We started the lovely day of the 29th of September doing a tour at Auschwitz, the biggest Nazi death, and concentration camp for Jews, Pols, Soviets and other innocent people. The tour lasted three hours and despite the rain and average temperature of 10 degrees, I was completely awestruck by the size of the camp and the horrors we learnt that took place in it. After the first hour and a half our spirits slowly started to dwindle, and after seeing babies clothing, peoples hair and shoes our spirits had completely dropped. The tour finally ended at the gas chambers, which had a very eerie feeling whilst the boys and I were inside.

We bought one last coffee with some Polish funny money, headed back to the car were I took off the two t-shirts and two jumpers I was wearing over the football Jersey and T-shirt I already had on.Nathan in the driver's seat, Chris navigating and Pete, Ben and I in the back ready to take off to Budapest.

It is always a bit of a struggle to get around with no real map, so the initial take off had a few hick-ups, nothing to complain about just enough to laugh. After finally getting onto the E77 we stopped at a random restaurant at the back of a fuel station to wine and dine, recharge our batteries and get going again. After a dozen U turns we finally made it to the Slovakian boarder, crossed that fine and kept driving down the E77, Until the E77 ran out of road. With no real direction to go we decided to head east into the great unknown… at 11:30 at night. It wasn't until we realised we had no idea where we were that we decided to get Pete's Iphone out and roam our location to work out were to go. Problem, roaming wont work and the Pete gets redirected to about 50 different Indian fellas. After arguing with the guy for about 15 minutes we finally get the GPS and google maps to work, turn around and head the other way it says. It was really good having some direction again, but the map sent us into the middle of nowhere, it was dark scary and freezing cold. A good hour into driving, in some very dense forest on a mountainside, Nathan starts screaming and swerves the car to the right, my first thought was some man was running out of the forest with an axe, but then I noticed a Moose about the same size as the 4WD chevy we were driving. After almost dying by moose or tree or what ever would have happened if that moose hit us, we kept driving down the mountain at a rate of 40Kmph. I finally fell asleep after having a massive adrenalin rush from the near accident, I vaguely remember waking up at points hearing Ben and Chris (who took over driving at some point) talking about needing to do a U turn's, nothing new from us boys.

So after what was ment to be a 5-6 hour drive we arrived at our hostel in Budapest, at 5am, that's 10 hours of driving. Good times.