Slavonski Brod,
Croatia to Ankara, Turkey (c.1,800 Km)
Today we rolled on into Asia, marking the completion of the
European leg of our journey. Having whipped across the Balkans, we even managed
to give the Beast a day off in view of the Bosphorous and give ourselves up to
the delights of Istanbul.
The biggest change on this leg, has been that we’ve started
camping...
Key traveller tip:
it is too cold to camp in Europe in
November unless you're feeling tough!
Nevertheless, we need the practise and the motel bills were
stacking up, so we’ve rolled out the long johns.
Our first night under canvas was oddly in the garden of an
Englishman who has settled in southern Bulgaria (it was a campsite, we didn’t
just invite ourselves) There, we braved the roof tent for the first time, with
mixed success. It’s really very comfortable, but very much built for African
climes, and a shivering night ensued.
Our procession through slightly odd camp sites continues:
staying in the car park of a football club by the sea front in Istanbul was pretty
unusual (they played football for more hours that we were awake, so there was
always someone watching the car!) and now we find ourselves parked out the back of the Turkish answer to Center Parks.
After gifting ourselves a day off, today was a slog behind
the wheel (especially given only James is insured here), so we’ll keep observations
on the countries we visited brief
- Serbians have an unquenchable thirst to see pictures of Novak Djockovic
- Serbia is rather how we imagine the 1970s - a bit dull, full of terrible food and smelling of fags
- Sofia has cafes and bars cooler than we should ever be allowed in to
- Istanbul is a great place to spend money
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