Event Bulgaria Fest - Task complete

[barefoot]

Just slightly worried about you, 'spotting child'

Try not to get caught doing that, eh?

[wuvvum]

then spotted child till it got dark

You can get arrested for that kind of thing over here.

 

 

Edit: beaten to it by Barefoot.

[johngarty]

Just slightly worried about you, 'spotting child'

Try not to get caught doing that, eh?

 

Bloody Brits, coming over here taking our cars and spotting our childs

[Isaac Hunt]

Just slightly worried about you, 'spotting child'

Try not to get caught doing that, eh?

Guys are going to have to buy an Icecream van as a form of cover

[hairnet]

Bring back lancia estate please

[stripped fred]

When do we get the money shot?

[bezzabsa]

PLEASE bring back that Blue truck.....Its flippin Gawjus!!!!!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I didn't know a Dedra estate was even a thing

[dollywobbler]

When do we get the money shot?

Sunday. Can't remember if I said, but it looked like we wouldn't be able to complete paperwork until Tuesday. However, the seller managed to find an office that was open and completed the paperwork, so we can collect Sunday. Hoorah!

 

The car has now covered over 300km in four days, the most it has done in many years. It's in for a rather bigger shock yet...

[catsinthewelder]

Fucking spell check!

 

 

Great Wall for clown car style police chases. Helped by the fact that everything gets tyre squeal at 10mph on local tarmac.

[HMC]

Looking forward to the traditional hubnut road test on Sunday.

[hairnet]

In the local language

[dollywobbler]

In the local language

Ha! No.

 

We have now started our seven hour coach trip. Actually getting to see Bulgaria now!

[MiniMort]

Ha! No.

We have now started our seven hour coach trip. Actually getting to see Bulgaria now!

So hopefully more knackered Ladas then. Keep em peeled!

[dollywobbler]

The running joke is that neither of us has a camera ready every time we see a Lada!

[johngarty]

The running joke is that neither of us has a camera ready every time we see a Lada!

 

Should imagine that will get old pretty quickly, surely spotting Ladas there is like spotting bicycles in China?

[dollywobbler]

They're not that common. Anyway. We're in Pleven I think, which I think is fairly close to Andy18s. Sadly, the coach doesn't look like stopping again anytime soon.

[dollywobbler]

I tell a lie. I think we're now close to Andy, but now heading away from him.

[rantingYoof]

I did a Sofia to Bucharest Google maps journey last night and noted that Google's route was mostly motorway, although weirdly a couple of random street-view drops put me on single 'track' roads through wonderful tumble-down villages too.

 

I imagine you're not doing that route, but here it is in case you wanted to try and track yourself through a completely foreign environment!

 

https://goo.gl/maps/fQPngkdzpqr

[TataBobu]

T - 2h 20 minutes. Look foar a big bearded guy in horizontal stripes polo shirt and blue jeans. Blue sunglasses.

[skattrd]

T - 2h 20 minutes. Look foar a big bearded guy in horizontal stripes polo shirt and blue jeans. Blue sunglasses.

 

There are two bearded types unless I'm mistaken?

 

DW will be the one swarmed by fan(s) from youtube

[dollywobbler]

Excellent. Another meeting of beards. We are well into Romania now.

[busmansholiday]

Is the bus some modern luxury German shite or have you got lucky and landed a battered old Ikarus bag of shit.

[dollywobbler]

It was modern luxury I'm afraid. Now in Bucharest. It's bloomin' hot!

[hairnet]

The reason I didn't bulge area

 

The view from loch awe railway station

 

Nae flower tho

[TataBobu]

I can report back that they have found the accomodation and got rid of the luggage, and took a ride into city center where I left them with time to spare until the pre-booked tour of the city. I'm looking forward to their trip tomorrow.

[dollywobbler]

Thanks for your help TataBobu! Great to meet you. Sadly, we got horribly lost and walked many miles getting back to the apartment. Both our phone batteries went flat. Still, we had a big dinner and needed to walk it off...

 

Today's disaster mostly focussed on the apartment. I thought I'd booked one with a bed and two sofa beds, but there is one bed and one sofa. Owner said there was linen, but there was one duvet with no cover. There are no towels. The bathroom door is broken and he hastily tried to fix it. And failed.

 

So, we did the only sensible thing and agreed to hire a car from him for £7 per day.

 

Oh. There wouldn't have been anywhere for Brodders to sleep at all, so at least he can feel slightly better for not being here, trying to sleep on a cold stone floor...

[dollywobbler]

Romanian imagery.

The First Dacia, a Solenza. We did see a 1310 at the border, but those pics are on my other camera.

 

Autoshite Taxi Services courtesy of TataBobu

 

Solid Gold Autoshite!

 

Traffic. There are LOTS of Dacias and Daewoos. I had no idea the latter were built here. Have many more photos on my other camera.

 

[skattrd]

£7 car hire … we need pics of said hire car.

[andy18s]

When I was looking into cheap car hire earlier in the year there was a company offering a Peugeot 309 as part of their exotic line up

Obviously can't find it now....