Friday, July 31, 2015

Balkan Road Trip Day 1: Deutschland to Slovenia via Austria

Stau überall! Traffic everywhere! We are almost on the border of Germany and Austria. It is day one of our balkan road trip, and it also happens to be the first day of summer holidays in all German bundeslander or states.
We left Niedersachsen, Osnabrück at 715am armed with food and drink, our trusty gps app Osman Plus, loaded up with waypoints to our destination - Bled, Slovenia. It is 1070 kms and predicted to take us 10 hrs 32 minutes. It is 1707 now, we stopped for 3 short coffees and toilet stops of 20 minutes each. In the last stop, we picked up vignettes for Austria- 8 euros 1 week validity and Slovenia-- 30 euros 1 month validity and hot stuck in traffic almost at the border.
Thankfully, traffic is flowing again. Just qnother 287 kms to Bled!