Well me made it to Venice without further car incidents. Well i say Venice, but its actually Quarto D'Atlino which is a small town about 20kms from Venice. This is a good thing since there are loads of minis turning up and there ain't many roads in Venice!Since the Italian job officially starts on Friday and there are no official plans to go into Venice we have to head straight into Venice on thursday night.
Its difficult to decide which our favourite city is so far, but Venice has to be up there. We're just gutted that we are unlikely to make it into Venice during daylight hours...
So we are well over the 2000 mile mark - the route so far: Brugge (Belgium), Luxembourg (Luxembourg), Munich (Germany), Vienna (Austria), Bratislava (Slovakia), Budapest (Hungary), Zagreb (Croatia), Ljubljana (Slovenia) and now Venice (Italy).
Ljubljana was a surprise - an excellent wee city which appears to be buzzing with students - the
kind that laze about all afternoon in the riverside cafes and bars - hmm did we do this in Glasgow - well not quite the riverside cafes - but not too far off the mark. We wish we had not stopped overnight in Zagreb and continued onto Ljubljana for the night. Hey ho.Favourite: Vienna, Budapest, Luxembourg,
Ljubljana are all hustling for the top spot - but all for different reasons. Vienna has jaw dropping buildings all over the place - definitely need to spend more time here. Budapest is massive, also has many jaw dropping buildings, its quite a 'real' place with lots going on, clearly an 'eastern block' influence - we'd definitely go back here for at least a weekend. Luxembourg is ridiculously clean with fantastic bars and restaurants. Its also a small place where you can walk everywhere with lots of variety of different squares and stunning views over the older parts of town. We didn't get to see much of Ljubljana but what we did we liked. The furnicular railway to the castle was a little uninspiring - we're sure the view from the tower in the castle would have been worth it but we didn't really have the time nor the inclination to pay for it. The people in general appeared pretty well 'groomed' - quite trendy, well dressed, lots of posers - some good eye candy!
One final thing before we head off on our first navigational rally: Pay toilets in service stations and restaurants in most european places - WHY!!
A few pics to see on http://picasaweb.google.com/g.a.jamieson/italianjob1
2 comments:
Glad you have made it to Venice.
Quite an achievement after the mechanical probs - creative ingenuity obviously got you a long way! Scary pix of the cars bits and Mr Fixit. 'Have enjoyed the regular updates, animated photo and the snapshot clips of your fav Eastern European cities. 'Hope the rallye proper will be fun and mishap free, tho' that's probably being a tad optimisitc. Looks as if the sun did shine by the end of the first week so hopefully it will follow you onwards. Remember to keep some spare euros for the loos!
Take care! xx
Stonking nighttime pics of Venice--Anyone who hasn't gone to the gallery link DO!
Keep 'em coming: vicarious living rocks. I'm rootin' for ya.
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