Wednesday, 9th of September 2009

Set off at 07:30 and our aim today was the Bulgarian border. Myself and Amanda had to face the next big challenge, mountain driving but no ordinary mountain driving the roads had no crash barriers and had pot holes bigger than the moons craters and best of it was we had to deal with articulated wagons over taking up hill on blind corners, we called them kamikazes

Amanda did the fist part of the mountain driving them I took over you won’t believe how tiring it was, you could also see the unlucky people who didn't make it was the mountain bottom was full off trucks that had gone over.

We then came out of the mountains which had stunning views and came back to earth and enjoyed the vast plains of Romania which you could see for miles sometimes we past vast lakes which were breathtaking.

It's also amazing how many stray dogs there are, just roaming free but with that it's very sad and also dangerous as they have been attacking young children.

We went through many Romanian villages and through out sweets and soft toys as we were driving past children. After a few hour driving we got to the town of Calafat which was on the Dunav river. We arrived at the ferry terminal around 1730 and had to go through customs and had to pay for the wagons 60 euros. The flat bed ferry did not arrive until 19:45. I drove onto the ferry which was precarious as I had to line the wheels with ramp other wise I would be swimming to the other side.

The crossing took 20 minutes to get to the other side which was now Bulgaria. we then ran into problems with customs and we found out that the convoy was a day early which meant that we had to pay again the person tax of 20 euro's and their road tax of 50 euro's. It was now dark; we don't normally drive at night as it has many problems,

it took 20 minutes for us to get through, parked up and waited for the rest to get through which took another 15 minutes. At this point we all were tired and fed up.

Our hotel was in the centre of viddin but trucks were not allowed in the centre so we had to park in a truck stop outside the town and then get a taxi to the hotel.