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Driving from UK

jeanmandredeix

I take my hat off to anyone who has done journey from UK in two or three days!


We left Suffolk at 2.30am Saturday and done a heavy drive in our van to Germany, some 12 hours or so.


Today we drove the rest of Germany, Austria and are staying in Hungary tonight. That was 9 hours drive roughly.


Tomorrow we initially intended to drive to the house but it’s 12 hours plus allowing for stops for dogs and us, so we are now doing an extra night in Romania.


When we go back, I am going to have to do shorter days of driving. Did we do something different to others or was it that the van doesn’t have air con 😆 ??

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Ozzy183a

You’ve done good, that’s good progress, just take your time though as Romanian roads in my experience can be lethal. Quickest I ever did it was just over two days in my landrover discovery but was on my own, the drive was not for the faint hearted. On average though it’s takes me 65-67 hours to get to the Black Sea area near Varna from East Anglia and have driven over many things and all take about the same, most interesting journey was in my old dilapidated 1967 mgb roadster back in 2008 she’s still going lol.


Take care and safe travels Rgds Ozzy.

jeanmandredeix

@Ozzy183a

We are currently in a traffic jam about a km before we need to turn off. No police, miles of traffic behind us. We were doing so well 🤣

Ozzy183a

Oh not good, I recall a similar time at the Romanian Hungarian border on the Hungary side when I was transporting our mad German shepherd over. Despite being held in a metal cage in the car she managed to escape, climb over all the stuff as the car was rammed and landed in my lap whilst driving and just smiled at me.


i had to pull out of the massive queue and luckily found a farm track, parked up tied her up and had to fix the damaged cage before bribing her with chicken pieces to get back in the cage. Not funny at the time but now I can laugh about it! Keep plodding and drive safe Rgds Ozzy

jeanmandredeix

We made it eventually. We may have made a beginners error? We drove to the Giurgiu bridge crossing and we had major delays as they’re replacing the railings and it’s one way traffic controlled. When we have to go back I am hoping to find alternate routes but we did notice huge border checks at Austria causing major jams.

We are now recovered though 😄 and happily cleaning, getting plumbing and electrics done. Dog is happy apart from loose dogs which scare her.