Travel notes

Just little thoughts...

We had our first proper border check going into Slovenia. All the Italians just pretty much got waived through, but we got asked to park over there please. What?! We thought, we're EU too, why are we in trouble? We turned the car off, got out and waited for a battle ... But no, the nice man just wanted to give us some tourist maps and say hello. Slovenia's lovely.

We got through quite a bit of Slovenia without seeing a Dutch car. But we knew when we got to the campsite it'd be alright: it's not camping if there aren't Dutch people. And sure enough, the car coming out as we arrived was Netherlandish.

When on our long drives it's exciting (?) to see which cars are driving about. No eye-spy for us. So far all Ukrainians drive vans. Monaco people drive at million miles an hour, as do Andorrans. We've only just clocked up our first Estonia and Croatia. Turkey was spotted in France, along with some Arabic number plate from who-knows-where?
11/7 update: first Finland spotted - and first Californian! Now that really puts us in the shade.

Other thought: We mentioned all the road bridges in Spain, but that did us no good when we went to eat locally to the campsite in Barcelona. Only able to turn right out of the campsite wanting to go a short way left there were suddenly no cross-over bridges. Had to drive almost to Barcelona proper to turn around, and then do a couple of illegal U-turns to get back to the road we wanted... Ended up about a 20 mile trip to go a mile the other way, and a very late dinner even by Spanish standards. Can't trust any stereotypes we make.

But onto more exciting Posts: Verona about to come...