Event Bulgaria Fest - Task complete

[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....

[dollywobbler]

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

It may actually be a £14 hire car. It's du here in about half an hour.

[catsinthewelder]

Slow start today, as Ian said we were very kindly shown the sights of Bucharest last night before getting very lost on the way back.

 

Late Sofia update

 

UAZ sightseeing tour in Sofia

 

Lots of roadworks in Sofia as they can't be done in winter.

 

A Lada in plain sight, the older ones were proving hard to photograph.

 

 

Pony

 

 

Kombi

 

 

Ian, Vladimir and some sort of hearse

 

 

Niva

 

 

 

More police by the government building

 

 

 

Hopefully our landlord will arrive soon with his spare car. It is an aging Logan on LPG. I had to remove the shower door seal to open the door this morning so god knows what our 70le hire car will be like.

[Yoss]

Seems to be going every bit as well* as we all expected. Still jealous.

[johngarty]

TBH the place looks fantastic, cultured (architecturally) with a down to earthness minus the tourist hordes (except 2 brit hippies of course).

[vaughant]

Good effort and chodspeed.

 

I took a job with a company in 2015 under the guise of working in Burghas, inbetween golden sands and sunny beach. Looked a really lovely place and the lads who went out there said the food and hospitality were spot on.

 

It was working on the ill fated southern gas pipeline from Azerbaijan.

 

I ended up in Angola instead and the lads only got about 3 months out there before the project got canned again.

 

Pity as it wasn't a bad number really, a lot better than all the other wank jobs I ended up doing with them.

 

I looked into buying a car to drive about out there, I seem to recall a few MK2 Sierras but in three door guise? Seemed to be about 1600 Lev? Must have been three of the same car but in different colours so I'm assuming they were popular at one point. I also considered buying then driving home as the company I worked for managed to get the lads home for something like £37 each but it meant 6 flight changes and something like 17 hrs to get back to blighty.

 

Gives you a bit of a clue as to the quality*of their HR staff !!!!

 

Best of luck and I'm sure you won't come home empty handed. I'd have loved to have gone myself but my other half would have certainly left me!!!!

[Mrs6C]

Don't forget to snap any Oltcits you might see!

[TataBobu]

Those are long gone, I'm afraid. The last one I've seen turning a wheel was more than an year ago.

[dollywobbler]

Don't forget to snap any Oltcits you might see!

We did see one as we came into Bucharest! We weren't able to get a photo sadly.

[dollywobbler]

We are currently in the village where the car is, but we're an hour early, and can't get hold of the seller. We're getting started at a lot by the locals though. Long hair not something they apparently encounter on men.

 

Crap data, so pics will have to wait.

[red5]

If anyone feels like driving me a 3dr mk2 sierra back I'll send some monies. Now. . Or a Escort.

 

Top work gents

[Rod/b]

Ask them what year it is and whether the war is over...

[stripped fred]

I watched 'banged up abroad' last night. Take care out there and have your bribes ready...

[vulgalour]

Silver hearse is a bit unusual since American based stuff of that age is normally 4 door rather than 2 door.  Looks like it's probably a Lincoln Towncar from the early 2000s.

[egg]

It has gone a bit quiet. Hope they haven't been kidnapped with cries of 'this is a local car for local people'

[MiniMort]

It has gone a bit quiet. Hope they haven't been kidnapped with cries of 'this is a local car for local people'

Well I was wondering...

Now we wait for a Romanian police report of two bearded gentlemen in a knackered Dacia estate...

[trigger]

I've just seen the latest video, very exciting!

[egg]

Yep, go and watch YouTube!

[dollywobbler]

We need to drive. We got kidnapped by lovely Romanians who forced us to eat lovely food.

[cms206]

Sexual.

 

You may now be my favourite beardy people out of all the beardy people.

 

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[vulgalour]

What a superb looking thing.  Careful though, Rich seems excited enough to steal it when you're not looking.

[Isaac Hunt]

60k Kilo Meeetres, Dash looks a bit ropey around the instrument binnacle, could it be the only one of the three of you who has had a recent haircut ?

 

GLWTJ

[MiniMort]

Nice set of wheels! Best of luck driving it back to the UK. Also, what a nice Logan!

[TataBobu]

Nice one! Looks fit to transport you back to Cymru.

[hairnet]

Enjoy the trip back

 

Both mental. rich gets it more cos salop

[Timewaster]

Amazing how many bits I recognise from my dad's 1972 R12 which meet its maker a good 5 years before yours was stamped out.