8 days - 8 countries

The Not so Blue Danube in Austria

Saxon Sibiu in Romania

It was always going to be a gallop through Europe, and so it has proved. The camper is parked up in Bucharest in Romania having driven down through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary and now Romania. The one constant so far has been the excellent motorways and main roads, though as we penetrate deeper into eastern Europe the motorways are becoming much newer, some incomplete, and the side roads less well maintained.

Much of the journey for the past week has been along or near the Danube which is flowing fast and brown after a few days of rain, with the scenery changing from a beautiful valley lined with apricot orchards, to rolling fields of sunflowers. We also seem to have driven along the boundary between the heat of the south and the colder air of the north resulting in regular spectacular evening thunderstorms. To break the travelling we stopped off in Bratislava to view the old town, and spent half a day in Sibiu in Romania - a well restored Saxon town with some very elegant 14th century buildings. A lazy day in a meadow of flowers in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains relieved some of the monotony of the motorways  
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