Event Bulgaria Fest - Task complete

[dollywobbler]

As we're landing in the wrong country now, I've just booked a bus for three of us, for seven hours, with extra luggage, for under £40. BARG! It was a lot cheaper than the train ended up being, and is quicker! We hope.

[Supernaut]

[hairnet]

The closer it gets the more insane it sounds

[andy18s]

As we're landing in the wrong country now, I've just booked a bus for three of us, for seven hours, with extra luggage, for under £40. BARG! It was a lot cheaper than the train ended up being, and is quicker! We hope.

If you're passing Veliko Tarnovo I'll wave as you toddle by...

 

Tbh the coaches are just as quick as a car,in decent order inside and will allow you to peep over the many many walled gardens as you go

[dollywobbler]

If you're passing Veliko Tarnovo I'll wave as you toddle by...

 

Tbh the coaches are just as quick as a car,in decent order inside and will allow you to peep over the many many walled gardens as you go

 

Alas we're passing north of you by the look of it. We join the E85 just north of Polsko Kosovo. 

[andy18s]

And heading which way?

I'm just outside Polski Trambesh on the E85

[dollywobbler]

North. Well, east, then north. If Google maps is to be believed, we'll be coming along the E83. Likely to be late morning/midday sort of time. Probably! Sadly, it's a direct bus, so waving the only option.

[Junkman]

However, as of today Transfăgărășan is still closed. They started to remove up to 7 meters of snow.

The Climate leaves a lot to be desired. It needs to be improved®.

[dollywobbler]

Quite how I'm going to sleep for the next week, I'm not sure. I'm beyond excited. We have two cars that we haven't been able to thoroughly confirm we can actually buy, or insure (my insurer has a 5000-mile per year limit, and we'll eat half of that up just getting back to Wales), but a plan is sort-of forming. We will land in Sofia. We will stay in a hotel. A week today, we will meet a Bulgarian 2CVer, who will show us the sights. He has said that beer is cheap. Saturday will see us undertake a massive coach journey, then we're staying in an apartment overlooking a lake in Bucharest. There will be more tourism.

 

After that, who knows? I think I might book a car to make life a bit easier but I am hoping we can buy my car on the Sunday. The vagueness of sellers is apparently just a thing. At the moment, my car still has a blown head gasket and isn't road legal. I'm keeping an open mind.

[davehedgehog31]

Usually in the run up to buying a new car, or any other significant event with a bit of unknown I remain relaxed, yet excited in the run up.

 

However, some time before it, it could be minutes, it could be weeks, I get a very sudden and palpable dose of the fear, have any of you chaps felt it yet?

[dollywobbler]

Usually in the run up to buying a new car, or any other significant event with a bit of unknown I remain relaxed, yet excited in the run up.

 

However, some time before it, it could be minutes, it could be weeks, I get a very sudden and palpable dose of the fear, have any of you chaps felt it yet?

 

Oh yes. If I stop and think about the absurdity of it all, it can be quite overwhelming. So I try not to think about it. I mean, we're flying to the wrong country, in which we don't speak the language, then getting a bus to another country in which we don't speak the language, so we can buy cars then drive home through several countries in which we don't speak the language. In a car built in just-about-not-communist Romania, that's based on a Renault of two decades previously, that has a knackered head gasket. Frankly, it's all so ludicrous that it's hard to believe it's actually going to happen, so I can remain calm.

 

Also, I could be wrong, but I don't think I've ever actually met Brodders.

[catsinthewelder]

Just for extra excitement Ms C has just informed me that she will be back from Scotland 2 days later than planned (after 2 days of trying to find out where I should pick her up on Sunday).

[trigger]

Also, I could be wrong, but I don't think I've ever actually met Brodders.

 

I've met Brodders... Err... Good luck?!

 

 

 

 

 

Na, I'm joking he's a good lad, you'll be alright there! Although do watch him, we both managed to get shat on by a seagull the other week, it was all his fault obviously. I'm really looking forwards to hearing about your adventures, i'm sure it will all go to plan

[oldcars]

This trip will be class. I would love to do something like this. The Dacia is a belter too. Winning all round i think.

[3VOM]

Also, I could be wrong, but I don't think I've ever actually met Brodders.

Dollywobbler arrives Sofia airport and bundles lost tourist onto coach to Romania.

[anonymous user]

You'll be fine with the Rule Of Nine

 

1. Cable Ties

2. Gaffer Tape

3. WD40

4. 5 Ltr Water

5. 5 Ltr Oil

6. Warning Triangle

7. Flat Pack Tow Rope

8. 5 Ltr Fuel

9. European Road Atlas

I'd leave out the atlas and replace it with a flask of brandy, after all North/South, etc are usually in the same place.

[HMC]

Full credit to all involved. Love the idea of it. I'm living this particular dream vicariously through you lot. Excited here too!

[dollywobbler]

Well that's encouraging!

 

Head is back on, engine back together and all is well apparently.

 

It even has a new cat fitted.

[hairnet]

car make me go eep cat make me go aww

[hairnet]

you lot are looking at mobile.bg or romanian equiv

 

im looking at trademe

[Isaac Hunt]

Well that's encouraging!

 

 

Head is back on, engine back together and all is well apparently.

 

 

I suppose the risk of the Gasket having been made form a Killgoggs Cornflake Packet is quite low.......but from a www.rommac.ro Corn Flakes packet is quite high. I had an exhaust downpipe gasket made out of cereal packet and Gunners Gum last for 200 miles (five days) ......buys you a bit of time.

[johngarty]

Poor kitten is probably in the goulash by now

[Brodders]

 

 

Also, I could be wrong, but I don't think I've ever actually met Brodders.

 

 

 

I've met Brodders... Err... Good luck?!

 

 

 

 

 

Na, I'm joking he's a good lad, you'll be alright there! Although do watch him, we both managed to get shat on by a seagull the other week, it was all his fault obviously. I'm really looking forwards to hearing about your adventures, i'm sure it will all go to plan

 

It got worse after you and the others left. I forgot where I had parked the car and proceeded to spend about 20 to 30 minutes trying to find the street where I had left the bloody thing.

 

If I am unable to remember a street in Felixstowe it really does cause me to question how the fuck I am going to get back across Europe.

[dollywobbler]

With ADVENTURE! That's how. 

[They_all_do_that_sir]

With A TOW ROPE! That's how.

EFA

 

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[dollywobbler]

Hey, we're not towing him back. Firstly, a 1.4 is not the most powerful tow vehicle. Secondly, we're taking the long way home. Via Bosnia. If they'll let us in...

[catsinthewelder]

A-Frame - a method of towing a possibly dead car, with a passably alive one. Extra kudos gained from towing something of roughly equal mass to the towcar, over a long distance. Towing a Metro with a Discovery, 40 miles is good. Towing a Discovery with a Metro from Central France to Dingwall is for winnars. Restecp.

 

So towing a Crown Victoria 2500 miles over the alps with a badly made Renault......

[Zelandeth]

That looks like a lovely engine bay to work in. Bloody clean at a glance too.

 

I hope the coach for the trip is suitably interesting too...

[kirton]

panhard65, on 16 May 2018 - 07:38 AM, said:

If any of you guys go near a motor factors whilst out there could you find a price for 12kg of R134 air con gas. It has gone to stupid money over here, but  a Polish chap I was speaking to yesterday said it's still cheap in Poland. So maybe it will still be cheap in Eastern Europe ?.

 

Will try and remember,  are any of the west country shitters coming to scotland to get it back to you?

 

 

I hope to be at Shitefest and would be passing Taunton (Wellington?) on the way home;  just need  post code for both ends of Shitely express courier service

[dollywobbler]

In theory, I should be driving around in my new steed in exactly one week today! I have been sent another photo of it, surrounded by kittens. What I still don't know is the final total price including road tax and insurance (which is per vehicle, not per person). 

 

I have also been sent a video of an intersection in Romania, which appears to have no traffic control at all. This looks fun*. It isn't my video, so can't share. Have this one instead.