And its goodbye to Taffy!
Meet Taffy II. !! Entering Montenegro you are immediately struck by how crowded it is, how much new development is going on, the many road works and the prosperity of the place. Again, a simple line on the map makes so much difference to a persons life. Kotor is a UNESCO world heritage walled town perfectly preserved with narrow paved streets, tall houses, churches and naturally an enormous castle sitting above it on the side of the mountain. It is at the end of what Montenegro calls the most southerly fjord in europe, but is in fact a Ria (a steep sided sunken valley flooded by the sea) not...
Read MoreRain rain go away!
We turned up at the station at about 9:20 and an hour and forty minutes later the train turned up! Fortunately Zagreb isn’t the largest of cities to visit and we easily walked around all the main sights in the afternoon. You can see a grand city struggling to get out in the centre with little evidence of the horrid communist concrete monstrosities. A number of the older buildings plaster is falling off and in some empty shop windows, signs in English, just small enough to make you wander over to have a look at them warn you of the danger of falling tiles! But many of the buildings have...
Read MoreLeaving the EU
After the successful catendectomy we drove on to Ljubliana and for someones benefit I feel obliged to point out it is the capital of Slovenia not Estonia! No names but you know who you are Ali. Crossing the border we began to lose the German Motorhomes (not that they were following us or anything) and we weren’t surprised when we arrived at the campsite to be joined by a young British couple. We were however surprised when another British couple turned up in there caravan – they must have been at least in their 70’s. That made 4 brits on a campsite, we haven’t seen...
Read MoreIs that a cat?
We left Würzburg and began on our route south towards Georgia, Armenia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Georgia (again) before coming back to Europe. There is something ominous about our destination this year and that could be that the list of countries above also spells GARAGE! We had driven a few kilometres out of Würzburg before we noticed the noise. It was a weird screaming from the engine – a bit like we’d got a cat stuck inside the gearbox. Uh oh. Just the sound of the new part bedding in perhaps? By the time we reached Munich the cat was in agony and clearly wasn’t bedding in...
Read MoreLast problem before Georgia!
Well the overland brigade will tell you time and time again that newer truck Chassis are a nightmare because of the electronics and computers and we were beginning to agree with them after our spate of dashboard errors. But, we thought, what if the errors we get are genuine and its the garages in the UK that are failing to understand the diagnostics properly? One more visit to a MAN dealer then! The dealer in Wurzburg was very swish compared to Norwich. Lots of new workshop bays and engineers who could actually speak German and English, as opposed to the English variety who spoke a kind of...
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