From Austria we drove to Hungary and set up camp in a lovely wooded campsite which has a disused tram station converted into a bar/ restaurant. Next to it is a chair lift which elevates you to a lookout point at the top of a hill with great views of Budapest and the surrounding valleys. Budapest boasts many beautiful buildings and is a pleasant city to walk around though much of it is graffitied and the buildings suffer badly from a lack of maintenance.

Another full day on the truck took us into Romania where the roads begin to deteriorate and more hills emerge. I was instantly fonder of Romania as you take a step back in time and seem an older way of life reappear. All the houses are smaller and have gardens with chickens and veggie patches. My tractor fetish is well fed here as there are so many old tractors dotted around, they always make me grin!! The houses themselves seem to defy gravity as the walls and rooves seem to be caving in yet the whole village is still standing! It's an alluring country, away from the cities. We set up camp in a farmers field bear Transylvania airport. As usual all the locals stop to stare as we go past, one little boy even did us a crazy little belly dance!

Next was on to Bucharest where we had our first evening together sitting outside without shivering and we had a wee party for the first truck birthday. 

We're now in Bulgaria for a day off in Veliko Tarnovo. The beer's cheap, the landscape is green with rolling hills and the weather is temperamental. I was fortunate to sleep through the wind last night but a couple of camping buddies were out in the middle of the night tending to their tent which was making a bid for freedom. It's been counteracted by a beautiful day today so we've been for a couple of hours walk. Still breaking myself back into the blogging, it's been a while since I've done this!