Subject: Post: Yesterday was a kind of long day. After finally crossing the border from Turkey to Bulgaria after 3 hours we started our slow journey towards Romania. The first few kilometers were quite fine, and there was no traffic at all. After maybe 100 kilometers there was suddenly a closed road due to roadworks, and we had to return almost 20km back and use the Shipka Pass road, a small mountain road going the same direction as the main road. They had no signs of the roadwork before, no idea what the f*ck they had been thinking, closing the main road and having direction signs to it all over the country.<p>While we started driving up the Shipka Pass to 1.2km altitude, the darkness started to fall. There was a lot of big trucks on the road, and they could not drive faster than maybe 20km per hour on the mountains. So, we spent a few hours in darkness following the really slow trucks on the small curvy roads. In one of the pictures below you can see how the road looked like on the GPS map..<p>Also the condition of the other roads was really bad, they were full of holes and bumps. Around 1 at the night we finally got into Romania, and followed a decent road to Bucharest. We found our familiar hostel Butterfly Villa easily around 3am, felt like being at home to return here once again :)<p>Seems like we will be spending one more night in Bucharest, as the traffic out of the city is really crowded at fridays and we have a few friends to meet in here. Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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