to see a little more of Belgrade, so we travelled to breakfast with Milos at a lake-side location before setting off for the day. But first, Milos “needed” a bit of posing time in the car! Off we set …
We started the day with a leisurely breakfast at the aptly named Hotel Happy. As usual, we followed that up with the usual photo shoot with the staff. Then, after employing some elbow grease to remove the acquired and rather sticky bugs from the windscreen, we set off for Belgrade. We were pleased (and rather grateful) to see the high …
I don’t think either of us have ever been so relieved to enter (or leave!) a country. The border control getting out of Turkey was stressful. It seems that the Turkish Border control in the southern town of Tasuçu had forgotten to stamp Dad’s passport. As a result, the border staff in Edirne seemed to think he might be an …