So we decided to have a holiday and headed off to the sea from Hungary to Croatia. It was a long drive (about 500km) but worth it as we were both keen to see the sea after a long period in-land (the last time we heard proper waves was in Denmark). There was some lovely scenery driving through Croatia to the coast and the only incident was the bee that flew in the window near the end of the journey and stung my leg ! Still M was on-hand to administer first aid, wh...

Well Gordon had wanted a break and Lake Balaton certainly fitted the bill. We found a lovely quiet campsite on the north side of the lake. So quiet we got a spot right by the lake itself with an unbroken view of the turquise water. Well, unbroken apart from the few obsessional fishermen who seemed to spend 24 hours a day catching huge fish avery half hour or so. They must have been selling them as no one family could get through all those fish! Fishing is for the...

So we've now decended from the High Tatras and have wound our way South to the next country en route...Hungary. Our first stop was the capital Budapest, one we've both been keen to visit.Arrival as ever was interesting, with a couple of detours from the rather complicated ring road system delaying our arrival at the campsite by an hour or three. Not to mention driving 50 km in the wrong direction before we reached the city when M fell asleep at the map an...

So we waved good bye to Vienna and drove over the border to Slovakia. Didn't bother to stop in Bratislava as we'd had enough of cities and were keen to get out into the mountains. The High Tatras in the East of slovakia are apparently the smallest Alpine type mountain range in the world and are supposedly very beautiful so we wanted to see for ourselves. We stayed one night on route and formed some first impressions of Slovakia. It seems a little behind the Czec...

So we move on from Czech Republic to Austria. We stayed one night on the Danube and then scuttled down to Vienna. We had a timetable, because we'd managed to hook up with one of the local hashes and now had a Monday night run to take part in. The hash first. Will try not to bore, suffice to say it was a great run in the Vienna Woods (Weiner Wald). We met up at a layby up the hill outside Vienna, the hare was a guy called King Ralph (similar style to Ram), good s...