Busy times continue! I just arrived here in Bucharest after three days of driving. When I was finally done with moving all our stuff to Hollola and cleaning up the old apartment I drove from Hollola to Helsinki to catch an early 8:30 ferry to Tallinn. From Tallinn I drove to northern Poland through Latvia and Lithuania on day 1 then on day 2 I drove from there to northern Romania through Poland, Slovakia and Hungary and on day 3 from there to Bucharest.
Travel times:
Day 1: 18h (13h of driving)
Day 2: 17h (16h of driving)
Day 3: 7.5h (all driving)
I usually have huge problems staying awake while driving, but this time I had almost none. I decided to try how effective energy drinks are and apparently they worked. And didn't even drink a lot of them: half a liter every day. I only felt sleepy occasionally and somehow the feeling was a lot easier to get rid of than normally.
The Via Baltica road hadn't changed much since we drove back to Finland from Switzerland but now there were almost no road works. I had one of my very few breaks at the shore of the Baltic sea in Latvia and it was as beautiful as ever! Somehow I really like the dry sandy beach with pine trees growing all around. I have to admit that I don't remember much about driving in Poland. I guess I was in a kind of trance while driving :L. The autumn colors in Slovakian mountains were absolutely stunning and I probably should have stopped to take a couple of photos there. Hungarian village roads were in pretty bad condition but things got better when I found bigger ones. Inna's colleagues had told her that the roads in Romania are awful but I couldn't disagree more. Apart from a couple of pot holes I didn't find anything to complain about and I was thoroughly enjoying the brightly colored scenery in the Carpathians.
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