Romania, a country of contrasts and folklore. Travelling from the Maramures to Transylvania is like transitioning to another world, trading timecapsule countryside for amazing alpine landscape.  Ladies and gentlemen, the Transalpina and Transfagarasan – absolutely astounding mountain passes, on par with their Swiss and Austrian counterparts, they offer a feast for the senses. Whilst up […]

On my last night in Budapest hit the town with my new friends, Lamri (riding a bike from Netherlands to Indonesia!!!) and Marian, all equally drunk on wanderlust, beer and palinka. Another must see are the “ruin bars”, heritage listed buildings protected from renovation so instead turned into bars – take note world! Good luck […]

I’m not sure if there are three capital cities geographically closer together than Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest; honestly, you could probably day trip all of them if you wanted to. The countryside is mostly flat agricultured farm land, with numerous small to medium sized towns slowly being linked by a motorway system under construction. In […]

Perfect weather continues to accompany me, along with wonderful scenery as I rumble along the Donau, from Germany into Austria. Stayed on the primary/secondary roads through Passau, Linz and Krems, but for the life of me, could not avoid the Autobahn thereon into Vienna. Fortunately i have a friend living near the Centre of the […]

Hey there, first spot of internet in a while and I don’t want to keep my hosts waiting too long.  Yes I’ve officially started my third road trip, after RAC UK finally pulled their collective fingers out and issued me my carnet; when did it get so hard to give a company a huge wad […]